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  Prince Rohan and the Witch's...

  Rachael Komen

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  Prince Rohan, a handsome prince who was cursed by a ruthless witch, and on the day of his coronation, Prince Rohan turned to a hideous creature, a monster covered with horns and fur. 
  After the magicians failed to revive his handsome appearance, the prince creature abandoned his rightful place at king Mile's fortress and went to live in the forest where he met Tilda, the witch's daughter and fell in love not knowing that she was the witch's daughter. The witch who cursed him. 
  They said true love will break the curse, or so they thought.

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  The Resident Patient

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Adventure of the Resident Patient, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Resident Patient" eighteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories....A little digging at police headquarters brings up the rest of the truth. All four of the men were once members of a criminal gang that robbed banks. Blessington's real name was Sutton, and the other three, two of whom played the Russians, were Biddle, Hayward, and Moffat. After robbing the Worthington Bank of £7,000 in 1875, Blessington (or Sutton) had turned informer, and as a result, another gang member, Cartwright, had been hanged for murdering the caretaker, and the other three had each been given 15 years in prison. Blessington's "paranoia" was indeed a very real fear, caused by news of their early release, not by some burglary, as he claimed. The murderers chose hanging as their form of execution to avenge Cartwright...Famous works of the author Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Stories of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World.

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  The Premature Burial

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  "The Premature Burial" is a horror short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1844 in The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. Its main character expresses fear about being buried alive. This fear was common in this period and Poe was taking advantage of the public interest.
  In "The Premature Burial", the first-person unnamed narrator describes his struggle with "attacks of the singular disorder which physicians have agreed to term catalepsy", a condition where he randomly falls into a death-like trance. This leads to his fear of being buried alive ("The true wretchedness", he says, is "to be buried while alive"). He emphasizes his fear by mentioning several people who have been buried alive. In the first case, the tragic accident was only discovered much later, when the victim's crypt was reopened. In others, victims revived and were able to draw attention to themselves in time to be freed from their ghastly prisons.

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  The Black Fawn

  Jim Kjelgaard

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  A heartbreakingly warm and touching tale of a young orphaned boy, sold out of an orphanage to work on a farm; and of his relationship within equally orphaned beautiful, black fawn that he one day stumbles upon in the woods. Will their friendship survive the many obstacles the adults pose in their way, such as hunting?.. A story with a classic, timeless and universal feel and message to it. (By Jim Kjelgaard, published in 1958)

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  3 Men in a Boat

  Jerome K.

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  "Three Men in a Boat" follows the humorous misadventures of three friends - Jerome, George, and Harris - and their trusty dog, Montmorency, as they embark on a boating holiday on the River Thames. The story, a combination of travelogue and comic fiction, takes readers on a delightful journey filled with absurd incidents and hilarious anecdotes. Jerome K. Jerome's witty observations and satirical commentary on Victorian society, coupled with the camaraderie of the three friends, have made this timeless classic a beloved and enduring piece of humorous literature. 
   
  Jerome K. Jerome was a prolific British writer, humorist, and playwright, best known for his comic masterpiece "Three Men in a Boat," published in 1889. His witty and satirical style, coupled with a keen observation of human foibles, made him a popular literary figure of the Victorian era.

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  To Helen II

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  To Helen II: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories.
  
  Helen, thy beauty is to me
  Like those Nicean barks of yore,
  That gently, o’er a perfumed sea,
  The weary way-worn wanderer bore
  To his own native shore.

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