<p>Stories of scarifying suspense, haunting uncertainty, and disquieting terror from the fanciful imaginations of nineteenthand twentieth-century English and American writers</p>

Some Things Weird And Wicked: 12 Stories to Chill Your Bones

John Bell Clayton

Mary E. Wilkins

D'Arcy Niland

Vin Packer

Frank Stockton

Julian, Hawthorne

Jack, London

Robert-Louis-Stevenson

Wilkie, Collins

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Excerpt from A Humble Romance, and Other StoriesShe was stooping over the great kitchen sink, washing the breakfast dishes. Under fostering circumstances, her slenderness of build might have resulted in delicacy or daintiness; now the harmony between strength and task had been repeatedly broken, and the result was ugliness. Her finger joints and wrist bones were knotty and out of proportion, her elbows, which her rolled-up sleeves dis played, were pointed and knobby, her shoulders bent, her feet spread beyond their natural bounds - from head to foot she was a little discordant note. She had a pale, peaked face, her scanty fair hair was strained tightly back, and twisted into a tiny knot, and her expression was at once passive and eager.There came a ringing knock at the kitchen door, and a face of another description, large, strong-featured, and assured, peered out of the pantry, which was over against the sink."Who is it, Sally?""I don' know, Mis' King.""Well, go to the door, can't you, an' not stan' thar gapin'. I can't; my hands are in the butter."Sally shook the dish-water off her red, sodden fingers, and shuffled to the door.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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