Short stories around 15 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...

The steward asked the mate and bo's'un how the two negroes had managed to escape. The St. Lawrence was a neat little ship, and Captain Fairley was one of the finest men I ever met. His daughter...

Captain Litchfield, keeper of the life-saving station, thought of the Peruvian as a bitter north-easter raged outside. The men at Fourth Cliff Station sighted a large brig close-hauled and...

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,...

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...

You ask me to explain why I am afraid of a draught of cool air; I can only say that in the spring of 1923 I had a heart attack in the hall room above mine. Dr. Muoz was a man of birth, cultivation,...

Sir Arthur Jermyn burned himself after seeing a boxed object from Africa, and was placed in a madhouse. His wild stories of Africa led to his friends to deem him mad, and he died three years...

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...

George Birch was crass, thoughtless, careless, and liquorish. He changed his business and acquired a limitation, yet never discussed the case. Birch began transferring bodies one disagreeable April...

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...