Small group of Europeans surrounded in Northern China during the Boxer insurrection.
An amateur astronomer discovers a new star on the eve of a cataclysmic event on Earth. This is a story of fear, bravery, and survival.
The main character, Lord Arthur Savile, is introduced by Lady Windermere to Mr Septimus R. Podgers, a chiromantist, who reads his palm and tells him that it is his destiny to be a murderer. Lord Arthur wants to marry, but decides he has no right to do so until he has committed the murder.
There was a mystery about Rosamond's husband. And one terrible day she learnt what it was.
Renovations to a cathedral reveal a long-hidden tomb. It is unknown who is buried in it. Shortly after the tomb is discovered, people who live near to the cathedral begin to die and others fall sick.
'The Cost of Kindness' is a humorous short story about a town that tries to overthrow its disliked priest with kindness.
This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, much to the annoyance of its tired ghost. The family -- which refuses to believe in him -- is in Wilde's way a commentary on the British nobility of the day -- and on the Americans, too.
Something terrible was happening in the next room and the mademoiselle and her cavalier found themselves in a horrifying predicament.
The wife who lied, the lover and the jealous husband: a triangle drama with a grim conclusion.
from Ambrosio, Or The Monk....Devil, Monk and Inquisition...