"The Shunned House" is a novelette by H. P. Lovecraft in the horror fiction genre. Written on October 16–19, 1924, it was first published in the October 1937 issue...

A mystery in which crime and a family curse are interwoven. Mystery fans will rack their brains to solve this superb story of a fatal curse, death masks, and a kidnapped heiress....

White Nights, a sentimental story from the diary of a dreamer, is told in first person by a nameless narrator who lives alone in St. Petersburg and suffers from loneliness and the...

Kangaroo is an account of a visit to New South Wales by an English writer named Richard Lovat Somers and his German wife Harriet in the early 1920s. This appears to be...

Novelist Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925), author of Red Pottage and Diana Tempest, writes of escaped criminals, desperate thieves, and the mysteries of a seemingly loving family, in...

"Wuthering Heights" is Emily Brontë's only novel. Written between October 1845 and June 1846 was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis...

The story is set just after the Union of Scotland and England, in the Liddesdale hills of the Scottish Borders, familiar to Scott from his work collecting ballads for The...

Maugham wrote The Magician in London, after he had spent some time living in Paris, where he met Aleister Crowley. In this tale, the magician of the title, Oliver Haddo, a...

Famous Romantic NovelExcerpt from Book:Flood turned his head and smiled into her eyes. He waited a full half-minute before he replied. "No," he said, slowly. "No,...

Plus size pediatrician Jennifer, learns that getting older means making choices to please everyone else, even if it makes her unhappy. She loves her job, but she's scraping...