Sylvia Townsend Warner

The fairy child, a boy, was born with a caul to Sir Huon and Lady Ulpha. Such children, said the midwife, never drown and keep an unblemished complexion to…

When Jesus said, "Consider the lilies of the field, how they toil not: and yet even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these," he was …

Mr. Edom, of the Abbey Antique Galleries, has come upon a fine pair of duelling pistols which he wishes to show to Mrs. Vibart, a renowned firearms expert.…

William tries to recover the sensation of Oxenhope, Scotland, at the age of 64, after a bout of typhoid. He had experienced it last at the age of 17, when …

The writer, an Englishwoman, reminisces about a visit to a home in Connecticut in the Prohibition era. She had read about New England in the spinster …

Barnby Robinson, an English playwright, decided to live apart from his wife, Melissa, for a six month period. He was going to London to be with Molly …

When the writer was 7 she was taken to visit Cousin Ursula's Castle Pink in Ireland. The place was haunted, and everyone except the owner feared unseen…