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id: 16726
title: Four Weird Tales
author: Blackwood, Algernon
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  Jones felt his heart leap out towards this man, this old friend, tried voice of his guide, and as the clerk turned to reply he saw his face was and night, and he knew he must acquit himself like a man when the moment in the streets, a careless-looking sort of man, who never came face to The Manager saw the smile on his face, and gave him a long steady look Something in the man''s face, or voice, or manner--the doctor hardly knew For some days Henriot saw little of the man who came from Birmingham and woman''s heart knew long-forgotten things--the thought kept beating up black, with eyes that stared across the sand into a world of things She said it, lifting her face above him a little, so that her eyes For the first time in his life, Henriot knew it at close quarters,


id: 20387
title: A Thin Ghost and Others
author: James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)
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  like it, after all," said Mary, some minutes later. fine morning," said her uncle, as he closed the door. and I''ll take you there.'' ''No time like the present,'' I said at once, ''Mrs. Maple,'' he said, and Mary ran off--no one, I am sure, steps like "''Have you the keys of these things, Mrs. Maple?'' said Uncle Oldys. been thinking of.'' ''Saul was the name,'' said Uncle Oldys. grass at his heels: and one night him to come right up to old Mr. Simpkins''s window that gives on the yard and press his face up against you the opportunity to see what it looks like at night time. A thing like a man, all over hair, and two great eyes to it?'' "I don''t know," he said, "if you think with me, sir; but every think it,'' he said, and he shook himself like a man who is displeased


id: 14154
title: The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance
author: Birkhead, Edith
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  vogue of the Gothic Romance and Tale of Terror towards the close the marvellous of old story with the natural of modern novels." purpose; critical estimate; _Valperga_; _The Last Man_; Mrs. Shelley''s short tales; Polidori''s _Ernestus Berchtold_, a stories; _Rookwood_, an attempt to bring the Radcliffe romance up romance in the history of fiction; the terrors of actual life in assigning _Sir Bertrand_ to Miss Aikin,[31] afterwards Mrs. Barbauld, though the story is not included in _The Works of Anne instinctive terror of the dark and the unseen, upon which Mrs. Radcliffe bases many of her most moving incidents. In Mrs. Radcliffe''s stories, the shadow fades and disappears just the novels of Mrs. Radcliffe, and "Monk" Lewis. As the novel of terror passes from the hands of Mrs. Radcliffe to In his later novels Ainsworth abandoned the manner of Mrs. Radcliffe, but did not fail to make use of the motive of terror


id: 26702
title: Studies in love and in terror
author: Lowndes, Marie Belloc
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  And then, for the first time that day, Jacques de Wissant began to feel Then he turned and looked benignantly at Jacques de Wissant; the man The old man did not look into Jacques de Wissant''s face while he uttered Suddenly Mrs. Elwyn again spoke, but she did not turn round and look But Charles Nagle''s wife, the sweet young woman who for so long had been Catherine again looked up at her husband, and their old friend saw that cruel enemy, and, what was especially untoward, a close relation, Mrs. Felwake, own sister to Charles Nagle''s dead father, often uttered it. was leaving he had said a word to his host: "I feel worried about Mrs. Barlow"--Agnes had heard him through the window. At last, after what seemed a very long time, the doctor came out of Mrs. Archdale''s house and began walking quickly down the street.


id: 4046
title: The Garden of Survival
author: Blackwood, Algernon
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  IT will surprise and at the same time possibly amuse you to know that one, but, I believe, is very natural: her physical beauty gave me singing the love-songs of some far-off day beside her native nature of that Beauty which is truth and love--in the source of our Those who loved beauty and lived it in their lives, follow that same That "somebody was pleased" each time Beauty offered a wisdom I Beauty, the channel of my inspiration, but this time the old sweet I was aware of sight; of eyes in which "burning memory lights love Beauty and love both visited me; I believe that truth and wisdom man as she had loved the little boy, sat one, not wondering perhaps Beauty had touched me, Wisdom come to birth; and Love, whispering beauty was truth, hers was unselfish love. felt this impersonal worship which is love of beauty, they are linked


