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| | A Psychological Shipwreck
A man sets sail from Liverpool to New York on 'The Morrow' where he becomes attracted to a strange young woman. |
- Date Added: December 2001
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | An Inhabitant Of Carcosa
A man wakes from thought and realises he is wandering on an unfamiliar and desolate expanse of plain. |
- Date Added: December 2001
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
A man stands on a railroad bridge; his wrists are bound with a chord, a rope encircles his neck. This story was adapted into the most popular ever episode of The Twighlight Zone. |
- Date Added: March 2000
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal-Man
A frightened railway signal-man is plagued by premonitions of distasters. |
- Date Added: September 2001
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Haunted House
A gentleman moves into a reputedly haunted country house; soon the servants are scared witless but the master is not convinced. Plays with different attitudes to paranormal activity. |
- Date Added: September 2001
- Length: 28 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Trial For Murder
A banker is disturbed by visions of a murdered man and his killer. Then he is called for jury duty. |
- Date Added: September 2001
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Horror of the Heights
A pioneering aviator begins to suspect that the official explainations cannot account for the constant stream of in-air deaths and disappearances. |
- Date Added: January 2000
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Terror of Blue John Gap
A scientific city-man encounters the legend of a terrifying monster when he retires to Derbyshire. |
- Date Added: February 2000
- Length: 18 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Mummy's Foot
A man buys the mummified foot of an Egyptian princess as a paperweight but soon finds his dreams disturbed. |
- Date Added: August 2001
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | Rappaccini's Daughter
A student rents an apartment that looks onto the meticulously kept garden of the strange Dr Rappaccini and his beautiful daughter. |
- Date Added: September 2002
- Length: 28 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | Rip Van Winkle
A man drinks a magic potion and sleeps through the American Revolution. Classic reworking of a European folk-tale. |
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: U
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| | The Enemy of All the World
A biography of scientific wizard and arch-enemy of mankind, Emil Gluck. |
- Date Added: November 1999
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Shadow and the Flash
The story of a destructive rivalry between two brilliant scientists. |
- Date Added: November 1999
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Horla
Creeping paranoia becomes something altogether more sinister, but is it madness or has he discovered a plot that threatens humanity. |
- Date Added: June 2001
- Length: 27 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | Manuscript Found in a Bottle
While on a voyage to a remote archipelago, the narrator is overcome by a premonition of evil. But the ship's captain pays no attention. |
- Date Added: August 1999
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Vampyre
A young man becomes involved with the mysterious, mirthless Lord Ruthven. |
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | "Ministers of Grace"
An unusually religious Duke gets tired of petty party politics and replaces the members of the Houses of Parliament with Angels. |
- Date Added: January 2000
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Hedgehog
Mrs. Hatch-Mallard takes her rivalry with Mrs. Dole into the realm of the supernatural. |
- Date Added: December 2001
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Music on the Hill
A couple apparently run into some ancient forces when they make the move to the country. |
- Date Added: January 2000
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | Tobermory
Revealing the dangers of giving previously dumb animals the power of speech. Especially cats. |
- Date Added: October 1999
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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