The story hunter: or, Tales of the weird and wild

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

The novel opens with a sprawling preface in which Oscar Wilde lays out his aesthetic creed, insisting that…

The House of Souls

Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen’s “The House of Souls” is a self‑reflective essay that traces the author’s uneasy shift from a…

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

The novel unfolds as a richly layered work of Victorian didactic fiction that intertwines the supernatural…

A young man's story

Sarah Doudney

The work is a short‑fiction tale that blends a gentle romance with a hint of the uncanny.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

The novel opens in a richly described Victorian drawing‑room where Lord Henry, cigarette‑smoke curling in…

The Upper Berth; By the Waters of Paradise

F. Marion Crawford

The volume presents two short works by F. Marion Crawford, originally printed for Christmas annuals and now…