The following pages are the account given me by Dr. Assheton of the Thing in the Hall. I took notes, as copious as my quickness of hand allowed me, from his dictation, and subsequently read to him this narrative in its...
Entries from January 2013 ↓
Public Domain Online Text: The Thing in the Hall by Night by E. F. Benson
January 28th, 2013 — From The Feeds
Public Domain Online Text: The Coming of Abel Behenna by Bram Stoker
January 28th, 2013 — From The Feeds
The little Cornish port of Pencastle was bright in the early April, when the sun had seemingly come to stay after a long and bitter winter. Boldly and blackly the rock stood out against a background of shaded blue, where the sky fading into mist met the far horizon. The sea was...
Public Domain Online Text: The Confession of Charles Linkworth by E. F. Benson
January 27th, 2013 — From The Feeds
Dr. Teesdale had occasion to attend the condemned man once or twice during the week before his execution, and found him, as is often the case, when his last hope of life has vanished...
Public Domain Online Text: The Other Bed by E. F. Benson
January 27th, 2013 — From The Feeds
I had gone out to Switzerland just before Christmas, expecting, from experience, a month of divinely renovating weather, of skating all day in brilliant sun, and basking in the hot frost of that windless atmosphere...
Public Domain Online Text: Uncle Abraham’s Romance by E. Nesbit
January 26th, 2013 — From The Feeds
'No, my dear,' my Uncle Abraham answered me, 'no--nothing romantic ever happened to me--unless--but no: that wasn't romantic either--'...
Public Domain Online Text: Christopher Comes Back by E. F. Benson
January 26th, 2013 — From The Feeds
During five years of childless marriage Nellie Mostyn had lived in bondage to the fancied ailments and literary industry of her husband. For the last three of these Christopher had been engaged on a...
Public Domain Online Text: The Sanctuary by E. F. Benson
January 26th, 2013 — From The Feeds
Francis Elton was spending a fortnight's holiday one January in the Engadine, when he received the telegram announcing the death of his uncle, Horace Elton, and his own succession to a very agreeable property: the telegram added that the cremation of the remains was to...
Public Domain Online Text: Thursday Evening by E. F. Benson
January 26th, 2013 — From The Feeds
With the death of Mrs. Georgiana Wallace, in 1920, a very notable link with certain artistic activities in the mid-Victorian era was severed. She had long passed her eightieth year, but her mental faculties were quite unclouded--the link, in fact, was...
Public Domain Online Text: The Mystery of the Semi-Detached by E. Nesbit
January 26th, 2013 — From The Feeds
He was waiting for her; he had been waiting an hour and a half in a dusty suburban lane, with a row of big elms on one side and some eligible building sites on the other--and far away to the south-west the twinkling yellow lights of the Crystal Palace. It was not quite like a country lane, for it had a...
Public Domain Online Text: A Gypsy Prophecy by Bram Stoker
January 26th, 2013 — From The Feeds
'I really think,' said the Doctor, 'that, at any rate, one of us should go and try whether or not the thing is an imposture.' 'Good!' said Considine. 'After dinner we will take our cigars and stroll over to the camp'...
Public Domain Online Text: Gavon’s Eve by E. F. Benson
January 26th, 2013 — From The Feeds
It is only the largest kind of ordnance map that records the existence of the village of Gavon, in the shire of Sutherland, and it is perhaps surprising that any map on whatever scale should mark so small and huddled a group of...
I See Pizza in my Future, and It is Glorious
January 25th, 2013 — From The Feeds
Friday 1/25/2013 It’s FRIIIIIIIDAY! Well, my stress-er for the week, my dead vehicle ended up being comically easy to fix. I went from fearing a $1000 repair to…$139 repair. Can’t beat that, eh? All the same, I learned a valuable lesson in the last two days in that I now know I can properly handle [...]
Public Domain Online Text: The Bath-Chair by E. F. Benson
January 24th, 2013 — From The Feeds
Edmund Faraday, at the age of fifty, had every reason to be satisfied with life: he had got all he really wanted, and plenty of it. Health was among the chief causes of his content, and he often reflected that the medical profession would have a very thin time of it, if everyone was as fortunate as he...
Public Domain Online Text: Monkeys by E. F. Benson
January 24th, 2013 — From The Feeds
Dr. Hugh Morris, while still in the early thirties of his age, had justly earned for himself the reputation of being one of the most dexterous and daring surgeons in his profession, and both in his private practice and in his voluntary work at one of the great London hospitals his record of success as an operator was unparalleled among his colleagues...
Public Domain Online Text: The Secret of the Growing Gold by Bram Stoker
January 24th, 2013 — From The Feeds
When Margaret Delandre went to live at Brent's Rock the whole neighbourhood awoke to the pleasure of an entirely new scandal. Scandals in connection with either the Delandre family or the Brents of Brent's Rock, were not few; and if the secret history of the county had been written in...