Literature Pick #119

His Unquiet Ghost

by Mary Noailles Murfree (using the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock)

A tale from the 1912 short story collection The Raid of The Guerilla, and Other Stories.

 

Literature Pick #118

Flight Through Tomorrow

by Stanton A. Coblentz (1896-1982)

An astonishing science fiction short story from Fantasy Book, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1947).

Literature Pick #117

On the Northern Ice
by Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935)
From the 1898 short story collection, The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales.

Literature Pick #116

The Spy
by Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916)
From the 1910 short story collection, Once Upon A Time.

Literature Pick #115

The Wind in the Rose-Bush
by Mary Wilkins (1852-1930)
A short story from the 1903 book, The Wind in the Rose-bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural.

Literature Pick #114

The Four-Fifteen Express
by Amelia B. Edwards (1831-1892)
A fantastic short story, first published in the Dec. 22, 1866 issue of Every Saturday (Vol. II No. 51).

Literature Pick #113

The Light-house
by Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)
A short story from the 1918 book, Walking Shadows: Sea Tales and Others.

Literature Pick #112

The End of Time
by Wallace West (1900-1980)
A fantastic science fiction short story from the March 1933 issue of Astounding Stories.

Literature Pick #111

The White Island—A Story of the Dardanelles
by Edward Eyre Hunt (1885-1953)
From the 1918 book of short stories about World War I, Tales from a Famished Land.

Literature Pick #110

A Michigan Man
by Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935)
First published in 1891 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: volume XLVII.

Literature Pick #109

Christmas Eve On Lonesome

by John Fox, Jr. (1862–1919)

A splendid short story from the 1904 book Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories.

Literature Pick #108

The Devil's Asteroid
by Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986)
An action-packed science fiction short story from the July 1941 issue of Comet.

Literature Pick #107

The Medici Boots
by Pearl Norton Swet
A horror short story from the August-September 1936 issue of Weird Tales.

Literature Pick #106

Clarimonde
by Théophile Gautier (1811-1872)
A fantastic horror tale, first published in La Chronique de Paris in 1836, and here translated by Lafcadio Hearn.

Literature Pick #105

The Sire De Malétroit's Door
by Robert Louis Stevenson
First published in 1878, and then included in the short story collection New Arabian Nights in 1882.

Literature Pick #104

The Terror from the Depths

by Sewell Peaslee Wright

From the November 1931 issue of Astounding Stories comes this fantastic science fiction short story, an action-packed tale starring Commander John Hanson, a character who appeared in ten stories from 1930 to 1933.

Literature Pick #103

The New Catacomb
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A masterful short story, first published in 1898, and included here in the 1922 short story collection, Tales of Terror and Mystery.

Literature Pick #102

A Country Idyl
by Sarah Knowles Bolton (1841-1916)
A romantic short story from the 1898 book A Country Idyl and Other Stories.

Literature Pick #101

High Man
by Jay Clarke
An amusing science fiction short story from the June 1954 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.

Literature Pick #100

The Last of the Legions
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
First published in the December 1910 issue of The London Magazine, and here republished in the 1925 short story collection The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago.