Over an Absinthe Bottle

by W.C. Morrow

Genres: Short Stories, Horror

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1897

About the author

William Chambers Morrow (7 July 1854, Selma, Alabama – 1923) was an American writer, now noted mainly for his short stories of horror and suspense.

Reviews

[Petra X · Rating 2 out of 5]

Creepy story involving a starving man, a bank robber, a bottle of absinthe, a pair of dice and a pile of filthy lucre. I was going to say that the ending is the wages of sin, but the starving man hadn't done anything, so it's probably that the green fairy came and wafted them away on the wings of wormwood.

Good for while you're waiting for something to cook, or while you get to the front of the bank queue. Other than that, well, no. But, it is an interesting curiosity and being very visual, would make a marvellous half-hour film.

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[Quirkyreader · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a very well written story. Give it a try.

[Per · Rating 3 out of 5]

https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tal...
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/...

Weird Tales reprint of a short story first published as The Pale Dice-Thrower in The Argonaut, January, 1893.

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cg...

[Timothy Morrison]

Creepy story about an hungry man and a gambler and a pair of dice! Not all is as it seems

[Mike Vendetti · Rating 4 out of 5]

A master hustler and bank robber, befriends a starving gentleman on Market Street in San Francisco. He engages the man who hasn't eaten for three days in a game of dice over a bottle of absinthe. The starving man plays amazingly well as he warms his empty stomach with the liquor, so well in fact that the last hand has $148,000.00 on the table. An interesting little story. I narrated an audio book version that will be available on Audible.com in February 2015

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

From BBC Radio 4 Extra:
A grim tale of two strangers drinking and gambling their lives away in a San Francisco bar.