Halloween Mysteries. Эдгар Аллан По
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Название: Halloween Mysteries

Автор: Эдгар Аллан По

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СКАЧАТЬ The Banshees of Ireland

       Some Real American Ghosts

       The Deserted House (E. T. A. Hoffmann)

       The Withered Arm (Thomas Hardy)

       The House and the Brain (Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton)

       The Roll-Call of the Reef (A. T. Quiller-Couch)

       The Open Door (Mrs. Margaret Oliphant)

       The Mysterious Sketch (Erckmann-Chatrian)

       Green Branches (Fiona Macleod)

       The Four-Fifteen Express (Amelia B. Edwards)

       The Were-Wolf (H. B. Marryatt)

       Clarimonde (Théophile Gautier)

       The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral (M. R. James)

       What Was It?

       Paranormal Psychic Stories

       When the World Was Young (Jack London)

       Ligeia

       A Ghost (Lafcadio Hearn)

       The Eyes of the Panther (Ambrose Bierce)

       Photographing Invisible Beings (William T. Stead)

       The Sin-Eater (Fiona Macleod)

       Ghosts in Solid Form (Gambier Bolton)

       The Portal of the Unknown (Andrew Jackson Davis)

       Nature-Spirits, or Elementals (Nizida)

       A Witch's Den (Helena Blavatsky)

       Some Remarkable Experiences of Famous Persons (Walter F. Prince)

       Humorous Mystery Stories

       The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange (A. Conan Doyle)

       Mr. Bloke's Item (Mark Twain)

       The Man with the Pale Eyes (Guy de Maupassant)

       The Mummy's Foot (Théopile Gautier)

       The Diamond Lens (Fitz-James O'Brien)

       Chan Tow The Highrob (Chester Bailey Fernando)

      Detective Stories

       Table of Content

      The Purloined Letter

       (Edgar Allan Poe)

       Table of Content

      Nil sapientiæ odiosius acumine nimio.—Seneca.

      At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18—, I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and meerschaum, in company with my friend, C. Auguste Dupin, in his little back library, or book-closet, au troisième, No. 33 Rue Dunôt, Faubourg St. Germain. For one hour at least we had maintained a profound silence; while each, to any casual observer, might have seemed intently and exclusively occupied with the curling eddies of smoke that oppressed the atmosphere of the chamber. For myself, however, I was mentally discussing certain topics which had formed matter for conversation between us at an earlier period of the evening; I mean the affair of the Rue Morgue and the mystery attending the murder of Marie Roget. I looked upon it, therefore, as something of a coincidence, when the door of our apartment was thrown open and admitted our old acquaintance, Monsieur G——, the Prefect of the Parisian police.

      We gave him a hearty welcome; for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man, and we had not seen him for several years. We had been sitting in the dark, and Dupin now arose for the purpose of lighting a lamp, but sat down again, without doing so, upon G——'s saying that he had called to consult us, or rather to ask the opinion of my friend, about some official business which had occasioned a great deal of trouble.

      "If it is any point requiring reflection," observed Dupin, as he forbore to enkindle the wick, "we shall examine it to better purpose in the dark."

      "That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had the fashion of calling everything "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities."

      "Very true," said Dupin, as he supplied his visitor with a pipe and rolled toward him a comfortable chair.

      "And СКАЧАТЬ