"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Mi sono di recente avvicinata alla serie di romanzi gialli di Seishi Yokomizo pubblicati in Italia da Sellerio e che hanno come protagonista Kōsuke Kindaichi, un detective estremamente popolare in Giappone. Ora, indipendentemente dalla qualità dei romanzi, la peculiarità è che in Italia è davvero...
A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. [caption id="attachment_18785" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The cover of a 1921 edition.[/caption] Chapter V: The Pact with Satan Thibault stopped short on the threshold, overcome with astonishment at this re-apparition. "I was saying," began the wolf, as if nothing had happened to interrupt...
Dark and gloomy grew the kingdom of the gnomes in proportion as the light of each individual inhabitant decreased. Many who formerly were like luminous spheres, shedding radiant rays to a considerable distance, now became like dim will-o’-the-wisps, or merely phosphorescent dots or firebugs. As...
A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. [caption id="attachment_18786" align="aligncenter" width="511"] An illustration by Frank Adams to the British edition.[/caption] Chapter IV: The Black Wolf Thibault's first thought was to get himself some supper, for he was terribly tired. The past day had been an eventful one for...
Chapter 7 I was now tolerably well satisfied. From the abject state of a nobody, existing only as a “subject” for scientific observation, looked upon as a hobgoblin, and doomed to vivisection prisoner of a jumping-jack, I had suddenly become somebody of importance, owing to my...
A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. [caption id="attachment_18782" align="aligncenter" width="512"] Illustration by Frank Adams to the British edition.[/caption] Chapter III: Agnelette The Baron took the weapon which Engoulevent handed him, and deliberately examined the boar-spear from point to handle, without saying a word. On the handle had been...
Chapter 6 Adalga, like all the rest of the gnomes, was a spirit, in the same sense as we are spirits ourselves; the term “spirit” implying a centre of consciousness or intelligence, irrespective as to whether the form in which that spiritual power or energy dwells...
Chapter 5 We arrived at the king’s palace, a description of which will undoubtedly interest the reader, and I only regret my inability to do full justice to this subject. The palace consisted of an extensive building of white alabaster upon a rose-coloured marble foundation, and with...
Chapter 4 While I was sleeping I experienced a horrible dream. The jumping-jack before me assumed the features of a baboon, having a great resemblance to Professor Cracker, and besides this there were two grotesque figures standing at the foot of the pole. One was wooden...
It seems that during the consternation caused by this event, I must have unconsciously wandered off, for when I gathered my senses again, I found myself in a strange labyrinth of rocks. In vain I tried to find my way back to the Dragon’s Den;...
