NIGHTMARE TALES

Nightmare Tales contains a collection of five spooky tales including "From the Polar Lands" and "The Ensouled Violin."

Brief fragment the work:

HE CAVE OF THE ECOS A STRANGE, BUT TRUE STORY [1]

N ONE of the most distant provinces of the Russian Empire and in a small
border city to Siberia, tragedy occurred more than thirty years ago
mysterious About six versts from the city of P ..., famous for its beauty
wild of its countryside and the wealth of its inhabitants, in general owners of
mines and iron foundries, there was an aristocratic mansion. The family that
lived was composed of the owner, old and rich bachelor, and his brother, widower with two
sons and three daughters. It was known that the owner, Mr. Izvertzoff, had adopted the children
of his brother, and having taken a special affection for the eldest of his nephews,
called Nicholas, he instituted sole heir of his numerous States.

Time passed. The uncle grew older and the nephew approached his oldest age. The days and
the years had passed in a monotonous serenity, when in the until then clear
horizon of the family formed a cloud. On a miserable day one of the
nieces learn to play the zither. As the instrument is of purely Teutonic origin, and
As no teacher could be found in the vicinity, the complacent uncle sent
look for one and another to St. Petersburg. After a thorough investigation, he could only
be with a teacher who would not mind to venture so close to the
Siberia. He was a German artist, old, who, sharing his affection equally between his
instrument and his daughter, blonde and pretty, did not want to separate from either of them. ..