Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith (1902-1945) was an English author, journalist and film critic famous for her supernatural stories. No Ships Pass is a strange tale of a shipwrecked sailor who manages to swim to a remote tropical island. He discovers, to his surprise, that he is not the first sailor to alight there. There are already four castaways ashore...and mysteriously some of them have been there for a very long time. Up to 140 years, in fact. Before long he realises that there is something very peculiar and sinister about the island. He determines to try to escape, whatever the odds.
Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith (1902-1945) was an English author, journalist and film critic famous for her supernatural stories. No Ships Pass is a strange tale of a shipwrecked sailor who manages to swim to a remote tropical island. He discovers, to his surprise, that he is not the first sailor to alight there. There are already four castaways ashore...and mysteriously some of them have been there for a very long time. Up to 140 years, in fact. Before long he realises that there is something very peculiar and sinister about the island. He determines to try to escape, whatever the odds.
A rich and varied collection of classic short stories by British writers:
'Quality' by John Galsworthy
'The Mark on the Wall' by Virginia Woolf
'The Horse Dealer’s Daughter' by D. H. Lawrence
'The Ticking of the Clock' by Louisa Baldwin
'The Fiddler of the Reels' by Thomas Hardy
'The Return' by R. Murray Gilchrist
'Kew Gardens' by Virginia Woolf
'Seashore Macabre' by Hugh Walpole
'Satan’s Circus' by Eleanor Smith
'The Coffin Merchant' by Richard Middleton
'The Everlasting Club' by Arthur Gray
'The Tiger' by Hugh Walpole
'The Ghost Ship' by Richard Middleton
'The Umbrella' by Arnold Bennett
'A Tiger’s Skin' by W. W. Jacobs
'Odour of Chrysanthemums' by D. H. Lawrence
'The Deserter' by Stacy Aumonier
'Lilac' by Hugh Walpole
'A Thread of Scarlet' by J. J. Bell
'The Whistle' by Hugh Walpole
Plus over 25 more great short story classics.
Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith (1902-1945) was an English writer, famous for her supernatural stories.
'Mrs. Raeburn's Waxwork' is an eerie tale about Patrick Lamb, who takes a job as custodian of Mugivan's waxwork exhibition. In the part of the exhibition where all the murderers and freaks are displayed, there is one figure which fascinates him. It is the figure of Mrs. Raeburn, the poisoner.
Every evening as it gets dark, the figure seems to be alive - its expressions change subtly, its eyes seem to follow him.... Gradually he realises that he is bewitched by this beautiful poisoner. And then one afternoon Patrick meets a strange visitor to the exhibition: an elderly woman who introduces herself to him as Mrs. Raeburn....
Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith (1902-1945) was an English author, journalist and film critic. Many of her books, including her extensive oeuvre of ghost stories, involve a circus or gypsy setting, based on her own research and her (unsubstantiated) belief that she had a Romany great grandmother.
Satan's Circus is a creepy tale of a circus run by a sinister and manipulative couple, Carl and Lya Brandt. When a new circus hand, Anatole, joins the troupe in North Africa, he is assigned to work with the menagerie. But as they travel through Spain towards France, Anatole becomes uneasy.
Eventually, as they reach the Basque country, he tries to hand in his notice. But Lya Brandt has guessed his secret, and she uses blackmail to prevent his leaving...and then exacts her grisly revenge for his disloyalty.
