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The plot involves three men tending a lighthouse on an island off the coast of French Guiana.The rock the lighthouse stands on is dubbed 'Three Skeleton Key', named after a tragedy when three convicts escaping from Cayenne became ship-wrecked on the rock and eventually died of hunger and thirst – the only thing left of them were a heap of bones cleaned off by scavenging birds.
An Astrologer's Day is a thriller, suspense short story by author R. K. Narayan.While it had been published earlier, it was the titular story of Narayan's fourth collection of short stories [1] published in 1947 by Indian Thought Publications. [2]
In literature, films, television, and plays, suspense is a major device for securing and maintaining interest. It may be of several major types: in one, the outcome is uncertain and the suspense resides in the question of who, what, or how; in another, the outcome is inevitable from foregoing events, and the suspense resides in the audience's anxious or frightened anticipation in the question ...
Short story (novelette) taking place 200 years after a global anarchist revolution, where society has stagnated due to the loss of scientific knowledge during the revolt. Elsewhere, the last government, a highly centralized and efficient society, is in hiding from the Anarchist League, a global militia preventing the recreation of any government.
The story was partially inspired by King's part-time job as a gravedigger. [5] The story's title derives from contemporary films such as I Was a Teenage Frankenstein and I Was a Teenage Werewolf. [6] "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber" was the first of King's works to be accepted for publication, albeit he was not paid for it.
The story was again adapted into a radio play as part of the CBS Radio series, Suspense. William Conrad again provided the voice of Leiningen for the August 25, 1957 episode and Luis van Rooten played Leiningen in the November 29, 1959 episode. [4] The story inspired "Trumbo's World", the sixth episode of the television series MacGyver.
"The Cone" is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 in Unicorn. It was intended to be "the opening chapter of a sensational novel set in the Five Towns", later abandoned. [1] The story is set at an ironworks in Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire. An artist is there to depict the industrial landscape; the manager of the ironworks ...
Sing a Song of Sixpence (short story) The Soul of the Croupier; Story of the Bandbox; Story of the House with the Green Blinds; Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk; Story of the Young Man in Holy Orders; Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts; The Stymphalean Birds; The Sunningdale Mystery