Lady Frances Carfax, a wealthy but solitary woman, vanishes while traveling alone across Europe. Concerned by her sudden silence, Sherlock Holmes sends Dr. Watson to follow her...
In "The Lion of Tiberias", Englishman John Norwald, once a noble warrior, is betrayed and enslaved during the era of the Crusades. After decades chained to an oar, he returns...
On the brink of the First World War, Sherlock Holmes emerges from retirement for one last and critical mission. Living quietly in Sussex, the great detective is called upon to...
The tale follows a narrator who, in a violent quarrel, quite literally loses his breath—his physical ability to breathe disappears. Though still conscious, he is assumed dead...
"Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" (1904) by M. R. James is a classic collection of eight chilling tales that blend scholarly settings with supernatural terror. James, a Cambridge...
"The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" follows Randolph Carter, a dreamer who ventures deep into the Dreamlands seeking the majestic city of his visions, which the gods have...
Set in a remote West African fortress, "Wolfshead" blends colonial adventure with supernatural dread. Pierre, a visiting Frenchman of the castle of the noble Dom Vincente, in the...
An eccentric narrator proudly explains his "systematic" life as a man of business, recounting a series of bizarre and often absurd ventures he calls professional work. Through his...
At nightfall, a lone traveler loses his way in the dark and tangled Forest of Villefère. Surrounded by shadows and silence, he meets a stranger who offers companionship on the...
In "The Resident Patient" by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the strange case of Dr. Percy Trevelyan, a physician with a peculiar financial...