Category： Short Stories Author：novel
On a march evening, at eight o’clock, Backhouse, the medium — a fast-rising star in the psychic world — was ushered into the study at Prolands, the Hampstead residence of Montague Faull.
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Category： Short Stories Author：novel
Savinien–Hercule de Cyrano Bergerac, swashbuckler, hero, poet, and philosopher, came of an old and noble family, richer in titles than in estates. His grandfather still kept most of the titles, and was called Savinien de Cyrano Mauvieres Bergerac Saint–Laurent. He was secretary to the King in 1571, and held other important offices.
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Category： Short Stories Author：novel
it was a Phantom Ship that made some voyages to different parts of the world which were recorded in early numbers of Charles Dickens’s “Household Words.” As preface to Richard Hakluyt’s records of the first endeavour of our bold Elizabethan mariners to find North–West Passage to the East, let me repeat here that old voyage of mine from...
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Category： Short Stories Author：novel
The other day, in looking over my papers, I found in my desk the following copy of a letter, sent by me a year since to an old school acquaintance:—
Category： Short Stories Author：novel
Tells the story of a small clerk on trial for no apparent reason, trying to escape, but finally can't escape the power of tyranny, finally was secretly executed.
