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Wiki: "...they have rediscovered the secret of that famous aqua tofana which was said to have been lost in Perugia."

Wiki: "For a moment, when the door opened, the two friends had caught the sound of a guzla, but it was immediately extinguished..."


Gusle – BCMS collection by Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage

Wiki: "He looks to me like Lord Ruthwen in flesh and blood."

Wiki: "He looked around, like a bewildered man, and his eyes lit on a mouflon’s horn full of powder that his friend Jacopo had left him."

08. I See You Never, 2 stars. The police deport a good hardworking man because his visa expired.
09. Embroidery, 3 stars. Three women catch up on their needlework while the big one goes off.
10. The Big Black and White Game, 3 stars. Baseball game stirs up racial tensions in a small town.

05. The Flying Machine, 2 stars. Emperor has an inventor killed for national security.
06. The Murderer, 3 stars. Psychiatrist evaluates a man that hates noisy distracting technology.
07. The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind, 2 stars. Cities try to one up each other's walls, let the people starve.

01. The Fog Horn, 3 stars. Lighthouse keepers see an ancient creature attracted by the foghorn.
02. The April Witch, 2 stars. Bored witch hijacks the body of a teenager and makes her come on to a man she dislikes.
03. The Wilderness, 2 stars. [2016]
04. The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl, 4 stars. Cuckolded husband becomes untethered trying to clean up his crime scene.

13. After the People Lights Have Gone Off, 2 stars. Woman is paralyzed by a senseless accident, husband freaks out about her sleepwalking/crawling.
14. Uncle, 2 stars. Husband is relieved when his wife dies, continues receiving packages purchased by her.
15. Solve for X, 3 stars. Abducted woman is tortured to produce information she couldn't possibly know.

10. The Dead Are Not, 2 stars. Grieving man can't accept his wife's terminal illness.
11. Xebico, 3 stars. Slacker boyfriend does some research for his girlfriend's play, obsesses over the source material.
12. Second Chances, 2 stars. Grieving scientist is secretive about the new evolutionary developments in her butterflies.

07. The Spider Box, 3 stars. Hastily reassembled box fills up with beasties.
08. Snow Monsters, 2 stars. Strange man offers a father an exchange of lives.
09. Doc's Story, 3 stars. Family of werewolves are always on the run.

04. This Is Love, 2 stars. Gay couple go on a disastrous camping trip.
05. The Spindly Man, 2 stars. Book group has an uninvited guest stop by to stir up misery.
06. The Black Sleeve of Destiny, 3 stars. Angsty teenager uses his hoodie to shoplift.

01. Thirteen, 2 stars. Haunted movie theatre targets middle graders.
02. Brushdogs, 3 stars. Father and son hunting trip flushes out an old predator.
03. Welcome to the Reptile House, 3 stars. Scumbag wannabe tattoo artist desecrates the wrong corpse.

Wiki: "Out of the stream, and waiting for the longest berth at the main wharf, was the Thresher, the fastest and fairest ship on the seas, whose pattern was the Cutty Sark — a vessel from another world and another century."

Wiki: "I was Yu Hsuan-chi's loosed boat afloat on the thou­sand-mile river."

Wiki: "Otherwise, like the Groke, he might just shuffle over mournfully and sit on the lamp."

Wiki: "Dantès had noticed that, approaching land on what he must consider solemn occasions, the master of the Jeune-Amélie would set up two little culverines on pivots, of the sort that might be used in defending a rampart and which, without making much noise, would project a quarter-pound shot a thousand paces."

Wiki: "In the solitude of his dungeon and the desert of his thoughts, he could not reconstruct ages past, revive extinct races or rebuild those antique cities that imagination augments and poeticizes so that they pass before one’s eyes, gigantic and lit by fiery skies, as in Martin’s Babylonian scenes."

10. The Eye of Apollo, 4 stars. Deluded woman falls for a conman and his sun cult, sister protects her assets.
11. The Sign of the Broken Sword, 3 stars. Brown digs into a famous war story where the main heroes on both sides acted out of character.
12. The Three Tools of Death, 3 stars. Cheerful man's murder scene is entirely too convoluted, misunderstandings plague the witnesses.

07. The Wrong Shape, 3 stars. Visit with an invalid poet and his colorful hangers-on goes awry after he gets shanked with an ornate dagger. 
08. The Sins of Prince Saradine, 3 stars. A relaxing boating holiday is interrupted by a visit to a prince's isolated island home.
09. The Hammer of God, 3 stars. Libertine brother of the local clergyman is found dead with his head splattered into the ground.

04. The Flying Stars, 3 stars. Brown sees through a jewel theft disguised as a pantomime play, sets a sinner on the right path.
05. The Invisible Man, 3 stars. Three men propose to the same lady: one short, one squinty, one she prefers.
06. The Honour of Israel Gow, 4 stars. Wealthy recluse dies in his messy home under mysterious circumstances, time to go grave robbing.

01. The Blue Cross, 4 stars. Policeman looking for a tall criminal ends up following the trail of two priests causing a ruckus wherever they go.
02. The Secret Garden, 4 stars. Dinner party is interrupted by the discovery of a dead body and severed head in the garden.
03. The Queer Feet, 4 stars. Exclusive annual dinner for wealthy and powerful men is infiltrated by a famous thief.

Wiki: "Before long they were pestering their parents to take them to see the Bottomless Pit, the Blue John Caves, the pool which could turn things to stone."

Wiki: "On either bank was dense jungle of monstrous aroids, unmoving in the humid silence."

Wiki: "I’ll sooner ge my Esteate to the zinking Fund, that it may be sent to Hannover to corrupt our Nation with."

Wiki: "As when two Doves, or two Wood-pigeons, or as when Strephon and Phyllis (for that comes nearest to the Mark) are retired into some pleasant solitary Grove..."

Wiki: "In a third Place stood the said Thwackum, like King Porus, sullenly submitting to the Conqueror."

Word: "...where Mrs. Honour and the Hartshorn were summoned to her Assistance."

1. The horn or antler of a hart; the substance obtained by rasping, slicing, or calcining the horns of harts, formerly the chief source of ammonia.

2. spirit of hartshorn: the aqueous solution of ammonia. salt of hartshorn: carbonate of ammonia; smelling salts.

Word: "...and a certain liquorish Part of natural Philosophy is often the principal Subject of their Conversation."

1. Pleasant to the palate; gen. sweet, tempting, attractive

2. Of persons, etc.: Fond of delicious fare
  b. gen. and fig. Eagerly desirous, longing, greedy

3. Lecherous, lustful

Wiki: "Ur of the Chaldees."

Wiki: "...its occurrence near the ancient battlefield of Megiddo had been accidental..."