短篇小说 | Gentle Hand

2022年4月25日

I did not hear the maiden's name; but in my thought I have ever since called her "Gentle Hand." What a magic lay in her touch! It was wonderful.

短篇小说 | The Tell-Tale Heart

2022年4月23日

"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed!--tear up the planks!--here, here!--it is the beating of his hideous heart!"

短篇小说 | Bertie's Christmas Eve

2022年4月21日

It was Christmas Eve, and the family circle of Luke Steffink, Esq., was aglow with the amiability and random mirth which the occasion demanded.

短篇小说 | The Model Millionaire

2022年4月20日

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed.

短篇小说 | A Cosmopolite in a Cafe

2022年4月18日

At midnight the cafe was crowded. By some chance the little table at which I sat had escaped the eye of incomers, and two vacant chairs at it extended their arms with venal hospitality to the influx of patrons.

短篇小说 | What You Want

2022年4月17日

Night had fallen on that great and beautiful city known as Bagdad-on-the-Subway. And with the night came the enchanted glamour that belongs not to Arabia alone.