The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 01 October 1896

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LibriVox recording of The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 01 October 1896 by Various. Read in English by John Walker; Anita23; Julie Burks; ToddHW; Sarah Angelici; Greg Giordano The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Many writers were largely unknown, but some famous authors also wrote original material for this magazine. Volume 2 starts off with the following 6 stories in the first issue: > "The house that Jack built", by Harold Donovan Hilton: a young man learns the intriguing story of an uncanny old house > "In the garden of a villa", by R. George Smith Jr.: a female lark sees her tragic love life reflected in the life of a duchess > "A peg-leg ghost", by Wellington Vandiver: strange events finally make a sceptical man believe in the supernatural > "How the run was stopped", by Richard Stillman Powell: to save the bank from bankruptcy, a clerk resorts to an ingenious ruse > "My friend, Walker", by Geraldine Meyrick: a man achieves the impossible of communicating with horses, but at an awful price > "In an hour", by Warwick James Price: in his last hour, a dying scholar muses about his life -…

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librivox; audiobooks;adventure; romance; Mystery; suspense; magazine; uncanny

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