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Short stories around 65 minutes

Explore captivating short stories around 65 minutes and indulge in the rich narratives of this curated collection. Immerse yourself in a world of imagination.

Rounding Cape Horn

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...

55 min read · Rating: G · Read story

The Inmost Light

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...

61 min read · Rating: R · Read story

Herbert West: Reanimator

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...

61 min read · Rating: R · Read story

The Call of Cthulhu

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...

59 min read · Rating: R · Read story

The Colour Out of Space

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...

61 min read · Rating: R · Read story

The Thing on the Doorstep

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...

55 min read · Rating: R · Read story

A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family

I wept more bitterly, because my father had never seemed to love, and I learned that my sister was dead. When I reached the age of sixteen, my mother's plans began to develop, and we moved to...

73 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

An Adventure of Hardress Fitzgerald, a Royalist Captain

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...

60 min read · Rating: R · Read story

Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess

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...

69 min read · Rating: R · Read story

The Last Heir of Castle Connor

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...

70 min read · Rating: R · Read story

The Murdered Cousin

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...

67 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance

A rather tall and reasonably good-looking young man visited Wilsthorpe for the first time, and admired the house and grounds with the bailiff. He was delighted with the pleasure Humphreys showed,...

55 min read · Rating: G · Read story