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
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Briefly: A dark tale about the murder of an old man.
Afterthoughts: I absolutely loved this short story - Edgar Allen Poe at his best (and [...]

*Title: The Bully of Brocas Court by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Date Read: 30 October 2008
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Briefly: Desperate to find a worthy boxing opponent for Farrier-Sergeant Slogger Burton, Yeomanry Captain and Baronet Sir Fred Milburn set off for London. Finding a a suitable pugilist in middleweight champion Alf Stevens, the Baronet and champion boxer head [...]

*Title: How He Left the Hotel by Louisa Baldwin
Date Read: 30 October 2008
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Briefly: A retired soldier, turned lift-operator narrates how his contentment at shunting passengers daily, up and down the floors of a swanky hotel, suddenly changed when he had an unexpected passenger.
Afterthoughts: Nice story! Well written and suitably creepy. I enjoyed this [...]

*Title: The Mystery of the Semi-Detatched by E. Nesbit
Date Read: 29 October 2008
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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 with a feeling of dread and danger the man enters the house expecting the [...]

*Title: The Shadow of a Midnight by Maurice Baring
Date Read: 28 October 2008
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Briefly: Civil servant Jameson relates a ghostly tale to his Russian hosts, which occurred during his time at Heidelberg University. Befriending a fellow student named Braun, the two set off on a summer walking tour of the country. Staying one night [...]

*Title: The Ghost in All the Rooms by Daniel Defoe
Date Read: 27 October 2008
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Briefly: Due to sudden illness an aristocrat have to leave their summer home leaving a steward and three servants in charge of the place. Perceptive that soon impending doom is about to befall the house in his charge, the steward [...]

*Title: An Inhabitant of Carcosa by Ambrose Bierce
Date Read: 27 October 2008
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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 of Carcosa. Worried in case he relapses into the same feverish state he seeks to find a [...]

*Title: The Dampmere Mystery by John Kendrick Bangs
Date Read: 27 October 2008
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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 servant and his pet mastiff for company, things go well at first. Then the strange phenomenon of [...]

*Title: Glámr by Sabine Baring-Gould
Date Read: 27 October 2008
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Briefly: Struggling to find someone to hire (because of the haunted lands around his farm), Icelandic farmer Thorhall employs fearless ‘man mountain’ Glámr as a herdsman. Lacking any Christian values, Glámr eats meat on the fasting eve before Christmas, despite being given the portent that [...]

*Title: A Ghost Story by Mark Twain
Date Read: 26 October 2008
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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, turns out to be correct and a night of ghostly terrorising begins.
Afterthoughts: This story from the [...]