TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea…
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to…
She knew because she could hear it breathing outside her bedroom door. The low growling noises it made as it stood outside her door had woken her up, along with the creaking of floorboards in the hallway. Loud creaking, like a great weight pressing…