The utter loneliness of our moose-camp on Skeleton Lake had impressed us from the beginning–in the Quebec backwoods, ... Read more
English Short Stories
Total Stories: 71
From Southwater, where he left the train, the road led due west. That he knew; for the rest ... Read more
(A Nightmare) 1 Professor Mark Ebor, the scientist, led a double life, and the only persons who knew ... Read more
One summer, in my wanderings with a knapsack, I was at luncheon in the room of a wayside ... Read more
I Hibbert, always conscious of two worlds, was in this mountain village conscious of three. It lay on ... Read more
It was eleven o’clock at night, and young Marriott was locked into his room, cramming as hard as ... Read more
Besides the departmental men on the New York Vulture, there were about twenty reporters for general duty, and ... Read more
Dutton accepted the invitation for the feeble reason that he was not quick enough at the moment to ... Read more
Sometimes, in a moment of sharp experience, comes that vivid flash of insight that makes a platitude suddenly ... Read more
Jim Shorthouse was the sort of fellow who always made a mess of things. Everything with which his ... Read more
To sleep in a lonely barn when the best bedrooms in the house were at our disposal, seemed, ... Read more
The following events occurred on a small island of isolated position in a large Canadian lake, to whose ... Read more