Stretching the Boundaries

Didn't know what time it was and the lights were low I leaned back on my radio Some cat was layin' down some rock 'n' roll...

"The Eye of Osiris" is a novel written by Richard Austin Freeman (1862 - 1943). He was a British writer of detective stories, most...

"For a moment the Canterville ghost stood quite motionless in natural indignation; then, dashing the bottle violently upon the polished...

C.S. Lewis wrote "The Chronicles of Narnia" as fantasy novels for children. Written between 1949 and 1954, the series is Lewis'...

"Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their ...

Racconto di M R James dove un collezionista di volumi rari si imbatte, nel paesino dei Pirenei, in un taccuino molto speciale. Il racconto s...

Up to the present day there is much gossip among the Canons about a certain hidden treasure of this Abbot Thomas, for which those of Steinfe...

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half s...

This left only one parcel. Harry picked it up and felt it. It was very light. He unwrapped it. Something fluid  and silvery grey went slithe...

Il delitto di Lord Arthur Savile, titolo originale Lord Arthur Savile's Crime è un racconto di Oscar Wilde del 1887. Il sottotitolo dell...

A dumbledore is a bee (bombo). The Headmaster of Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore, has a name showing one of the features of his character: as a b...

A seafarer... "This is a handy cove," says he at length; "and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?" My f...

"Set in 1890, a business-man named Jabez Wilson, a man with red hair, comes to consult Holmes. He tells them that his young assistant,...

"Dinner over, Carnacki as usual passed round his smokes, snuggled himself down luxuriously in his favourite armchair and went straight ...

This evening, a novel of a black seal engraved with " characters, shaped somewhat like wedges or daggers, as strange and outlandish as ...

William Hope Hodgson was born in 1877. At the age of thirteen, Hodgson ran away from school in an effort to become a sailor. Caught, he retu...

Montague Rhodes James, (1862 – 1936), used the publication name M R James. He was an English mediaeval scholar and provost of King's Col...