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The Adventure of the Cardboard Box By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Read The Adventure of the Cardboard Box By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle online In choosing a few typical cases which illustrate the remarkable mental qualities of my friend, Sherlock Holmes, I have endeavoured, as far as possible, to select those which presented the minimum of sensationalism, while offering a fair…
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New Rose hotel by William Gibson
Read New Rose hotel by William Gibson online Seven rented nights in this coffin, Sandii. New Rose Hotel. How I want you now. Sometimes I hit you. Replay it so slow and sweet and mean, Ican almost feel it. Sometimes I take your little automatic out of my bag,run my…
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The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
Read The Veldt by Ray Bradbury online “George, I wish you’d look at the nursery.” “Whataa’s wrong with it?” “I don’t know.” “Well, then.” “I just want you to look at it, is all, or call a psychologist in to look at it.”“What would a psychologist want with a nursery?”“You…
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The Hunting Of The Snark An Agony In Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll
PREFACE If – and the thing is wildly possible – the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief butinstructive poem, it would be based, I feel convinced, on the line (inp.4)“Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes.”In view of this painful possibility,…
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English poems by Francis Bret Harte
Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902) At The Hacienda Know I not whom thou mayst be Carved upon this olive-tree,– “Manuela of La Torre,”– For around on broken walls Summer sun and spring rain falls, And in vain the low wind calls “Manuela of La Torre.” Of that song no words remain…
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The Dryad by Hans Christian Andersen
Read The Dryad by Hans Christian Andersen (1868) online WE are travelling to Paris to the Exhibition. Now we are there. That was a journey, a flight without magic. We flew on the wings of steam over the sea and across the land. Yes, our time is the time of…
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Love Of Life by Jack London
Love Of Life(First printed in McClure’s Magazine, Vol. 26, Dec., 1905)“This out of all will remain —They have lived and have tossed:So much of the game will be gain,Though the gold of the dice has been lost.”They limped painfully down the bank, and once the foremost of the two men…
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The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe. The Cask of Amontillado The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I bestcould, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowedrevenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul,will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to athreat. At length I would be…
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Traveling with the dead by Barbara Hambly
Barbara Hambly. Traveling with the dead Chapter OneAll Souls and black rain, and cold that passed like needles through flesh and clothing to scrape the bones inside. Sunday night in Charing Cross Station, voices racketing in the vaults of glass and ironwork overhead like ball bearings in a steel drum.…
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Read “Lady into fox” by David Garnett online
David Garnett. Lady into fox Wonderful or supernatural events are not so uncommon, rather they areirregular in their incidence. Thus there may be not one marvel to speak ofin a century, and then often enough comes a plentiful crop of them; monstersof all sorts swarm suddenly upon the earth, comets…
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The October Game by Ray Bradbury read online
Ray Bradbury. The October Game He put the gun back into the bureau drawer and shut the drawer.No, not that way. Louise wouldn’t suffer. It was very importantthat this thing have, above all duration. Duration throughimagination. How to prolong the suffering? How, first of all, to bringit about? Well.The man…
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The Boogeyman by Stephen King
Stephen King .The Boogeyman ‘I came to you because I want to tell my story,’ the man on Dr Harper’s couch was saying. The man was Lester Billings from Waterbury, Connecticut. According to the history taken from Nurse Vickers, he was twenty-eight, employed by an industrial firm in New York, divorced,…
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The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe. The Masque of the Red Death The “Red Death” had long devastated the country. Nopestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Bloodwas its Avatar and its seal–the redness and the horror ofblood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, andthen profuse bleeding at the pores,…
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Fragments of A Hologram Rose by William Gibson
William Gibson. Fragments of A Hologram Rose That summer Parker had trouble sleeping.There were power droughts; sudden failures of the delta-inducer brought painfully abrupt returns toconsciousness.To avoid these, he used patch cords, miniature alligator clips, and black tape to wire the inducer to a battery-operated ASP deck. Power loss in…
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Read Nevermore by Henry Lion Oldie online
