Note: This review is a direct copy of one completed for my own 100 Shots of Short challenge *Title: The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe Date Read: 05 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: A dark tale about the murder of an old man. … [Read more...]

*Title: The Bully of Brocas Court by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Date Read: 30 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Desperate to find a worthy boxing opponent for Farrier-Sergeant Slogger Burton, Yeomanry Captain and Baronet Sir Fred Milburn … [Read more...]

*Title: How He Left the Hotel by Louisa Baldwin Date Read: 30 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: A retired soldier, turned lift-operator narrates how his contentment at shunting passengers daily, up and down the floors of a swanky hotel, … [Read more...]

*Title: The Mystery of the Semi-Detatched by E. Nesbit Date Read: 29 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Stood up by his date, the narrator passes by the house of his sweetheart to find all the lights out and the front door open. Overcome … [Read more...]

*Title: The Shadow of a Midnight by Maurice Baring Date Read: 28 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Civil servant Jameson relates a ghostly tale to his Russian hosts, which occurred during his time at Heidelberg University. Befriending a … [Read more...]

*Title: The Ghost in All the Rooms by Daniel Defoe Date Read: 27 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Due to sudden illness an aristocrat have to leave their summer home leaving a steward and three servants in charge of the place. … [Read more...]

*Title: An Inhabitant of Carcosa by Ambrose Bierce Date Read: 27 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Recovering from the delirium of fever the narrator of this tale finds himself in a long forgotten graveyard some miles from his home city … [Read more...]

*Title: The Dampmere Mystery by John Kendrick Bangs Date Read: 27 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Dawson, a New York writer, wishing to be alone, takes rental of a little cottage in the village of Dampmere. With only his Chinese … [Read more...]

*Title: Glámr by Sabine Baring-Gould Date Read: 27 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Struggling to find someone to hire (because of the haunted lands around his farm), Icelandic farmer Thorhall employs fearless 'man mountain' Glámr as … [Read more...]

*Title: A Ghost Story by Mark Twain Date Read: 26 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: The narrator takes up residence in a room in an old, unoccupied building in New York opposite the museum. His perception that the place is haunted, … [Read more...]