Nach dem Freitod ihres Vaters, der die Last seiner hohen Spielschulden nicht mehr ertragen konnte, steht Lady Eleonore Warrington mittellos auf der Straße.
Nach dem Freitod ihres Vaters, der die Last seiner hohen Spielschulden nicht mehr ertragen konnte, steht Lady Eleonore Warrington mittellos auf der Straße.
A lone traveler seeks shelter from an approaching storm in an apparently abandoned house, only to find that it is occupied by a "e;loathsome old, white-bearded, and ragged man.
There was an old Simorgyan legend, Fafhrd had insisted, according to which on the seventh day of the seventh moon of the seventh year of the Sevens-Cycle the king of the sea journeyed to the other end of the earth, leaving his opalescently beautiful green wives and faintly silver-scaled slim concubines free to find them lovers if they could .
I cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at the nameless things that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its slimy bed, worshipping their ancient stone idols and carving their own detestable likenesses on submarine obelisks of water-soaked granite.
A sleepless man watches Polaris winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey.
A meteorite leaves behind globules of colour that do not fall within the range of anything known in the visible spectrum in a shunned place later referred to as the "e;blasted heath"e;.
The modern world has been stripped of imagination and belief in magic when a man gazing from his window upon the stars comes to observe secret vistas unsuspected by normal humanity.
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is often cited as one of the seminal works of short fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world; Elias Canetti described it as "e;one of the few great and perfect works of the poetic imagination written during this century.
In the Plaza of Dark Delights, which lies seven blocks south of the Marsh Gate and extends from the Fountain of Dark Abundance to the Shrine of the Black Virgin, the shop-lights glinted upward no more brightly than the stars glinted down.
The story of a squire who bargained with Native Americans for the secrets of their rituals concerning time and space which were practiced on the land where that squire had recently taken up residence.
Once upon a time in Lankhmar, City of the Black Toga, in the world of Nehwon, two years after the Year of the Feathered Death, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser parted their ways.
The history of a New England street, from its first beginnings as a path in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately followingWorld War I.
The Yellow Wallpaper is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the nineteenth century toward women's physical and mental health.
Three things warned the wizard's apprentice that something was wrong: first the deep-trodden prints of iron-shod hooves along the forest path-he sensed them through his boots before stooping to feel them out in the dark; next, the eerie drone of a bee unnaturally abroad by night; and finally, a faint aromatic odor of burning.
The hideous son of a deformed and unstable albino mother and an unknown father is indoctrinated by his sorcerer grandfather into dark rituals and the study of witchcraft.
A lighthouse keeper engages upon a peculiar fantasy in which a robed, bearded man is piloting a mystical white ship which appears when the moon is full, walking out across the water on a bridge of moonbeams to join him, and together they explore a mystical chain of islands unlike anything that can be found on Earth.
Time traveling, which is not quite the good clean boyish fun it's cracked up to be, started for me when this woman with the sigil on her forehead looked in on me from the open doorway of the hotel bedroom where I'd hidden myself and the bottles and asked me, "e;Look, Buster, do you want to live?
