…continuing from last week, a story by Henrietta Dorothy Huskisson aka H.D. Everett, from “The Death-Mask and Other Ghosts”. I did not like Dr. Vickers and his Italian lessons, and I had the impression Freda would have been better pleased by their intermission. On the third day she had a headache and charged me to […]
…continuing from last week. After lunch Freda did not seem willing to go out again, so, as I was there to companion her, we both settled down to needlework and a book for alternate reading aloud. The reading, however, languished; when it came to Freda’s turn she tired quickly, lost her place twice and again, […]
This is another story by the vastly underrated author known as H.D. Everett, born Henrietta Dorothy Huskisson, which I discovered while collecting stories for the Advent Calendar.. It’s included in The Death-Mask and Other Ghosts, and it’s perfect for a merfolk Monday. The story comes in parts. We were disappointed when Robert married. We had […]
Third part of a Christmas ghost story by James Hume Nisbet. First part here. Second part here. Chapter III. To Halifax, Nova Scotia The misanthrope, who has a limited income and an indifferent digestion—for both these causes tend towards making a Timon of a man—may fly to the country and solitude, but when a man […]
When I gave you “The Face at the Window” by James Hume Nisbet, I promised that the other story included in the eBook was going to feature in the Advent Calendar. I forgot, but my supporters on Patreon didn’t, so here’s a bonus story for this third day of Christmas (I was out of French […]
Fourth and last part of a ghost story by Edith Wharton, included in her collection Here and Beyond from 1926. And with this, our Advent Calendar comes at an end! First part here. Second part here. Third part here. The next day Bosworth’s sister Loretta, who kept house for him, asked him, when he came […]
Third part of a ghost story by Edith Wharton, included in her collection Here and Beyond from 1926. First part here. Second part here. They thought that Brand wanted to be left to himself, and to give him time to unhitch his horse they made a pretense of hanging about in the doorway while Bosworth […]
Second part of a ghost story by Edith Wharton, included in her collection Here and Beyond from 1926. First part here. As he came in he faced the light from the north window, and Bosworth’s first thought was that he looked like a drowned man fished out from under the ice—“self-drowned,” he 92added. But the […]
Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist and designer, celebrated for her insightful portrayals of the upper-class society of her time. Born Edith Newbold Jones in New York, she grew up in a wealthy family that provided her with a privileged upbringing, which greatly influenced her literary work. Wharton […]
Another story by Marie Corelli, included in her A Christmas Greeting from 1901. In a beautiful clear lake swam a large family of Ducks. At the head of them all was the Mother-Duck, quacking proudly, and all the ducklings tried to imitate her voice, which they considered superior to that of the nightingale. “Quack! Quack!” said she—“We […]