It is not worth telling, this story of mine--at least, not worth writing. Told, indeed, as I have sometimes been called upon to tell it...

In the five Northumbrian counties you will scarcely find so bleak, ugly, and yet, in a savage way, so picturesque a moor as Dardale Mo...

I'm an old woman now; and I was but thirteen my last birthday, the night I came to Applewale House. My aunt was the housekeeper the...

PROLOGUE ON this case Doctor Hesselius has inscribed nothing more than the words, "Harman's Report," and a simple ref...

“I have made a point all my life,” said the doctor, “of believing nothing of the kind.” Much ghost-talk by firelight had been go...

Old Sally always attended her young mistress while she prepared for bed—not that Lilias required help, for she had the spirit o...

For a long time I had been sick and my doctor advised me that it would do me well to spendmy convalescence in some calm and sunny smal...

There is a famous story of a white cat, with which we all become acquainted in the nursery. I am going to tell a story of a white cat ...

PROLOGUE OUT of about two hundred and thirty cases more or less nearly akin to that I have entitled "Green Tea," I sele...

Chapter I Dr. Hesselius Relates How He Met the Rev. Mr. Jennings The Rev. Mr. Jennings is tall and thin. He is middle-aged, and dres...

PROLOGUE Upon a paper attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he accomp...

In the early autumn of the year 1838, business called me to the south of Ireland. The weather was delightful, the scenery and people we...

About thirty years ago I was selected by two rich old maids to visit a property in that part of Lancashire which lies near the famous f...

Many persons accustomed to travel the old York and London road, in the days of stage-coaches, will remember passing, in the afternoon,...

"When Lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth Sin: and Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth Death." About sixty yea...

In looking over the papers of my late valued and respected friend, Francis Purcell, who for nearly fifty years discharged the arduous ...