First published in 1843, “The Tell-Tale Hear” showcases Poe's mastery with dark, gothic tales that shed light on human frailties, in this case the paranoia and guilt that afflicts a man who is charged with caring for an elderly ward with a cataract.
In this classic tale by Charles Dickens, the narrator is persistent in taking up residence in a long deserted, seemingly haunted house. Stories of ghosts and the supernatural, including a hooded woman with an owl, surround the house. Unable to employ any servants, all seems lost until the narrator's sister suggests they invite several friends to take up residence with them and hopefully drive out ...
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe nearly two decades after her seminal work, Uncle Tom's Cabin, “The Ghost in the Mill” focuses on storyteller Sam Lawson, who goes into great detail recounting a thrilling encounter Captain Eb Sawin and Cack Sparrow have with a supernatural entity. Cack's mill serves as the setting for the terrifying events to unfold as both men witness the unbelievable and ...
First published in 1819, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is the classic ghost story by Washington Irving that tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a tense schoolmaster who has the misfortune of meeting the infamous Headless Horseman in the Old Dutch Burying Ground in Sleepy Hollow. For the complete works of Washington Irving, click here.
A classic of the horror genre, “The Pit and the Pendulum” is Poe's dark tale of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, condemned to death and thrown in a black dungeon. The prisoner is then faced with the Hobson's Choice of throwing himself into an immense and seemingly bottomless pit, thus ending his life quickly, or to endure the torture of the slowly swinging blade of the pendulum.
“The Raven,” one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous tales, was first published in the New York Evening Mirror, and was an instant success. Concerning an obsessed and paranoid man bemoaning the loss of his love, Lenore, the poem's lyrical construct and use of rhyme and meter serve to heighten the building terror of the piece; underscored by the ominous repetition of the raven's signature reply to ...
Jim and Della live in rather modest accommodations. With a total income of twenty dollars a week, Della has only been able to save $1.87 for Jim's Christmas present. She must go to an extreme measure to pay for a chain for Jim's pocket watch, an heirloom handed down from his father and grandfather. The two come to realize, however, that real gifts far surpass physical bounds.
Ordered to clean up corrupt Denton County, Texas Ranger Captain Charlie Delano teams up with Guy Tyrone and Gideon Magee in an attempt to put Ace Erickson and his band of outlaws behind bars. Original.