*Title: Ghosts that Have Haunted Me by John Kendrick Bangs Date Read: 26 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: The narrator, totally at ease with ghosts and haunting, relates a number of encounters that he's had with ghosts. So at ease is … [Read more...]
’31 Tales of Terror’ #21: Ghosts that Have Haunted Me
’31 Tales of Terror’ #20: In the Confessional
*Title: In the Confessional by Amelia B. Edwards Date Read: 26 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Recovering from a sorrow in his life, the narrator takes to rambling around Europe. He happens on the idyllic Swiss town of Rheinfelden … [Read more...]
’31 Tales of Terror’ #19: In Kropsberg Keep
*Title: In Kropsberg Keep by Ralf A. Cram Date Read: 25 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Two skeptic Germans Otto and Rupert, travel down to Austria in a kind of anti-ghost hunting trip, in order to disprove the existence of many of … [Read more...]
’31 Tales of Terror’ #18: A School Story
*Title: A School Story by M. R. James Date Read: 25 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Two friends discuss ghost stories relating to their old schools, and one relates the tale of a teacher, Mr. Sampson who was receiving horrifying (to … [Read more...]
’31 Tales of Terror’ #17: The Dead Woman’s Photograph
*Title: The Dead Woman's Photograph by Anonymous Date Read: 24 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Despite wishing only to take photographs of the picturesque, photography-assistant Virgil Hoyt, on occasion, also has to take photos of the … [Read more...]
’31 Tales of Terror’ #16: Earl Beardie’s Game At Cards
*Title: Earl Beardie’s Game At Cards by Anonymous Date Read: 24 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Desperate to find a card-playing partner on the holiest day of the week and frustrated that he hasn't, Earl Beardie of Glamis Castle … [Read more...]
’31 Tales of Terror’ #15: The Striding-Place
*Title: The Striding-Place by Gertrude Atherton Date Read: 24 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: It's the grouse-shooting season and Weigall, instead of residing at the estate castle at the end of the day, with the rest of his hunting … [Read more...]
’31 Tales of Terror’ #14: The Ebony Frame
*Title: The Ebony Frame by E. Nesbit Date Read: 24 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: A young Fleet Street reporter inherits the house of his Aunt in Chelsea, which distances him geographically from his 'love interest' Mildred. However … [Read more...]
’31 Tales of Terror’ #13: The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows
*Title: The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows by W. B. Yeats Date Read: 24 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: An Irish tales about Puritan troopers who enter the Abbey of the White Friars and execute all of the monks within. The … [Read more...]
’31 Tales of Terror’ #12: Protection
*Title: Protection by Valery Brussof Date Read: 23 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: A military general recounts a tale to his wife, of a time during his younger years when he fell in love with widower, Elena Grigorievna. He makes the … [Read more...]