Dreams and Dream Stories

I. The Doomed Train II. The Wonderful Spectacles III. The Counsel of Perfection IV. The City of Blood V. The Bird and the Cat VI. The Treasure in the Lighted House VII. The Fore...

I. A Village of Seers II. Steepside; A Ghost Story III. Beyond the Sunset IV. A Turn of Luck V. Noemi VI. The Little Old Man's Story VII. The Nightshade VIII. St. George the Che...

I am an American, junior partner in a London mercantile house having a large Swiss connection; and a transaction--needless to specify her--required immediate and personal superv...

"It is getting very dark now, and I have been sitting at my open bay window ever since sundown. How fresh and sweet the evening air is, as it comes up from my little flower gard...

Some forty years ago, there lived in one of the prettiest houses in Kensington, a rich old wine-merchant, and his two only children. These young men, Stephen and Maurice Grey, w...

Soon after these things, old Mr Gray fell ill of a violent cold, which attacked him suddenly one afternoon on his return from his office. It was Christmas weather then, and the...

I put my posy in a little vase filled with water, and when night came, I lay down to rest, with my head full of vague rhymes and unfledged ideas, whose theme was still my eccent...

Very early the next morning Battista came to see Herr Ritter. In his hand the boy carried a large clay flowerpot, wherein, carefully planted in damp mould, and supported by long...

He went home to his little dark studio, where the sunlight so rarely entered, and where the big tomes and the skull and the fossils, and the picture of the beautiful girl and he...