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- The Night Wire (1926)There is something ungodly about these night wire jobs. You sit up here on the top floor of a skyscraper and listen in to the whispers of a civilization. New York, London, Calcutta, Bombay, Singapore—they’re your next-door neighbors after the streetlights go dim and the world has gone to sleep…
- The Stillness (1918)He had never been fond of people. Even in those days back there in the city before he had done the thing that was wrong he had mistrusted them. And after it he had run from them. Run wildly and unthinkingly to cover with the fear of them coming on behind him…
- On the Northern Ice (1898)It came to him with a shock that he was not alone. His eyelashes were frosted and his eyeballs blurred with the cold, so at first he thought it might be an illusion. But when he had rubbed his eyes hard, he made sure that not very far in front of him was a long white skater in fluttering garments…
- The House That Was Not (1898)As she approached, the little shack waned like a shadow before her. It faded and dimmed before her eyes…
- The Haunted Rock (1871)Palsied with horror, I stood leaning on the chair to which I had clung for support, every nerve strained in agonised expectation… but minute after minute went by, marked by the sound of the revolving lights, and all remained as still as the grave…
- An Alpine Divorce (1896)She faced him with a light he had never before seen in her eyes—a light of insanity and of hatred…
- The Cold Embrace (1860)Suddenly some one, something from behind him, puts two cold arms round his neck, and clasps its hands on his breast. And yet there is no one behind him…
- The Man Who Was Not on the Passenger List (1892)No. 18 was not a popular passenger. People seemed instinctively to shrink from him. One forenoon the chief officer entered the captain’s room with a pale face…
- Rose Rose (1911)He felt human fingers drawn lightly across the back of his neck, just above the collar. He turned round with a sudden start. There was nobody there…
- The Parasitic Hand (1926)The parasitic hand remained active; in fact, it seemed to be animated with a fighting spirit. It seized the wrist of one of the surgical nurses during the preliminaries and held it in a relentless grip, so that she fainted in horror…
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