A gold prospector Mason, his wife Ruth and their friend Malemute Kid have noticed that their dogs are getting vicious – the dogs watch every food bite they take enviously. Life of ...

From time immemorial, men have trembled and withered before the power of the femme fatale. “Ligeia” is a story about a man, whose meeting with a strange, beautiful, and overly inte ...

C. Auguste Dupin, the amateur detective from “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Mystery of Marie Roget” returns for the last time to solve a mystery involving a stolen letter ...

Inspired by Poe’s own tragic life, the short story clearly presages Freud’s method of psychoanalysis. In a very Fight-club-like plot and situations, “William Wilson” is a journey w ...

"Halloa! Below there!"Unable to sleep one cold winter’s night, a gentleman wanders aimlessly around the countryside and comes across the dark mouth of a railway tunnel. There he sp ...

“The silence was unbroken. I looked round, and the five couriers were gone: so noiselessly that the ghostly mountains might have absorbed them into its eternal snows.”Thought recen ...

“It is a grand thing to be mad”A rich, self-confessed madman meets a poor girl and, wishing to marry her, he puts on a “normal” persona and a fake smile. The girl’s family pushes h ...

“How do you do, ma'am?" said the captain. "I am very glad to see you. I have come a long way to see you.”Who hasn’t dreamt of finding an old bottle between rocks on a beach somewhe ...

When Mr. Julius Slinkton walks into Mr. Sampson’s insurance office to fetch some forms for his friend, Sampson has a strange suspicion that something isn’t quite right. And when Sl ...

“Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?"Nell is a 14-year-old orphan girl who lives with her caring gr ...

After beating up a little boy on Christmas Eve – as you do – Gabriel Grub, a grumpy and mean-spirited gravedigger, goes to dig a grave in the churchyard. His work is interrupted wh ...

Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) on italialainen, ranskalaisesta naturalismista ja erityisesti Émile Zolan teoksista innoituksensa saaneen, verisminä tunnetun kirjallisen suuntauksen tär ...

Emil Gluck was a scientific genius, who had just gone to the electric chair because of the terrible, terrible things he had done between the years 1933 and 1941. However, life had ...

I novellsamlingen På livets skuggsida (1912) möter vi fattigdom och orättvisor i form av lagerarbetaren som förlorar jobbet, kontorskvinnor som drömmer om man och barn och en sömme ...

Jag hade aldrig kunnat tro att ett par fula herrskor kunde få det att pirra i kroppen så pass att jag knappt kunde stå upprätt och kuken så hård att den var nära att sprätta iväg k ...

Nuoranpätkä on Guy de Massaupantin klassinen novelli. Ranskalainen kirjailija Guy de Massaupant tunnustetaan yleisesti yhdeksi novellitaiteen suurista mestareista. Tämä e-kirja sis ...

Det svåraste i våra liv är inte de misstag och fel som vi gjort, nej det allra svåraste är allt det vi inte gjort, allt det olevda . Alla nya och okända vägar som lockade, men som ...

She can see that he is struggling with his tie, and with every failed attempt he grows more and more frustrated. Finding it hard to keep herself from laughing, she offers him her h ...

There he is, William White, the man she has argued with for three years. The man who said Nadia’s book was lousy, the man who has sent her mean reviews from fake accounts. She has ...

He grabbed her hips with his big hands. Pulled her down to his erection. Vanessa stooped forward and placed her hands on his chest. She tried to help him position himself but reali ...

She had an arm between Vanessa’s legs. She twisted her head and saw Ana touching herself. Her own clit. With force, with desperation. With despair. As if it was a matter of life an ...

"She started stroking harder. Rolled her bud between two fingers. Felt him move under it. She looked up. Everything started spinning. The bare-breasted woman gyrated her hips and t ...

It’s the annual Book Fair in Gothenburg. Josefina works for the respected book publisher, Gabriel´s, and tonight they are hosting an exclusive cocktail party with a theme: “Arabian ...

A lifeguard changes the yellow flag for a red flag on the beach Playa de las Burras in San Agustín. The currents are dangerous and nobody is allowed to get in the water. Alejandro ...

“He took his time and pushed some things aside behind me on the desk. Then he put me on my back, and while he locked eyes with me, he pushed all the way into me in one, slow thrust ...