"The Dead in Love" plays with the boundaries between life and death. For example, as Clarimonde is a vampire, she is a creature of hybridity: one that comes from life and from death, neither fully monster nor human. It is through her hybrid nature that she is capable of traveling between the realms of life and death. Her reason for returning from the dead is love and her relationship with Romuald has been compared to the Platonic myth of Aristophanes.Romuald, conflicted about his d...

A woman who loves taking photographs walk on a beach all absorbed in taking beautiful photos. All of a sudden she meets a few naked men and then realize that she ended on the nudist part of the beach. The guys think that she is a voyeur with her camera and they give her a closer look and some action.

A hunter is in the forest looking for a pray. He walk in the woods with his pet panther when the cat suddenly stops and warns him from something hidden behind the trees. He discover a nicely shaped druid elf. The hunter stop his cat before it can attack the druid. The elf is taking off her armour to bath in a pool. The hunter comes closer to have a better look but the druid sees him. He runs away but the druid takes a feline form and catch him quickly and push him down. She regain her orig...

A man, after some time of hiking, is getting back home with sore feet. All he wants is to bath his sore feet and be alone for relaxing. But his friend comes in and she shows him a better way to relieve the pain.

Scientists have acquired the certainty that their friend is on Mars. They set up a laboratory in Tunisia to follow the messages coming from Mars and try to find a way to bring their friend back on Earth. One evening, during a violent and strange storm, a ball of fire falls on the laboratory and they will discover something fantastic...

A young botanist just out of the University is sent to Greece by the Museum of Paris to study the flora. In search of rare plants, he meets two English women, a mother and her daughter, on the path that leads to Parnès. All three were kidnapped by a band of brigands led by Hadgi-Stavros, "the king of the mountains," renowned for his cruelty. Faced with the refusal of the old English lady to pay the ransom, the botanist, enamored of her daughter, tried several times to escape.

It relates the fantastical tale of a contemporary man and the adventures which befall him when he ventures into a Parisian curiosity shop and buys the four-thousand-year-old foot of Princess Hermonthis. He intends to use the foot as a paperweight. In the night, he sees a vision of the princess, who explains her foot has been stolen, and he agrees to return her foot in exchange for a small statuette.

This story is a shortened version of Romeo and Juliet. It is a tragedy about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays.

A Viennese comedian, Henrich, wins every evening a considerable success in the role of the Demon. One night, however, at the two-headed Gasthof Eagle, a stranger disputes the truth of his interpretation and, to convince the audience, starts with a truly diabolical laugh.A few days later, the same man emerges during an intermission in the backstage of the theater, makes Henrich disappear and replaces him on the stage: the whole room cheers his dazzling game. We have guessed it: this...

Shortened version (8 pages) of the story "The Beauty and the Beast". Story edited and translated by Drakinan from the French book "La Belle et la Bête" written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve in 1740.

The story "The Thousand and One Ghosts" is distinguished by the originality of its construction, where each chapter composes a story. It is a series of macabre stories, with a nerve racking atmosphere.Summary: During a hunting party in Fontenay-aux-Roses, Alexander Dumas, who does not have much fun to walk the roads, returns to the city just in time to witness a horrible tragedy: a man having murdered his wife came spontaneously to the mayor, Mr. Ledru. It must be said that the poo...

The story takes place in a castle of the Nordic countries. The narrator tells a strange phenomenon. The hero called Count Oluf has an evil double. The history of this double goes back to the past. The mother of the hero named Edwige lived in a castle. One evening a stranger asked for hospitality to escape a tempest; he was received and remained there for a long time. The stranger, who was a Bohemian and a master singer, had a gleaming crow that beat the measure on his master's shoulder. Th...