Short stories around 12 minutes

Danny looked at the gun on the table and presented a mask to his enemy, cocking one eyebrow and saying, "I. Danny wet his lips and looked across at Tigo, who was studying him with large brown...

Gogol is a lively satirist who excels in familiar scenes, but he too often forgets to subordinate them to the main action of the story. Gogol's characters are almost entirely confined to idiots,...

Dr. Johnson was born on the family Estate in Devonshire, and became acquainted with Mr. Addison and Dr. Swift. He was a full, pursy Man, very ill drest, and of slovenly Aspect. I saw Johnson very...

Kuranes saw the city in the valley, and the seacoast beyond, but ceased to write. Three nights afterward he came again to Celephais, and saw the village that was asleep or dead, and the abyss down...

I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, and I have discovered myself half sucked into a slimy expanse of hellish black mire. I sat thinking or brooding in the stranded boat for...

Crawford Tillinghast changed into a maniac after answering my remonstrances. He drove me from his laboratory and his house in a burst of fanatical rage. Within twenty-four hours, a machine near the...

A man was unconscious in a railway station, so I told him to come home with me and be my teacher and leader in unfathomable mysteries. We studied in the tower studio chamber of the old manor-house...

Sheehan's Pool Room is not a nice place, but there was a man named Old Bugs who shared the squalor and filth. He was not pleasing to look upon and made remarks which the folk of Sheehan's deemed...

Ermengarde Stubbs, a beauteous blonde daughter of Hiram Stubbs, was sought in matrimony by two ardent lovers, Squire Hardman and Jack Manly. Jack would go to the great city and make a fortune to...

The horrible conclusion: hopelessly lost in the vast and labyrinthine recess of the Mammoth Cave, starving and determined to part with my life at as high a price as I could command. I became very...

De Quincey was drawn back into Asia and took opium in the year of the plague. He was partly delirious and experienced an overdose. Suddenly my pain ceased, and I began to associate the pounding...

A grave, intelligent-looking man showed me into the attic chamber. I drew a pocket electric light out of my pocket and nervously tested its flashes, but the newcomer did not speak. A thin, dark man...