I had been for ten years an inhabitant of Bagnell Terrace, and, like all those who have been so fortunate as to secure a footing there, was ...

                       Edward Frederic Benson, Expiation, Relatos de misterio, Tales of mystery, Relatos de terror, Horror stories, Short st...

Garth Place lies low in a dip of the hills which, north, east, and west, enclose its sequestered valley, as in the palm of a hollowed ha...

The little village of St. Faith's nestles in a hollow of wooded till up on the north bank of the river Fawn in the country of Hampsh...

"It's a convention," said Anthony Carling cheerfully, "and not a very convincing one. Time, indeed! There's no su...

Many people will doubtless, remember that exhibition at the Royal Academy, not so many seasons ago which came to be known as Alingham...

Francis Elton was spending a fortnight's holiday one January in the Engadine, when he received the telegram announcing the death of ...

Luxor, as most of those who have been there will allow, is a place of notable charm, and boasts many attractions for the traveller, chi...

Firham-by-sea had long been known to Jim Purley and myself, though we had been careful not to talk about it, and for years we had bee...

Dr. Hugh Morris, while still in the early thirties of his age, had justly earned for himself the reputation of being one of the most de...

I saw a month or two ago in an Italian paper that the Villa Cascana, in which I once stayed, had been pulled down, and that a manufac...

Frank Ingleton and I had left London early in July with the intention of spending a couple of months at least in Cornwall. This sojourn...

Dr. Teesdale had occasion to attend the condemned man once or twice during the week before his execution, and found him, as is often th...

It had been a disastrous afternoon: rain had streamed incessantly from a low grey sky, and the road was of the vilest description. The...

    The casual tourist in West Cornwall may just possibly have noticed, as he bowled along over the bare high plateau between Penzance...

For the past ten days Alhubel had basked in the radiant midwinter weather proper to its eminence of over 6,000 feet. From rising to s...

It is probable that everybody who is at all a constant dreamer has had at least one experience of an event or a sequence of ci...

The red chimneys of the house for which I was bound were visible from just outside the station at which I had alighted, and, so the cha...

My friend, Hugh Grainger, and I had just returned from a two days' visit in the country, where we had been staying in a house of ...

The village of Maxley, where, last summer and autumn, these strange events took place, lies on a heathery and pine-clad upland of Suss...