A sad story written by O'Brien on an alchemist, his daughter and a doctor who gets caught up with them. Here O'Brien style is appealing but at the same time his vocabulary is simple and accessible to everyone....
Oldiees Publishing, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Guy de Maupassant, Julian Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Conan Doyle, E. F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, Richard Le Gallienne, Washington Irving, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Saki, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Gertrude Atherton, Charles Dickens, John Polidori, John Kendrick Bangs, William Hope Hodgson & Fitz James O'Brien
H. and E. Heron, Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Riddell, Flora Annie Steel, Amelia B. Edwards, Margaret Oliphant, Edward Bellamy, Arnold Bennett, S. Baring-Gould, Daniil Kharms, E. F. Benson, Ella D'Arcy, Jacques Futrelle, Frank Richard Stockton, John Kendrick Bangs, Kenneth Grahame, Julian Hawthorne, A. E. W. Mason, Richard Middleton, Pierre Louÿs, Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, Ethel Richardson, Gertrude Stein, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Mór Jókai, Andy Adams, Bertha Sinclair, Fitz James O'Brien, Eleanor H. Porter, Valery Bryusov, John Ulrich Giesy, Otis Adelbert Kline, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Barry Pain, Gertrude Bennett, Francis Marion Crawford, William Pett Ridge, Gilbert Parker, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Richard Austin Freeman, Alice Duer Miller, Leonard Merrick, Anthony Hope, Ethel Watts Mumford, Anne O'Hagan Shinn, B. M. Bower & August Nemo
Fitz James O'Brien, Francis Marion Crawford, Francis Stevens, Barry Pain, Frank L. Packard, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Otis Adelbert Kline, John Ulrich Giesy, Valery Bryusov, Eleanor H. Porter & August Nemo
