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This story by Arthur Conan Doyle is about the character known as the Reverend Elias B. Hopkins. It was generally understood that the title was an honorary one, awarded due to his many good qualities. He was also called "The Parson" in an area where the flock was scattered and the shepherds few.

The story of the Egyptian priest Sosra who was condemned to live for 3,500 years before he got the chance to join his fiancee, Atma, in the afterlife. A student of Egyptology who had fallen asleep in the Louvre Museum, is a witness to Sosra’s discovery of the elixir that would reunite him with Atma.

This is the story of a university student, John Barrington Cowles, murdered by his lover, Kate Northcott, an evil woman with psychic powers. It is told from the perspective of another university student, so the narrator is not the protagonist.

"John Huxford's Hiatus" is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle first published anonymously in The Cornhill Magazine in 1888. It is about John Huxford who left London for Canada and would send for his fiancée when he found work. But the message never came.

A passenger travelling on the American steamer, The Spartan, becomes suspicious after overhearing the conversation of two other passengers. He suspects they want to destroy the ship with a bomb. He was wrong....

Professor von Baumgarten wants to prove his theory that the sprits of hypnotized people can see one another. His student, Fritz von Hartmann, participates in the experiment. A switch of souls and bodies takes place....

"The Man from Archangel" is part of a collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories, which includes "Tales of Medical Life", and "The Great Brown-Pericord Motor". These stories are in the action-adventure genre.

"A Literary Mosaic" is a comic short story by Arthur Conan Doyle about a man whose ambition was to be a writer. For years, his submissions to publishers were rejected. After receiving an inheritance, he gave up his job to devote himself to writing full-time. Then he had a vision.

Tolstoy’s final novella, The Forged Coupon is an examination of the destructive powers of evil. In Part II, the author shows that good works have a domino effect, just as evil does in Part I.

"The Emperor’s Three Questions" is a parable of an emperor who seeks out a holy man for answers to questions he believes will help him to be a great ruler. Knowing that wisdom needs to be experienced, the holy man cannot just tell the emperor. The answers that unfold in the narrative will be better remembered.

This story, also translated as "The Imp and the Bread", concerns a peasant whose piece of bread was stolen by a little demon who hoped it would make the peasant curse. The opposite happened. The devil was displeased, and the imp set out on a successful three-year plan to make the peasant sin.

A children’s story about the origin of the Great Bear constellation. There was a drought on the earth: The rivers dried up and the trees withered, and and men and beasts died of thirst. One night, a little girl went out with a pitcher to find some water for her sick mother. On her journey, the water and the pitcher took on miraculous properties.

This is the story of the labourer Emelian, who got married to a beautiful woman. When the king of the land saw Emelian’s wife, he fell in love with her. The king and his advisers thought up various schemes to get rid of Emelian, but they all backfired, so the couple lived happily ever after.

A short story by the Russian author and moral philosopher Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, known as Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). The story, first published in 1912 as "Notes of a Madman", is written from the perspective of an individual who seemed to not be quite sane, and who was examined by doctors. The opinions of the doctors were divided; they argued among themselves and came at last to the conclusion that he was not mad. But this was due to the fact that he tried hard during the examination not to be himself.

The selections in this collection include classic short stories "Bartelby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville, "The Truth About Pyecraft" by H. G. Wells, "The Angel Child" by Stephen Crane, "A Journey" by Edith Wharton, "Phyllis and Rosamond" by Vriginia Woolf, and "The Flight of Betsey Lane" by Sarah Orne Jewett.

It is the long, oppressive summer of 1912. Four months ago the RMS Titanic was lost to the Atlantic. In Europe the drumbeats of war grow louder. These things have yet to touch Mr. Sherlock Holmes who, estranged from Dr. Watson, lives in reclusive retirement on the South Downs. The world’s foremost criminal investigator has turned his back on the past, hiding from the world and thinking himself immune to its excesses.

Tim Beckdolt, rangy and self-reliant, is as American as the frontier itself. But after spending eight treacherous months digging $175,000 in gold out of Desperation Peak - all he has left is desperation. Two sadistic strangers have taken his gold, and now they want to take his life. He's on the run - the target of a Devil’s Manhunt.

Lou Prophet loves to keep beautiful women company. But when the invitation comes from Miss Louisa Bonaventure, the Vengeance Queen, he finds himself intimate with hot lead instead of her warm female form. Louisa’s got him riding the brutal Mexican frontier chasing outlaws led by Tony Lazzaro, a notorious thief whose deadly weapon, Sugar Delphi, is a blind and blood-hungry pistolera.

Gavin Guile, once the most powerful man the world had ever seen, has been laid low. He's lost his magic, and now he is on a suicide mission. Failure will condemn the woman he loves. Success will condemn his entire empire. As the White King springs his great traps and the Chromeria itself is threatened by treason and siege, Kip Guile must gather his forces, rally his allies, and scramble to return for one impossible final stand.

Louisiana, 2065. A lot has changed in the 43rd of the Kurian Order. Possessed of an unnatural and legendary hunger, the bloodthirsty Reapers have come to Earth to establish a New Order built on the harvesting of enslaved human souls. They rule the planet. They thrive on the scent of fear. And if it is night, as sure as darkness, they will come. On this pitiless world, the indomitable spirit of mankind still breathes in Lieutenant David Valentine. Brought into the Wolves - an elite guerrilla force sworn to win back Earth - Valentine leads his first command in the Kurian Zone.