A hears by chance a familiar name, and the name
involves a riddle of the past.
B, in love with A, receives an unsigned letter in
which the writer states that she is the mistress of A and begs B not to take
him away from her.
B, compelled by circumstances to be a companion of A
in an isolated place, alters her rosy views of love and marriage when she
discovers, through A, the selfishness of men.
A, an intruder in a strange house, is discovered; he
flees through the nearest door into a windowless closet and is trapped by a
spring lock.
A is so content with what he has that any impulse
toward enterprise is throttled.
A solves an important mystery when falling plaster
reveals the place where some old love letters are concealed.
A-4, missing food from his larder, half believes it
was taken by a “ghost.”
A, a crook, seeks unlawful gain by selling A-8 an
object, X, which A-8 already owns.
A sees a stranger, A-5, stealthily remove papers, X,
from the pocket of another stranger, A-8, who is asleep. A follows A-5.
A sends an infernal machine, X, to his enemy, A-3,
and it falls into the hands of A’s friend, A-2.
Angela tells Philip of her husband’s enlarged
prostate, and asks for money.
Philip, ignorant of her request, has the money
placed in an escrow account.
A discovers that his pal, W, is a girl masquerading
as a boy.
A, discovering that W is a girl masquerading as a
boy, keeps the knowledge to himself and does his utmost to save the masquerader
from annoying experiences.
A, giving ten years of his life to a miserly uncle,
U, in exchange for a college education, loses his ambition and enterprise.
A, undergoing a strange experience among a people
weirdly deluded, discovers the secret of the delusion from Herschel, one of the
victims who has died. By means of information obtained from the notebook, A
succeeds in rescuing the other victims of the delusion.
A dies of psychic shock.
Albert has a dream, or an unusual experience,
psychic or otherwise, which enables him to conquer a serious character weakness
and become successful in his new narrative, “Boris Karloff.”
Silver coins from the Mojave Desert turn up in the
possession of a sinister jeweler.
Three musicians wager that one will win the
affections of the local kapellmeister’s wife; the losers must drown themselves
in a nearby stream.
Ardis, caught in a trap and held powerless under a
huge burning glass, is saved by an eclipse of the sun.
Kent has a dream so vivid that it seems a part of
his waking experience.
A and A-2 meet with a tragic adventure, and A-2 is
killed.
Elvira, seeking to unravel the mystery of a strange
house in the hills, is caught in an electrical storm. During the storm the
house vanishes and the site on which it stood becomes a lake.
Alphonse has a wound, a terrible psychic wound, an
invisible psychic wound, which causes pain in flesh and tissue which,
otherwise, are perfectly healthy and normal.
A has a dream which he conceives to be an actual
experience.
Jenny, homeward bound, drives and drives, and is still
driving, no nearer to her home than she was when she first started.
Petronius B. Furlong’s friend, Morgan Windhover,
receives a wound from which he dies.
Thirteen guests, unknown to one another, gather in a
spooky house to hear Toe reading Buster’s will.
Buster has left everything to Lydia, a beautiful
Siamese girl poet of whom no one has heard.
Lassie and Rex tussle together politely; Lassie,
wounded, is forced to limp home.
In the Mexican gold rush a city planner is found
imprisoned by outlaws in a crude cage of sticks.
More people flow over the dam and more is learned
about the missing electric cactus.
Too many passengers have piled onto a cable car in
San Francisco; the conductor is obliged to push some of them off.
Maddalena, because of certain revelations she has
received, firmly resolves that she will not carry out an enterprise that had
formerly been dear to her heart.
Fog enters into the shaft of a coal mine in Wales.
A violent wind blows the fog around.
Two miners, Shawn and Hillary, are pursued by fumes.
Perhaps Emily’s datebook holds the clue to the
mystery of the seven swans under the upas tree.
Jarvis seeks to manage Emily’s dress shop and place
it on a paying basis. Jarvis’s bibulous friend, Emily, influences Jarvis to
take to drink, scoffing at the doctor who has forbidden Jarvis to indulge in
spirituous liquors.
Jarvis, because of a disturbing experience, is
compelled to turn against his friend, Emily.
A ham has his double, “Donnie,” take his place in an
important enterprise.
Jarvis loses his small fortune in trying to help a
friend.
Lodovico’s friend, Ambrosius, goes insane from
eating the berries of a strange plant, and makes a murderous attack on
Lodovico.
“New narrative” is judged seditious. Hogs from all
over go squealing down the street.
Ambrosius, suffering misfortune, seeks happiness in
the companionship of Joe, and in playing golf.
Arthur, in a city street, has a glimpse of Cathy, a
strange woman who has caused him to become involved in a puzzling mystery.
Cathy, walking in the street, sees Arthur, a
stranger, weeping.
Cathy abandons Arthur after he loses his money and
is injured and sent to a hospital.
Arthur, married to Beatrice, is haunted by memories
of a former sweetheart, Cornelia, a heartless coquette whom Alvin loves.
Sauntering in a park on a fine day in spring, Tricia
and Plotinus encounter a little girl grabbing a rabbit by its ears. As they
remonstrate with her, the girl is transformed into a mature woman who regrets
her feverish act.
Running up to the girl, Alvin stumbles and loses his
coins.
In a nearby dell, two murderers are plotting to
execute a third.
Beatrice loved Alvin before he married.
B, second wife of A, discovers that B-3, A’s first
wife, was unfaithful.
B, wife of A, dons the mask and costume of B-3, A’s
paramour, and meets A as B-3; his memory returns and he forgets B-3, and goes
back to B.
A discovers the “Hortensius,” a lost dialogue of
Cicero, and returns it to the crevice where it lay.
Ambrose marries Phyllis, a nice girl from another
town.
Donnie and Charlene are among the guests invited to
the window.
No one remembers old Everett, who is left to shrivel
in a tower.
Pellegrino, a rough frontiersman in a rough frontier
camp, undertakes to care for an orphan.
Ildebrando constructs a concealed trap, and a person
near to him, Gwen, falls into the trap and cannot escape.
