Category: Short Stories
PAGE THE DEATH OF HALPIN FRAYSER 13 THE SECRET OF MACARGER’S GULCH 44 ONE SUMMER NIGHT 58 THE MOONLIT ROAD 62 A DIAGNOSIS OF DEATH 81 MOXON’S MASTER 88 A TOUGH TUSSLE 106 ONE OF TWINS 121 THE HAUNTED VALLEY 134 A JUG OF SIRUP 155 STALEY FLEMING’S HALLUCINATION 169 A RESUMED ID...
His humor did not amuse me. I could see that in relating his delusion he was again somewhat disturbed. His concluding smile was positively ghastly, and his eyes had resumed some...
10. Chapter 10Like a body cut from the gallows the Chinaman plumped into the black hole below, carrying his tail in his teeth. The trapdoor turned over, shutting down with a snap. The swarthy...
6. Chapter 6YOU ask me if in my experience as one of a pair of twins I ever observed anything unaccountable by the natural laws with which we have acquaintance. As to that you shall judge;...
9. Chapter 9The Brownons had from time immemorial—from the very earliest of the old colonial days—been the leading family of the town. It was the richest and it was the best, and Blackburg...
12. Chapter 12The body rested in a fine mahogany coffin fitted with a plate of glass. All arrangements for the funeral had been so well attended to that had the deceased known he would doubtl...
7. Chapter 7The trees among which the path straggled were ordinary, well-behaved plants, a trifle perverted as to trunk and eccentric as to bough, but with nothing unearthly in their genera...
5. Chapter 5He was apparently not more than five feet in height, with proportions suggesting those of a gorilla—a tremendous breadth of shoulders, thick, short neck and broad, squat head, w...
4. Chapter 4What I am about to relate happened on a night. We know when it is night, for then you retire to your houses and we can venture from our places of concealment to move unafraid ab...
14. Chapter 14IN the heart of Haïta the illusions of youth had not been supplanted by those of age and experience. His thoughts were pure and pleasant, for his life was simple and his soul de...
3. Chapter 3“There was an old shanty once in the gulch,” Morgan resumed when the ruin wrought by my awkwardness had been repaired, “but just previously to my visit it had been blown down, o...
11. Chapter 11“To sundry it is given to be drawn away, and to be apart from the body for a season; for, as concerning rills which would flow across each other the weaker is borne along by the...
2. Chapter 2“I wanted merely to show you the ground, and arrange a plan with you,” the detective explained. “I thought it as well for us to be heeled, even in daylight.”
8. Chapter 8On the evening immediately after Alvan Creede’s adventure (which had somehow “got out”) a crowd of men, women and children thronged the sidewalk opposite the store. That the pla...
1. Chapter 1PAGE THE DEATH OF HALPIN FRAYSER 13 THE SECRET OF MACARGER’S GULCH 44 ONE SUMMER NIGHT 58 THE MOONLIT ROAD 62 A DIAGNOSIS OF DEATH 81 MOXON’S MASTER 88 A TOUGH TUSSLE 106 ONE OF...
15. Chapter 15“This country was not then what it is now. There was not a ranch between the Gila and the Gulf. There was a little game here and there in the mountains, and near the infrequent...