No one knew what the picture on the wall of the Province House had once portrayed - it was so shrouded in the gloom of ages. But when the destiny of the city was at stake, a strange thing happened.
The main character, Lord Arthur Savile, is introduced by Lady Windermere to Mr Septimus R. Podgers, a chiromantist, who reads his palm and tells him that it is his destiny to be a murderer. Lord Arthur wants to marry, but decides he has no right to do so until he has committed the murder.
This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, much to the annoyance of its tired ghost. The family -- which refuses to believe in him -- is in Wilde's way a commentary on the British nobility of the day -- and on the Americans, too.
The wife who lied, the lover and the jealous husband: a triangle drama with a grim conclusion.
New creatures from Brazil about to replace men.
A young man finds himself lost on a northern Scottish Isle in a storm, taken in by the hospitality of a young woman and her mother. But he soon discovers there are more dangers on this island than rain and wind.
humorous horror
horror from the author of Sherlock Holmes
The Land of Mist picks up some of the characters who discovered an island full of prehistoric creatures in Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, and sets them exploring the even stranger world of ghosts and spirits.
The earliest Indian treaties on the Science and art of sex and love.