Short stories around 62 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...

In autumn Mr. Charles Salisbury was hard up and determined to embark in literature. He succeeded to a small income. London has nothing to be ashamed of in the way of crime, but Harlesden as an...

Herbert West, who was my friend in college and after life, believed that artificial reanimation of the dead could be done with fresh human bodies. We found the new grave and began work soon after...

Theosophists concluded after perplexing debate that some obscure lesion of the heart was responsible for the death, and resolved to search out the eccentric sculptor responsible for this apparent...

West of Arkham are wild hills and valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. The old folk have gone away and foreigners do not like to live there. The professors tested the meteorite that...

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...

Hardress Fitzgerald's life was chequered by many strange incidents. After the fatal battle of the Boyne, I came up in disguise to Dublin and laid quiet, going forth from my lodgings but little and...

Sir Arthur T - - n was ruinously addicted to gaming, and was examined by Hugh Tisdall, who stated that he had won back his original loss and four thousand pounds in addition. Sir Arthur Faulkner's...

In a sequestered district of the county of Limerick, there stood my early life, some forty years ago, a strong stone building, half castle, half farm-house. O'Mara turned upon Dwyer and gazed upon...

The decay of ancient grandeur interests even the most unconcerned spectator, as evidences of greatness still exist in Ireland. The. became close and confidential companions with young O'Connor and...

My mother died when I was an infant, and shortly before my birth my uncle was visited by a gentleman of loose who stated that he had won £4,000. My father received a letter from a person signing...