The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
> ...Sir Percival unlocked a cupboard beneath one of the book-cases, and produced from it a piece of parchment, folded longwise, many times over. He placed »
The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
> Sitting up in the two beds beside each other, Eleanor and Theodora reached out between and held hands tight; the room was brutally cold and »
Robin Hood and the Beggar, Child Ballad #133
> Come light and listen, you gentlemen all, Hey down, down, and a-down, That mirth do love for to hear, And a story true I' »
The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
> ...everybody in the world seemed so hard and unkind to Maggie: there was no indulgence, no fondness, such as she imagined when she fashioned the »
The Bloody Chamber, by Angela Carter
> The Marquis stood transfixed, utterly dazed, at a loss. It must have been as if he had been watching his beloved Tristan for the twelfth, »