Short stories · 8 chapters

The Last Line

A nervous guest and a very calm niece. Two old friends keeping a promise made twenty years ago. A young couple with one dollar and eighty-seven cents. Two sworn enemies alone in a storm. And a murderer who wants you to know he isn't mad. Saki, O. Henry and Poe, unabridged.

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Chapters

8 chapters

1
The Open Window
A nervous man calls at a country house with a letter of introduction. While he waits, the niece tells him why the French window stays open.
7 min
2
After Twenty Years
On a cold, damp night in New York, a policeman on his beat finds a stranger waiting in a dark doorway. The man has travelled a thousand miles to keep a promise made two decades ago.
7 min
3
The Gift of the Magi, Part 1
It is the day before Christmas, and Della has one dollar and eighty-seven cents to spend on the man she loves best. She turns from the window with a look in her eye, and hurries out into the cold.
7 min
4
The Gift of the Magi, Part 2
Jim comes home to find Della waiting, and something about the way he looks at her frightens her. Then he puts a small package on the table.
5 min
5
The Interlopers, Part 1
On a wild winter night in the Carpathians, a landowner prowls his own forest hunting a man instead of game. Their families have fought over this strip of woodland for three generations, and tonight the two meet alone.
7 min
6
The Interlopers, Part 2
Pinned side by side beneath a fallen tree, two sworn enemies wait for their men to find them. The longer the night goes on, the stranger the old quarrel begins to look.
6 min
7
The Tell-Tale Heart, Part 1
The narrator swears he is not mad, only nervous, and he wants you to hear exactly how calmly he can tell his story. It begins with an old man and one pale blue eye.
6 min
8
The Tell-Tale Heart, Part 2
A thin ray of light falls where the narrator meant it to, and a sound begins in the silent room. By morning there are visitors at the door, and he has never felt so calm.
6 min