In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present positio...

-Yo no lo maté: él solito se le atravesó a la bala.

The word has an angry, malignant sound that brings the idea of attack vividly into the mind. There is a vicious sting about it somewh...

Esa noche de junio de 1540, en la cámara de la torre, el doctor Fausto recorría los anaqueles de su numerosa biblioteca. Se detenía ...

CHAPTER I—First Quarter. There are not many people—and as it is desirable that a story-teller and a story-reader should establish ...

-Sí -dijo el abogado Rhode-. Yo tuve esa causa. Es un caso, bastante raro por aquí, de vampirismo. Rogelio Castelar, un hombre hasta e...

None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves...

Ambrose Bierce by David Levine If you had seen little Jo standing at the street corner in the rain, you would hardly have admired him...

La noche era fría como sólo podía serlo en Noche Buena. Por supuesto, hablamos del hemisferio norte de nuestro planeta. Pero no dejemo...

This thing is so rare in all its circumstances, and on so good authority, that my reading and conversation have not given me anything ...

Papá era un idiota, lo admito. Era incapaz de durar más de cinco meses en un trabajo. Nunca se acordaba de mi cumpleaños. Y mantenía e...

From Southwater, where he left the train, theroad led due west. That he knew; for the rest hetrusted to luck, being one of those born w...

Me obsesiona esto —y tanto, que con frecuencia olvido que ya lo conté, y vuelvo a contarlo—: Cuatro amigos van al mar, vacaciones, muc...

Raoul, Comte de la Frenaie, was by nature the most unsuspicious of husbands. His lack of suspicion, perhaps, was partly lack of imagina...