Three Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens originally appeared as Christmas tales.

Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, is highly intriguing. Sir Max Beerbohm wrote it in 1922. It is a story that will keep you glued to what will happen next, and at the same time build your vocabulary. It takes place in Oxford University. Zuleika meets the ?Duke? and they both instantly fall in love. The only problem is, they keep playing a cat and mouse game and the Duke decides that the only way he can show her his love is to die for her. This he plans. He is going to jump in the river during the annual boat races, and cheer (underwater) as the boat team passes overhead, but Zuleika stops him until later. Soon, the word is out of the Duke?s plan, and many of the other young men of the college vow their love and thus decide their fate of dying for her love, as well. Zuleika is a conjurer by profession and thus amplifies the interest of many young men with her charms and tricks.

Several books were found in a repository deep in the bowels of the Space Administration, Planet Earth. Written in Galactic Standard, they tell the story of a small world, Windfallow, whose history is intertwined with that of earth. On Windfallow, man has never sinned, angels are visible and the common building materials are gemstone. The same

Tales of Terror and Mystery is a collection of stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including Horror of the Heights, The Case of Lady Sannox, The Terror of Blue John Gap and The New Catacomb.

The Adventure of the Cardboard Box follows one of the 58 Sherlock Holmes detective stories as written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.