Short stories around 8 minutes

Joseph Burns was dead, and the people greatly regretted his death. After the funeral services, a man with black hair and side whiskers asked to see Miss Dobson. At 3.20 o'clock in the morning, Mr...

The gods of earth have betaken themselves to unknown Kadath and forbid men to come. Barzai the Wise and Atal went out of Hatheg into the stony desert despite the prayers of peasants, and talked of...

Angelo Ricci, Joe Czanek and Manuel Silva called on the Terrible Old Man, who lived all alone in a very ancient house near the sea. The Terrible Old Man is a strange person who keeps a collection...

On there stands an olive grove about the ruins of a villa. Two sculptors lived there, Kalos and Musides, and Saios would remain at home. Musides sought the banquet halls of Tegea at night, whilst...

It has long been vaguely understood that a man's clothes have an effect on his health, but no attempt has yet been made to reduce this knowledge to a systematic form. To treat ailments caused by...

Mr. Scalper sits writing in the reporters' room of The Daily Eclipse and opens a letter of a correspondent. Mr. Scalper stops abruptly, dashes across the room to the cupboard, and returns to finish...

When I was the Editor of a Correspondence Column, I used to receive heart-broken letters from young men asking for advice and sympathy. I accepted their confidences as under the pledge of a...

I mix a good deal with the Millionaires, I like their faces, their way of living, the things they eat, and their intellectual grasp. I love to walk up and down among them and catch the little...

Jiggins used to take a cold plunge every morning, stand and breathe at an open window for half an hour before dressing, and do Sandow exercises. He spent half the night slinging himself around his...

The progress of science is wonderful, but what I want to speak about is the progress of medicine. A hundred years ago there were no bacilli, ptomaine poisoning, diphtheria, or appendicitis. Rabies...

Lord Oxhead sat gazing fixedly at the library fire, absorbed in his sorrow. Gwendoline Oxhead had thrown herself about the earl's neck and explained that her lover was an American. She placed an...

The Browns and Joneses had been dining together and Jones showed Brown a train he had bought for his son. Jones showed Brown how to fix the rails and said that he had told Edwin Santa Claus was...