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Let me try to reason it out. This woman, by her own explanation, can dominate my nervous organism. She can project herself into my body and take command of it. She has a parasite soul; yes, she is a parasite, a monstrous parasite. She creeps into my frame as the hermit crab does into the whelk\'s shell. I am powerless! What can I do? I am dealing with forces of which I know nothing. And I can tell no one of my trouble. They would set me down as a madman. Certainly, if it got noised abroad, the university would say that they had no need of a devil-ridden professor. And Agatha! No, no, I must face it alone.

A collection of short stories, some of which have to do with the war. The longest and most noteworthy of the ten tales which make up this book is the one which gives its name to the collection. " Danger!". The most notable thing about “ Danger!" is the fact that it was written about a year and a half before the outbreak of the great war. The events related in it resemble so closely those which have actually transpired during those four years; but when one recollects that no one of these had happened at the date when it was written, it becomes a very remarkable bit of prophecy.

Brigadier Gerard is the hero of a series of historical short stories by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The hero, Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard\'s most notable attribute is his vanity – he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest soldier, greatest swordsman, most accomplished horseman and most gallant lover in all France. Gerard is not entirely wrong, since he displays notable bravery on many occasions, but his self-satisfaction undercuts this quite often. Obsessed with honour and glory, he is always ready with a stirring speech or a gallant remark to a lady. Conan Doyle, in making his hero a vain, and often rather uncomprehending, Frenchman, was able to satirise both the stereotypical English view of the French and – by presenting them from Gerard\'s baffled point of view – English manners and attitudes.

The Mystery of Cloomber

The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

The 22nd issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine features new and classic mystery tales — including a brand new Nero Wolfe story! Included are 7 stories, a poem, all the usual features, and more:Features:From Watson's Notebook, by John H. Watson, M. D.Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha HudsonNon Fiction:SCREEN OF THE CRIME, by Kim NewmanBETTER THAN HOLMES? by Terry Teachout"I'M THE OLD MAN," by Dan AndriaccoFiction:ROEBIUS THE ROBBER, by Eugene D. GoodwinA CLOWN AT MIDNIGHT, by Marc BilgreyCRAFTY OLD BAGS, by Laird LongTHE PURLOINED PLATYPUS, by Marvin KayeA RUDE AWAKENING, by Stan TrybulskiTHE TAHITIAN POWDER BOX MYSTERY, by James HoldingTHE ADVENTURE OF THE CARDBOARD BOX, by Sir Arthur Conan DoylePOETRY:221B, by Vincent StarrettArt & Cartoons:Russell Thornton: Front cover artMarc Bilgrey: Cartoon

"In the month of July of the year 1348, between the feasts of St. Benedict and of St. Swithin, a strange thing came upon England, for out of the east there drifted a monstrous cloud, purple and piled, heavy with evil, climbing slowly up the hushed heaven. In the shadow of that strange cloud the leaves drooped in the trees, the birds ceased their calling, and the cattle and the sheep gathered cowering under the hedges. A gloom fell upon all the land, and men stood with their eyes upon the strange cloud and a heaviness upon their hearts. They crept into the churches where the trembling people were blessed and shriven by the trembling priests. Outside no bird flew, and there came no rustling from the woods, nor any of the homely sounds of Nature. All was still, and nothing moved, save only the great cloud which rolled up and onward, with fold on fold from the black horizon." This book has a beautiful glossy cover and a blank page for the dedication.

fiction; prose, Young Readers

fiction; prose, Young Readers