Strange StoriesThe Floating Press, 01/07/2014 - 338 páginas A scientist and scholar by trade, Grant Allen was a prodigious writer who dabbled in many different genres over the course of his career, playing a significant role in the development of both detective fiction and science fiction. This collection of short stories runs the gamut in terms of theme and subject matter, but all of the tales highlight Allen's fascination with the weird, mysterious and uncanny. |
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... wife should come in to prayers, for they carried out their accustomed ceremony decorously, even there, every night and morning. Suddenly they heard the din of savage music out of doors, and the noise of a great crowd laughing and 17.
... wife should come in to prayers, for they carried out their accustomed ceremony decorously, even there, every night and morning. Suddenly they heard the din of savage music out of doors, and the noise of a great crowd laughing and 17.
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... night she heard John in the jungle behind the yard, and looking out, she saw dimly that he was hacking the keg to pieces vehemently with an axe. After that he was even kinder and tenderer to her than usual for the next week, but Ethel ...
... night she heard John in the jungle behind the yard, and looking out, she saw dimly that he was hacking the keg to pieces vehemently with an axe. After that he was even kinder and tenderer to her than usual for the next week, but Ethel ...
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... night, as she had never done before since she came to Africa, into the broad lane between the huts which constituted the chief street of Butabué. So far away from home, so utterly solitary among all those black faces, so sick at heart ...
... night, as she had never done before since she came to Africa, into the broad lane between the huts which constituted the chief street of Butabué. So far away from home, so utterly solitary among all those black faces, so sick at heart ...
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... night and stolen his clothing, and how he could not go outside his door till he got some European dress again. "This is strange," said the missionary. "Brother Felton died three days ago of the fever. You can take his clothes to Brother ...
... night and stolen his clothing, and how he could not go outside his door till he got some European dress again. "This is strange," said the missionary. "Brother Felton died three days ago of the fever. You can take his clothes to Brother ...
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... night's watching, at the foot. John Creedy looked at his watch, which stood hard by on the little wooden table. "Sixty miles in fourteen hours," he said aloud. "Better time by a great deal than when we walked from Oxford to the White ...
... night's watching, at the foot. John Creedy looked at his watch, which stood hard by on the little wooden table. "Sixty miles in fourteen hours," he said aloud. "Better time by a great deal than when we walked from Oxford to the White ...
Índice
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75 | |
An Episode in High Life | 109 |
My New Years Eve Among the Mummies | 135 |
The Foundering of the Fortuna | 153 |
Carvalho | 215 |
A Great Chemical Discovery | 243 |
The Empress of Andorra | 265 |
A Tale of Two Continents | 288 |
The Child of the Phalanstery | 312 |
Our Scientific Observations on a Ghost | 331 |
Ram Das of Cawnpore | 352 |
Endnotes | 368 |
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