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id: 12124
author: Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)
title: The Well The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 4.
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  * * * * * It was empty when Mrs. Benson came in some time later to say good-night to her son on her way to bed. Poor Wilfred! sighed Mrs. Benson.


id: 4046
author: Blackwood, Algernon
title: The Garden of Survival
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flesch: 74
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  Its origin, I may believe, lies hid in the nature of that Beauty which is truth and love--in the source of our very life, perhaps, which lies hid again with beauty very far away.... those movements beneath the clinging dress that fell in lines of beauty to her feet!


id: 20387
author: James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)
title: A Thin Ghost and Others
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sentence: 1386
flesch: 81
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  'To be sure it was Saul, Doctor, and thank you; and now isn't it King Saul that we read of raising up the dead ghost that was slumbering in its tomb till he disturbed it, and isn't that a strange thing, this young lord to have such a name, and Mr. Simpkins's grandfather to see him out of his window of a dark night going about from one grave to another in the yard with a candle, and them that was with him following through the grass at his heels: and one night him to come right up to old Mr. Simpkins's window that gives on the yard and press his face up against it to find out if there was any one in the room that could see him: and only just time there was for old Mr. Simpkins to drop down like, quiet, just under the window and hold his breath, and not stir till he heard him stepping away again, and this rustling-like in the grass after him as he went, and then when he looked out of his window in the morning there was treadings in the grass and a dead man's bone. Old Mr. Poynter, of Acrington?


id: 8486
author: James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)
title: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
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flesch: 80
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  These finishing touches and farewells, as it turned out, took more time than he had expected. It was not in the personal appearance of the little, dry, wizened old man that the interest lay, for he was precisely like dozens of other church-guardians in France, but in a curious furtive or rather hunted and oppressed air which he had.


id: 9629
author: James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)
title: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories
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sentence: 2619
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  He stopped, feeling that the words were not fitting themselves together in the happiest way, and Mr Cooper cut in, 'Oh, you may rest satisfied of that, Mr Humphreys. 'I was just saying to Mr Humphreys, my dear,' said Mr Cooper, 'that I hope and trust that his residence among us here in Wilsthorpe will be marked as a red-letter day.


id: 10659
author: Blackwood, Algernon
title: Three More John Silence Stories
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flesch: 76
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  She knew every inch of the island and kept turning up in places where she was least expected--for ever wandering about, reading her books in sheltered corners, making little fires on sunless days to worship by to the gods, as she put it, ever finding new pools to dive and bathe in, and swimming day and night in the warm and waveless lagoon like a fish in a huge tank. For the moment, however, Dr. Silence was not of the party.


id: 10832
author: Hodgson, William Hope
title: Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
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flesch: 82
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  Then I went up to my mother's room again, and we talked the thing over for an hour or more, and in the end came to the conclusion that we might, after all, be reading too much into a number of little things; but, you know, inside of us, we did not believe this. The south wall is all windows; but the north and east have rows of doors, leading into the house, whilst the west wall is occupied by the great entrance.


id: 16726
author: Blackwood, Algernon
title: Four Weird Tales
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  Lady Statham was talking--he had not noticed the means by which she effected the abrupt transition--of familiar beliefs of old Egypt; of the Ka, or Double, by whose existence the survival of the soul was possible, even its return into manifested, physical life; of the astrology, or influence of the heavenly bodies upon all sublunar activities; of terrific forms of other life, known to the ancient worship of Atlantis, great Potencies that might be invoked by ritual and ceremonial, and of their lesser influence as recognised in certain lower forms, hence treated with veneration as the Sacred Animal branch of this dim religion. He fancied that he heard her little windy voice come sifting to him through the snowy branches of the trees, calling his name ... that haunting little voice that dived straight to the centre of his life as once, long years ago, two other voices used to do....


id: 26702
author: Lowndes, Marie Belloc
title: Studies in love and in terror
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flesch: 80
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summary:
  The eavesdropper was well aware that such stories are among the everyday occurrences of life, but his knowledge was largely theoretical; John Coxeter was not the sort of man to whom other men are willing to confide their shames, sorrows, or even successes in a field of which the aftermath is generally bitter. Other men did those things.


id: 35517
author: Machen, Arthur
title: The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations
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  But I thought that in the company of scientific men like myself, men who knew the course of discovery, and were aware that the gas that blazes and flares in the gin-palace was once a wild hypothesis; I thought that with such men as these I might hazard my dream--let us say Atlantis, or the philosopher's stone, or what you like--without danger of ridicule. I have felt what it is to be young and a man, I find I have blood in my veins, as other men have.


id: 40510
author: Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
title: The Watcher, and other weird stories
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flesch: 65
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  Said you not, Godfrey, exclaimed Douw, after a long and fruitless gaze from his post of observation, and turning to Schalken--said you not the hour of appointment was at about seven by the clock of the Stadhouse? It had just told seven when I first saw him, sir, answered the student. After much time had been wasted in a fruitless attempt to prevail upon her to reconsider her words, the court proceeded, according to the usual form, to pass sentence.


id: 10624
author: Blackwood, Algernon
title: Three John Silence Stories
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sentence: 3112
flesch: 76
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  I And what is it makes you think I could be of use in this particular case? asked Dr. John Silence, looking across somewhat sceptically at the Swedish lady in the chair facing him. For the honour of accompanying Dr. John Silence on one of his big cases was what many would have considered an empty honour--and risky.


id: 537
author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
title: Tales of Terror and Mystery
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flesch: 80
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  Of course, men have been higher than this both in balloons and in the ascent of mountains. There is surely something divine in man himself that he should rise so superior to the limitations which Creation seemed to impose--rise, too, by such unselfish, heroic devotion as this air-conquest has shown.


id: 45964
author: Blackwood, Algernon
title: Day and Night Stories
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flesch: 84
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  You are on the way to discovery of great things. Also--he reminded himself with a smile--he had lost other things: the expression of youth _


id: 14154
author: Birkhead, Edith
title: The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance
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  The Inquisition scenes of _St. Leon_ were undoubtedly coloured faintly by those of Lewis's _Monk_ (1794) and Mrs. Radcliffe's _Italian_ (1798); but it is characteristic of Godwin that instead of trying to portray the terror of the shadowy hall, he chooses rather to present the argumentative speeches of St. Leon and the Inquisitor. The origin and development of the Gothic Romance are set forth in detail from the appearance of Walpole's _Castle of Otranto_ in 1764 to the publication of Maturin's _Melmoth the Wanderer_ in 1820; and the survey of this phase of the novel is continued, in the later chapters, to modern times.