id: 537
title: Tales of Terror and Mystery
author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
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  He said that he was shivering and looked like a man thousand-foot level, looking like little black swallows against the "Look here, Burger," said Kennedy, "I do wish that you would confide in "Wait a bit, Burger," said Kennedy, laying his hand upon the other''s "Go on, man, light the candle!" said Kennedy impatiently. "Good evening," said Douglas Stone, when the butler had closed the "Come in!" said my relative, and opened the door. young man came out of the door and walked swiftly down the street. "Ask Lady Rossiter to have the goodness to step this way," said his "Perhaps you are not aware," said he, "that I am a medical man like "Now then, sir, look sharp, the train is going," said he. "Well, he must come in again," said young Morton, and passed through "Do come round," it said; "the matter is becoming more and more


id: 10659
title: Three More John Silence Stories
author: Blackwood, Algernon
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  heard the Brothers'' voices talking of the things beyond this life as For one brief second there passed into the man''s eyes a look that made said the musician suggestively, looking across at a man whom Harris had Harris feeling his way like a man in a dream. went up to his room, thinking in a hazy, dream-like way of the words "The Little People lit the fire for me," cried Maloney, looking natural "And as for you, Joan," went on the happy man, "you look like the spirit A desire to ask questions was stopped in me by a swift glance from Dr. Silence, and I suddenly understood in some vague way that they were moment he moved off to his tent, Maloney looked up at me and began to He paused a moment and looked into Maloney''s eyes. "First--the women''s tent," he said low, looking sharply at Maloney, "and


id: 9629
title: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories
author: James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)
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  things like that: and then I came away: but he wasn''t looking a bit and," he said, looking round and whispering as if he hardly liked to hear said, ''you know about old things; tell me what that is.'' My friend opened ''George,'' said Mrs Anstruther, ''I think you had better take the car to sorry to disappoint you, sir,'' said the young man, ''but the book is out.'' good girl," he said after a time,--"you wait, and I''ll tell you as much said the man, ''when I see Squire Eldred setting reading in his book, and On the way home the Secretary''s wife said, ''I do hope that horrible man ''Do you know this part of the country at all, Mr Humphreys?'' said Mrs evenings--looking over papers and books and so on--for some time to come, ''Are you a great gardener, Miss Cooper?'' said Mr Humphreys.


id: 10832
title: Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
author: Hodgson, William Hope
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  door of the Grey Room would be heard in the dead of night to open, and the old butler''s voice (he had not said a word for the last hour) came I got to the door, and the old butler gave back a step, in a sort of "I returned to my room, locked the door, and went to bed. the bed; after which we went out, and I locked the door; for the room was "By this time, the night had come; though the room was very light with "I took a last look ''round the great hall, and saw that the two big As I came near to the open door, I heard men''s "''Yes,'' he said--''watched outside of the door of the room at nights, and bedroom door open a little until the dawn came in, as there was certainly As I came opposite the door of my mother''s room, I saw that it


id: 12124
title: The Well The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 4.
author: Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)
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  "Quite Venetian," said Jem Benson, still looking out of the window. "Talk about something else," said Benson, slowly; "your pleasantries are enough to give them to me," said Benson, very slowly. "That''s how it was done," said Benson, for the girl''s benefit as he took "You will give me those letters?" said Benson, suggestively, as the girl "Good-night," said Benson, in a deep voice. "I know you''re very fond of sitting on the coping," said the man slowly, "I never saw them," said Benson, with startling bitterness. "I was startled," she said, slowly, putting her hands on his shoulder. "You shall see," said Benson. "You had better come in," said Benson, very quietly. "Just to try the air, sir," said George, following his master''s glance, "Hold hard, sir," said George, quickly, laying his hand on his arm, "you "I''ll call out when I reach the water," said Benson; "then pay out three "Yes," said Benson, slowly.


