Short stories around 45 minutes

The full-rigged American ship Sagamore was flying along in the South Atlantic under a stiff top-gallant breeze when Will Hartley and Frank Wilbur were taking their evening constitutional when they...

The homeward passage from New Zealand is made via Cape Horn the. The Sunrise was beaten on the home stretch by twenty-four hours by Dick Lewis. Captain Maxwell sent Dick Lewis to the quarter-deck...

Archie was firm that Peter should come and skate too, and Dahlia couldn't possibly get through Calais and Pontarlier without declaring Peter. Simpson hastily disclaimed any intention of marrying...

The wise traveller travels only in imagination. The Japanese take salt in their coffee, and the people there speak different languages. My friend spent twenty years on the stage before deciding to...

My father, Major-General Wyn Leicester, a distinguished officer of artillery, succumbed five years ago to a complicated liver complaint acquired in the deadly climate of India. My brother Francis,...

Robert Blake was killed by lightning. Blake returned to Providence in the winter of 1934-5 and settled down to write and paint, but soon felt restless. The vacant church was in a state of great...

Arthur left a silent motor-car and tramped up Tempest Mountain with two armed companions, where they dragged a wide four-poster bedstead from another room, where they discovered a man who possessed...

On 16 July 1923, I moved into Exham Priory after the last workman had finished his labours. After the war, my fortunes were extinguished and my whole existence changed by the burning of...

The world's greatest master of the terrible and the bizarre was obliged to pass a particular house. People died there in alarmingly great numbers. In my childhood, the shunned house was vacant,...

Derby shot six bullets through the head of his best friend and gave up illustrating a book of Edward's demoniac poems. Derby went to Miskatonic University in Arkham, met Asenath Waite, and meant to...

My cousin Tom Ludlow preferred the Church and died early, so we took up abode in an unoccupied house in Aungier Street. When I complained of uneasy nights and disturbed sleep, Tom burst open my...

A young fellow named Ned Moran provoked an ill-conditioned fellow of herculean strength into an altercation, and caused Larkin to be struck with a paralytic stroke. He was forced to beg alms of...