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This "Morning News" article from the June 21, 1865 publishing of The Belfast Morning News details the horrific train accident which occurred on June 9th as a result of construction near the village of Staplehurst. The accident, in which a section of…

The following resource is a version of the story of 'The Library Window' provided in the Blackwood Newspaper. One thing to note about the structure of the newspaper version is that it has much smaller text and has less pages then the counterpart…

George Bernard Shaw's "League of Nations" is duct taped to a copy of The Listener newspaper, inside which he had contributed an article. It is taped along with another political leaflet, "Are We Heading For War?". It is fairly similar to the…

One of the common forms of fortune telling from Victorian England was cartomancy, involving the assignment of emotions or conditions to card values. Cards would be drawn for customers or picked randomly by them. There were various techniques of card…

This is an image of the illustration provided at the end of the story in the magazine version of "On the Western Circuit." A girl and boy cupid are displayed to be looking at and holding open a book which states, "The End," with "CMC" initialed at…

This image is inspired by M.R. James' story, "The Diary of Mr. Poynter." This image represents a moment in the story when Mr. Denton is sitting in his chair with his arm hanging over the side of his chair thinking that he is petting his dog, when in…

This image is a modest illustration inspired by M.R. James "The Diary of Mr. Poynter". It vaguely describes how the ghost looks like, accentuating on its hair. This is also at the part of the story where Mr. Denton thinks that he is petting his dog,…