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As a man pursues the affections of beautiful young girl, he begins to experience a strange phenomenon that up till that point only affected her mother.
A student rents an apartment that looks onto the meticulously kept garden of the strange Dr Rappaccini and his beautiful daughter.
Holmes comes to the aid of the King of Bohemia, a case which brings him into contact with the adventuress Irene Adler.
The first man on earth recalls the early years.
A boy is influenced by his father's unusual explanations.
A small grocery store comes up with an ingenious way of competing with the big city shops.
When asked for the time at a party, a man becomes aggressive and is strangely reluctant to look at his watch.
The story of a frantic chase, an apathetic crowd and a machete.
A prospective buyer goes to look round a French chateau (complete with chapel and tombs) but finds the place deserted - apart from a strange pack of dogs.
A wicked enchantress imprisons a beautiful girl in a tower.
An old man, his memory failing, searches for the grave of his lost love.
The workers in a damp, underground bakery dote on a young servant girl from the floor above.
Lisa returns to the island of her honeymoon to think about her marriage.
A poor family set their hopes on the return of a previously good-for-nothing uncle who left for America to seek his fortune.
Maupassant's short masterpiece following the journey of a group of civilians during the Franco-Prussian war.
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
“Go to Goldman’s Greenhouses. Joseph … will start you … at a buck sixty an hour.” His lungs empty of smoke, “Go talk to him. He’s your uncle. He’ll hire you.
A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
Detective Inspector Dave Box entered the room: an elderly man sat motionless in a wheelchair in a blue dressing gown open at his pale chest, revealing sparse hairs and a plastic tube entering the bottom of his throat.
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
Olly Rice had given his life to literature, but what had literature given him? A wound in the head that oozed something worse than blood or brain matter.
Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
"Damn thing," old Ernie muttered, glancing up from his laptop. He reached out to shut off the annoying noise but noticed the call was from his area. This was unusual.
