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“The Most Dangerous Game” was written by Richard Edward Connell Jr. and first published in the 19 January 1924 issue of Collier’s magazine. Illustrations by Wilmot Emerton Heitland (1924). This work is in the public domain. ᚷᚢᛗᚨᚱᚨᛉ

“The Nightingale and the Rose” is the second of five stories from the collection “The Happy Prince and Other Tales,” written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1888. Illustrations by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood (1888). This work is in the public domain. ᚾᚨᚺᛏᛁᚷᚨᛚᛟ

“The Monkey’s Paw” was written by W. W. Jacobs and first published in the September 1902 issue of Harper’s Monthly. Illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen (1902). This work is in the public domain. ᚲᚢᚱᛊ Contents: I. (0:05) II. (9:51) III. (15:12)

“The Country of the Blind” was written by H. G. Wells and first published in the April 1904 issue of The Strand Magazine. Illustrations by Claude Allin Shepperson (1904), Dudley Tennant (1913), and Frank Rudolph Paul (1927). This work is in the public domain. ᚨᚾᛞᛁᛉ

“The Happy Prince” is the first of five stories from the collection “The Happy Prince and Other Tales,” written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1888. Illustrations by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood (1888). This work is in the public domain. ᚺᚨᛗᛈᚨ

“The Thing Invisible” is one of nine stories written by William Hope Hodgson which feature Carnacki the Ghost-Finder as their protagonist. A shorter version of The Thing Invisible was published in the January 1912 edition of The New Magazine, and was the last of the nine Carnacki stories to be published serially. The above, lengthened version is the first of the nine stories as laid out in the ...

“Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book” is the first of eight stories from the collection “Ghost Stories of an Antiquary,” written by M. R. James and published in 1904. Illustrations by James McBryde (1904). This work is in the public domain. ᛊᚲᚱᛖᛈᚨᛒᛟᚲᛊ Footnotes as they appear in the text: 1. We now know that these leaves did contain a considerable fragment of that work, if not of that actual copy of it....

“Carmilla” is the fifth of five stories from the collection “In a Glass Darkly,” written by Sheridan Le Fanu and published in 1872. Illustrations by Michael Fitzgerald and David Henry Friston (1872). This work is in the public domain. ᚨᚺᚺᚨᚱᚢ Contents: Chapter I. An Early Fright. (0:05) Chapter II. A Guest (9:20) Chapter III. We Compare Notes. (24:13) Chapter IV. Her Habits-A Saunter. (38:07) Ch...

“The Ash Tree” is the fourth of eight stories from the collection “Ghost Stories of an Antiquary,” written by M. R. James and published in 1904. This work is in the public domain. ᚫ

“Ludus de Morte Divi Claudii” (Play on the Death of the Divine Claudius) might be the same work as “Apocolocyntosis Divi Claudii” (The Gourdification of the Divine Claudius), which is known to have been written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger. However, since Claudius does not undergo the titular gourdification in the extant work (Ludus de Morte Divi Claudii), they might be two different wo...

Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, also known as Pliny the Younger, lived 61-113 CE. Curtius Rufus was a Roman magistrate who held office in 43 CE and may be identical with Quintus Curtius Rufus, a historian who wrote around 41 CE. Athenodoros Kananites lived ca. 74 BCE-7 CE, and was a tutor to Gaius Octavius (later Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus). Translated by William Melmoth for an edition publ...

A Phantom Lover was written by Violet Paget and published in 1886 under her pen-name Vernon Lee. This work is in the public domain. ᚷᚨᛁᛊᛏᚨᛚᛁᚲᚨᛉ ᚠᚱᛁᚦᛁᛚᚨᛉ Contents: [author’s introduction] (0:06) 1 (1:17) 2 (4:24) 3 (17:48) 4 (39:26) 5 (48:58) 6 (1:02:27) 7 (1:12:43) 8 (1:19:57) 9 (1:33:41) 10 (1:45:58)

“Mr. Justice Harbottle” is the third of five stories from the collection “In a Glass Darkly,” written by Sheridan Le Fanu and published in 1872. This work is in the public domain. ᛞᛟᛗᛁᛃᛟ Contents: Chapter I. The Judge’s House. (0:05) Chapter II. Mr. Peters. (8:31) Chapter III. Lewis Pyneweck. (18:28) Chapter IV. Interruption in Court. (26:15) Chapter V. Caleb Searcher. (33:29) Chapter VI. Arres...

“Once a Week Won’t Kill You” was written by J. D. Salinger and published in the November/December 1944 edition of Story Magazine. Its copyright failed to be renewed in 1972. This work is in the public domain. ᚹᛟᚷᛁᛉ

Salinger, Go See Eddie

Salinger, The Young Folks

Lukianos, True History

The True Issue / The Pledge - The Columbus Democrat, October 24, 1840

Gróttasǫngr

Three Initiates, The Kybalion

Hárbarðsljóð

Godwin, The Man in the Moone

Voltaire, Micromégas

Irving, Rip Van Winkle

Vǫlundarkviða

Ἐνιαυτός Τεράστιος Mirabilis Annus, or, the Year of Prodigies and Wonders

Ptah-Hotep, The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep

Austen, The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced & Ignorant Historian

Le Corbeau, The Forest Giant