A local investigating magistrate unsuccessfully tries to explain that it is wrong to take nuts off the railroad track to a peasant, Grigoryev, who simply cannot see why he's to be...
A Drama In The Air (illustrated)
"A Drama in the Air" is an adventure short story by Jules Verne. Just as the narrator starts the ascent of his balloon, a stranger jumps into its car. The...
The Story Of Doctor Dolittle
The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts (1920), written and illustrated by the British author Hugh...
The Prodigal Girl
Betty Thornton knew what she wanted, and it wasn’t her father’s boring lifestyle. So when Betty’s father insists on moving the family to a farm in Vermont, she...
North And South (illustrated By Conterrimo)
North and South is a social novel published in 1855 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. The novel is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in...
How To Love A Cowboy
PeteThe Killarny Estate is getting ready for the Waters Derby. I still remember little Sara Waters and how she’d grabbed and kissed me in the barn on the Waters property...
Sunlit Dispositions: (a Hard Boiled Space Opera)
Sometimes, only Alex will do.A space station explodes, and the Sunlit Spirit Empire calls in Alex, Free Troubleshooter extraordinaire. No last name needed.Alex wades into the...
The Case Of Miss Elliott
In the title story, a young matron from a convalescent home is found dead in a quiet Maida Vale street. The Daily Telegraph ran an article headed “Murder or Suicide”...
Hypnos (illustrated)
"Hypnos" is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft, penned in March 1922 and first published in the May 1923 issue of National Amateur. The book tells the story of a man called...
Ticket No. 9672
Hulda Hansen awaits the return of her betrothed, Ole Kamp, who promised her great fortune after his voyage aboard the fishing boat, Viking. When the Viking fails to return and is...
