Short stories around 17 minutes

Morse crossed the St. Jude grounds just as the school was being dismissed, hoping Aldo Cummings wouldn't collar him. When Robert got home, he would make a new cardboard keyboard for him to practice...

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...

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...

High up on a swelling mount, crowned with grassy summit, stands the old chateau of my ancestors. My parents I never knew, and I spent my childhood in poring over the ancient tomes that filled the...

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...