Iโm very happy to share with you the 13th title in the Grammaticus Free Library series! The latest release is a story by the American writer William Sydney Porter (1861-1910), better known as O. Henry. Like many of his other short stories, The Gift of the Magi has a delightfully surprising ending.ย
Retro TV tip: A Ghost Story for Christmas (BBC, 1971-1978)
This time of year, my favourite thing to re-watch is the legendary BBC anthology series โA Ghost Story for Christmasโ. Originally broadcast between 1971 and 1978, each episode is a television adaptation of a classic ghost story, very much in the old tradition of wintertime storytelling focused on the supernatural and the otherworldly.ย
A poem for Halloween: โTheme in Yellowโ by Carl Sandburg
In this post you can read Carl Sandburgโs Halloween-themed poem โTheme in Yellow.โ It's a playful, festive, and deeply evocative poem - unusually written from the perspective of a pumpkin!
Free e-book: “My Herbarium” by Anne Wales Abbot
Iโm happy to present the twelfth title in my series of e-books designed for English language learners (and everyone who enjoys a good short story). This one contains a non-fiction story โMy Herbariumโ by Anne Wales Abbot (1808-1908), originally published in her collection of prose and poetry works entitled "Autumn Leaves."
