Classic·Gothic Fiction
Legends
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Step into the dark, haunting world of Spanish Romanticism with Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer’s legendary tales of ghosts and the supernatural.
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
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1904 · Complete work
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
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“Scholarly curiosity awakens ancient horrors in the foundational masterpiece of modern English supernatural fiction.”
In cathedral archives, windswept coastal inns, and tranquil Cambridge quadrangles, scholars unearth relics that were better left undisturbed. M. R. James strips supernatural horror of its gothic melodrama, grounding it instead in the quiet dust of academic research. Here, a sinister mezzotint shifts when unobserved, a brass whistle summons an entity from the dunes, and an obscure Latin scrap-book conceals an ancient demonic terror. These eight masterly tales redefined the ghost story, trading ethereal phantoms for tactile, creeping dread and establishing James as the premier architect of the antiquarian nightmare.
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Episode 01
~15 min
Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book
““Very well, my little man,” quoth Dennistoun to himself: “you have been warned, and you must take the consequences.””
2,903 words
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Episode 02
~13 min
Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book (end) and Lost Hearts
““My good man!” he said again and again, “your book is worth far more than two hundred and fifty francs, I assure you—far more.””
2,650 words
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Episode 04
~13 min
Lost Hearts (end) and The Mezzotint
“Mr Abney was found in his chair, his head thrown back, his face stamped with an expression of rage, fright, and mortal pain.”
2,655 words
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Episode 05
~13 min
The Mezzotint (end) and The Ash-tree
““Why, one of the windows on the ground-floor—left of the door—is open.””
2,687 words
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Episode 06
~14 min
The Ash-tree · II
“She was hanged a week after the trial, with five or six more unhappy creatures, at Bury St Edmunds.”
2,737 words
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Episode 07
~13 min
The Ash-tree (end) and Number 13
““Well, Sir Richard,” she said, “you know that there is but the one room like that in the house.””
2,675 words
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Episode 08
~14 min
Number 13 · II
“There was an advocate, or Sagförer, a German, and some bagmen from Copenhagen.”
2,721 words
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Episode 09
~13 min
Number 13 · III
““Then you don’t think there is any particular objection to having a Number 13?” said Anderson.”
2,652 words
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Episode 10
~13 min
Number 13 (end) and Count Magnus
““Young idiot!” he said, meaning Salthenius, who was only an undergraduate when he committed that indiscretion, “how did he know what company he was courting?””
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Episode 11
~14 min
Count Magnus · II
““Tales, I was going to say, which I have forgotten,” said the deacon; and soon after that he said good night.”
2,792 words
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Episode 12
~13 min
“Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”
““Do you call having an extra bed in your room roughing it, Parkins?” said a bluff person opposite.”
2,696 words
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Episode 13
~14 min
“Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” · II
“I put it on your chest of drawers, sir, in your room, sir—a piece of a pipe or somethink of that, sir.”
2,734 words
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Episode 14
~13 min
“Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” (end) and The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
““Ow, I seen it wive at me out of the winder,” wailed the boy, “and I don’t like it.””
2,509 words
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Episode 15
~6 min
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas · II
““Well, it may as well be done first as last,” and accordingly the following rendering was very quickly produced:”
1,208 words
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Episode 16
~8 min
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas · III
“The inn where the English gentleman and his servant were lodged is, or was, the only “possible” one in the village.”
1,576 words
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Episode 17
~14 min
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas · IV
“Each of the figures had, as the inscription said, ‘a writing on their vestures which nobody knew’.”
2,754 words
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Episode 18
~9 min
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas · V
“So far the Abbot’s data had been exact, and, as I thought of this, the anxiety about the ‘guardian’ returned upon me with increased force.”
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Public-domain work (1904). Text: Project Gutenberg #8486. The Spanish version is an AI-assisted translation and may contain errors. Digital edition by Inkora Stories. Learn more