Algernon Blackwood: A Haunted Island
The following events occurred on a small island of isolated position in a large Canadian lake, to whose cool waters the inhabitants of Montreal and Toronto flee for rest and recreation in the hot...
View ArticleW. B. Yeats : The Sorcerers ( from `The Celtic Twilight´)
In Ireland we hear but little of the darker powers, and come across any who have seen them even more rarely, for the imagination of the people dwells rather upon the fantastic and capricious, and...
View ArticleFrank Cadogan Cowper / Arthur Hughes/ Wislawa Szymborska: Not too Windy
It’s too windy for flimsy masks All thankfully yanked at on hardened air The call & wash of wave then wave mark The times of our lives . The charade route marches Its way today through town An...
View ArticleMary Wilkins-Freeman: A Symphony in Lavender
It was quite late in the evening, dark and rainy, when I arrived, and I suppose the first object in Ware, outside of my immediate personal surroundings, which arrested my attention was the Munson...
View ArticleMary E. Wilkins Freeman: The Jade Bracelet
Lawrence Evarts was on his way home from his law-office in Somerset when he caught sight of the inexplicable circle in the snow. The snow was hard and smooth, and the circle immediately arrested his...
View ArticleMary E. Wilkins Freeman: A Far Away Melody
The clothes-line was wound securely around the trunks of four gnarled, crooked old apple-trees, which stood promiscuously about the yard back of the cottage. It was tree-blossoming time, but these...
View ArticleMary E. Wilkins Freeman: A Gentle Ghost
OUT in front of the cemetery stood a white horse and a covered wagon. The horse was not tied, but she stood quite still, her four feet widely and ponderously planted, her meek white head hanging....
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