id: 8486
title: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
author: James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)
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  ''Good heavens!'' said the little man, whom the suggestion seemed to throw ''My good man!'' he said again and again, ''your book is worth far more than An evening light shone on the building, making the window-panes glow like ''I''m twelve years old next birthday, sir,'' said Stephen. ''I''ll tell you what,'' said Williams: ''I''ll take the picture across to old looked at it from the park, you saw on the right a great old ash-tree windows of the building, when Sir Matthew stopped and said: ''Well, Sir Richard,'' she said, ''you know that there is but the one room Sir Richard turned round and saw a man in black in the doorway, who the house, the Bishop said, pointing to the window of the West Room: ''My room has three windows in the daytime,'' said Anderson with ''Do you call having an extra bed in your room roughing it, Parkins?'' said


id: 10624
title: Three John Silence Stories
author: Blackwood, Algernon
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  "I don''t know what you mean by his ''psychical region,''" said the doctor, Dr. Silence opened his eyes for a second and looked at her. Smoke, coming a little later, pretending he came by chance, looked from window, and lay watching the room with wide-open eyes, in which lurked For the first time that night John Silence hesitated; the thought of firelight he looked like a great yellow-haired wolf, silent, eyes John Silence, who heard him speak of his experience more than once, said "Like a cat, you said?" interrupted John Silence, quickly catching him "But when she looked at me, you know," said Vezin, with that little "I think, Colonel Wragge," replied John Silence impressively, "that we "Haunted House of Life more likely," he replied, and a look came into and the Colonel and Dr. Silence came down three steps at a time, leaving


id: 40510
title: The Watcher, and other weird stories
author: Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
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  "Tell me, then," said Barton, abruptly, "if a man be in reasonable fear "My dear sir," said Doctor Macklin, after a brief pause, "I fear you proceeded from the passage upon which Barton''s chamber-door opened, finally witnessed the door open, and my uncle enter the room. "Well," said my uncle, after a little time, "we now cease to speak upon "Come in," said I; and my uncle entered the room. sound was repeated at the second door of my room--that which opened upon "Is that a man of trust?" said Vanderhausen, turning towards Schalken, "I desire," said the mysterious gentleman, "to place in your hands at "Do you know, uncle," said Rose, "when I saw him standing at the door, "This way, your honour," said my little conductress; at the same time, "You must not, my love," said Lord Glenfallen, "imagine this place you were coming into the room," said the old woman.


id: 35517
title: The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations
author: Machen, Arthur
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  "My dear sir," said Dyson, "I will give you the task of the literary man "My dear sir," said Dyson, "I always like to be accurate. A man came out of a rough-looking house and took the horses, and we A young man, dressed like an English country squire, came and stood at "You black-hearted devil," said the man at my side, "we know you well brother is a somewhat young-looking man; he is pale, has small black "Now the seal," said Professor Gregg, and he handed me the black stone, comment; and later in the day I saw him helping the old man who worked "Professor Gregg," I said quietly, "it is time that I knew something of The old man came slowly into the room, and the servant shut the door "I have had it a long time," said the old man, in feeble terror. "The young man with spectacles," said Mr. Dyson.


id: 45964
title: Day and Night Stories
author: Blackwood, Algernon
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  eyes filled suddenly with tears; she looked into his face and nodded. years had crumbled to a little thing, and at thirty-five he felt turned back into the room; and at that instant a low sound like a The great hand swept with tenderness each face, lingered a moment on Binovitch, his arms wide, his bird-like face thrust forward, had Behind him came a great thing down the air, Whenever his face came into my mind I began to think. liked me and would tell me things later, all in his own good time. "It''s all right," said Arthur; "just keep an open mind and a heart great shock of hair, looking more like a column of light than a human voice like running wind and water, "and I found eternal life. street, I just took Arthur''s hand and shook it and said good-night and


