Resultados para "The Skull" en Antologías y relatos breves

Have you ever wondered, in the back of your mind, if you could make a wish come true? That's exactly what happened to Dr. Murray when on an expedition with a group of archeologists to the Aztec ruins. Dr. Murray was known as a dreamer, with an overactive imagination - so even if he were to tell someone that he made a wish and it came true, no one would believe him. Dr. Murray is what you might call the little boy who cried wolf. And he was one of seven young archeologists eager to make a name for himself....

The Screaming Skull is one of F. Marion Crawford's Uncanny Tales, which was first published, posthumously, in London in 1911 and was issued two weeks later in America as Wandering Ghosts.

Francis Marion Crawford, an only child, was born on 2nd August 1854 at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. He was a nephew to Julia Ward Howe, the American poet and writer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". Crawford was educated at St Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and then on to Cambridge University, the University of Heidelberg and the University of Rome. In 1879, he went to India, to study Sanskrit and then to edit The Indian Herald. In 1881, he returned to America to continue his Sanskrit studies at Harvard University.

Each the darkest of tales. Skeletons in the cupboards of the mind. Shackled in a dungeon. Rattling the cages. Bones jangling as they grinningly emerge.Meet a hungry old woman who roasts her victims.A grieving father intent on rape and murder. A sex-slave nurse who uses lizards to kill. A...