Clothes alter our very nature. A man could not help being fierce and daring with a plume in his bonnet, a dagger in his belt, and a lot of puffy white things all down his sleeves.… Read More Idle Thoughts from an Idle Fellow: On Dress and Deportment
Curious, that in lodgings the rule of life is reversed. The higher you get up in the world the lower you come down in your lodgings. On the lodging-house ladder the poor man is at the top, the rich man underneath.… Read More Idle Thoughts from an Idle Fellow: On Furnished Apartments
I always feel sentimental myself after dinner. It is the only time when I can properly appreciate love-stories.… Read More Idle Thoughts from an Idle Fellow: On Eating and Drinking
I love the fierce strife. I like to watch it. I like to hear of people getting on in it—battling their way bravely and fairly—that is, not slipping through by luck or trickery.… Read More Idle Thoughts from an Idle Fellow: On Getting on in the World
You shouldn’t go to bed angry with someone you love, and you certainly shouldn’t tell them you’ll never speak to them again. Especially when they are so desperately in love with you that they’d come back from anywhere, even the dead, to say they love you one more time.… Read More Grim Tales-From the Dead
The woman you love is set to marry another man, one she doesn’t love. You can’t sleep, how could you? And where is that ghostly music coming from?… Read More Grim Tales-Mass for the Dead
Those sure are spooky statues up at the church. And it sure is strange that the housekeeper quit after telling how those statues come alive and come back to wreak havoc in the house you just rented. But don’t worry. I’m sure everything will be fine.… Read More Grim Tales-Man-sized in Marble
Nothing good comes from exploring an empty house, and it’s even worse when you find your lover’s still body, throat cut. Or did you? Or will you in the days to come?… Read More Grim Tales-The Mystery of the Semi-Detatched
Would it matter if your lady love only met you by the tombstones? And only when the moon was right? And would it matter at all if she had already been dead for a hundred years?… Read More Grim Tales-Uncle Abraham’s Romance
A little fish pleads with a fisherman for his life, and the fisherman’s reaction is of course, handled quite differently in Aesop and Ambrose’s telling of it.… Read More Aesop vs Ambrose: The Fisherman and the Little Fish
Kay Mack 