Henry Lion Oldie. Nevermore Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, “Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said,”art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore — Tell…
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The Story Behind The “Foundation” by Isaac Asimov
The Story Behind The “Foundation” by Isaac Asimov The date was August 1, 1941. World War II had been raging for two years. France had fallen, the Battle of Britain had been fought, and the Soviet Union had just been invaded by Nazi Germany. The bombing of Pearl Harbor was…
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The Two-Centimeter Demon by Isaac Asimov read online
The Two-Centimeter Demon by Isaac Asimov I met George at a literrary convention a good many years ago, and was struck by the peculiar look of innocence and candor upon his round middle-aged face. He was the kind of person, I decided at once, to whom you would give your…
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The Great Sea-Serpent A New Wonder Story by Hans Christian Andersen
The Great Sea-Serpent A New Wonder Story by Hans Christian Andersen THERE was a little fish—a salt-water fish—of good family: I don’t recall the name—you will have to get that from the learned people. This little fish had eighteen hundred brothers and sisters all just as old as he; they…
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One Night of Song by Issac Asimov
Read online One Night of Song by Issac Asimov As it happens, I have a friend who hints, sometimes, that he can call up spirits from the vasty deep. Or at least one spirit—a tiny one, with strictly limited powers. He talks about it sometimes but only after he has…
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The gift of the magi by O. Henry read online
The gift of the magi by O. Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent…
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Read The prophet by Henry Lion Oldie
Henry Lion Oldie. The prophet “Arise, oh prophet, hark and see, Perform that will o’mine! And wandering through lands and seas Burn hearts by verbal fire.” A. S. Pushkin Antisthenes took the test-tube and examined the fluid against the light. The elixir was dark-golden, thick, resembling old Tokay. Was thisthe…
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C J Moore – Alissa (read)
Alissa is reading. Her father calls to her. ‘Alissa! Alissa!’ Alissa runs to the door. There is a car outside the house. Her father is talking to a fat man. ‘This is Alissa. She reads all day,’ her father says. The two men laugh. ‘Alissa,’ her father says. ‘My friend…
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The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (read online)
The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells [1898] I The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The fire burned brightly, and the…
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One Night of Song Issac Asimov
As it happens, I have a friend who hints, sometimes, that he can call up spirits from the vasty deep. Or at least one spirit—a tiny one, with strictly limited powers. He talks about it sometimes but only after he has reached his fourth scotch and soda. It’s a delicate…
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SOMEBODY’S LUGGAGE by Charles Dickens (read and download)
Author: Charles Dickens SOMEBODY’S LUGGAGE CHAPTER I–HIS LEAVING IT TILL CALLED FOR The writer of these humble lines being a Waiter, and having come of a family of Waiters, and owning at the present time five brothers who are all Waiters, and likewise an only sister who is a Waitress,…
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The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (read online)
In the third week of November, in the year 1895, a dense yellow fog settled down upon London. From the Monday to the Thursday I doubt whether it was ever possible from our windows in Baker Street to see the loom of the opposite houses. The first day Holmes had…
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The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (read)
In recording from time to time some of the curious experiences and interesting recollections which I associate with my long and intimate friendship with Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I have continually been faced by difficulties caused by his own aversion to publicity. To his sombre and cynical spirit all popular applause…
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The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens (read online)
The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I – Part The First Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought. It was fought upon a long summer day when the waving grass was green. Many a…
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THE CHIMES by Charles Dickens (read online)
THE CHIMES Charles Dickens CHAPTER I–First Quarter. Here are not many people–and as it is desirable that a story- teller and a story-reader should establish a mutual understanding as soon as possible, I beg it to be noticed that I confine this observation neither to young people nor to little…
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THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND by H. G. WELLS (read)
THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND H. G. WELLS Three hundred miles and more from Chimborazo, one hundred from the snows of Cotopaxi, in the wildest wastes of Ecuador’s Andes, there lies that mysterious mountain valley, cut off from the world of men, the Country of the Blind. Long years ago…
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