Swapped Stories

The Five Orange Pips When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which present strange and interesting features that it is no easy matter to know which to choose and which to leave.... [Read More]

Chapter Four JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL—continued I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Countess must have carried me here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but could not arrive at any unquestionable result. To be sure, there were certain small evidences,... [Read More]

The Woman With The Twisted Lip Isa Whitney, sister of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to opium. The habit grew upon her, as I understand, from some foolish freak when she was at college; for having read De Quincey's... [Read More]

Chapter Three JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL—continued When I found that I was a prisoner a sort of wild feeling came over me. I rushed up and down the stairs, trying every door and peering out of every window I could find; but after a little the conviction of my helplessness overpowered... [Read More]

The Fall Of The House Of Usher Son cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne.. —De Béranger. During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing... [Read More]