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Grim Tales

E. Nesbit

Book Overview: 

A collection of gentle stories that draw us into that hidden world where fear is just around the next corner, and where loving hands can touch across the boundaries of death.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .I suppose," she said, laughing softly; and her laughter stirred memories which I just grasped at, and just missed. "But you and I know better, don't we? I will tell you everything you have forgotten. We loved each other—ah! no, you have not forgotten that—and when you came back from the war we were to be married. Our pictures were painted before you went away. You know I was more learned than women of that day. Dear one, when you were gone they said I was a witch. They tried me. They said I should be burned. Just because I had looked at the stars and had gained more knowledge than they, they must needs bind me to a stake and let me be eaten by the fire. And you far away!"

Her whole body trembled and shrank. O love, what dream would have told me that my kisses would soothe even that memory?

"The night before," she went on, "the devil did come to me. I was innocent before—you know it, don't you? And even then my sin was for you—for. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Spooky old tales. Enjoyed the stories!

Great narration by a guy named Peter Yearsley. The stories were kind of samey.

Tam da ait olduğu yüzyılı yansıtan gotik öyküler! Bulup çıkarmak, çeviri programına alıp iyi bir çevirmene teslim etmek, ortaya çıkan işi, başarıyı açıklıyor sanırım. E. Nesbit çağının yangınını edebiyatı, seçtiği gizem, korku unsurları ile süsleyerek oradan bize sesleniyor. "Onu siz de gördünüz mü,

A small number of flimsy stories with a creepy or supernatural theme. The only really good story of the bunch is "Man-Size in Marble," a story I had read before. The premise isn't especially scintillating but the telling of it is really suspenseful and dread-inducing.

The other stories are uneven, so

A short collection of seven ghostly tales by the author better known for her works for younger readers, like The Railway Children and Five Children and It. Of the seven, two are extraordinarily slight (one has the feel of a retold urban legend), and most of the seven are a tad predictable in that th

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