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Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) AURIOL OR THE ELIXIR OF LIFE ...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
Having accomplished his object, the mysterious plunderer thrust his spoil into a leathern bag with which he was provided, tied its mouth, and was about to take his departure by means of a rope-ladder attached to the battlements, when his retreat was suddenly cut off by the gatekeeper, armed with a halberd, and bearing ...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
And so, in fact, it had been. He had become little better than a pair of human bellows. In his hand he held the halberd with which Auriol had been wounded. "So you have been playing the leech, Flapdragon, eh?" cried Baldred. "Ay, marry have I," replied the dwarf, with a wild grin, and displaying a wolfish set of teeth....	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
I bethink me, the rabbi said there was _one_ peril against which the elixir could not guard me--_one_ vulnerable point, by which, like the heel of Achilles, death might reach me! What is it!--where can it lie?" And he relapsed into deep thought. "This uncertainty will poison all my happiness," he continued; "I shall li...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
Like the snake, I shall cast my slough, and come forth younger than I was at twenty." "Meantime, I beseech you to render me some assistance," groaned Auriol, "or, while you are preparing for immortality, I shall expire before your eyes." "Be not afraid," replied Darcy; "you shall take no harm. I will care for you prese...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
Not a word passed between them; but keeping a vigilant look-out, they trudged on with quick, shambling steps. A few sounds arose from the banks of the river, and there was now and then a plash in the water, or a distant cry, betokening some passing craft; but generally all was profoundly still. The quaint, Dutch-lookin...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
His hat was off, and his features, exposed to the full radiance of the moon, looked deathly pale, and though handsome, had a strange sinister expression. He was tall, slight, and well-proportioned; and the general cut of his attire, the tightly-buttoned, single-breasted coat, together with the moustache upon his lip, g...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
For years the evil was felt and complained of, but no effort was made to remedy it, or to cleanse these worse than Augean stables. As the place is now partially, if not altogether, swept away, and a wide and airy street passes through the midst of its foul recesses, a slight sketch may be given of its former appearance...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
The Tinker took a place beside him, and they waited in silence the arrival of the liquor, which, when it came, was disposed of at a couple of pulls; while Mr. Ginger, seeing they were engaged, sauntered towards the card-table, attended by his four-footed companions. "And now," said the Sandman, unable to control his cu...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
Vell, she lost it; and, somehow or other, I found it. She vos in great trouble, and a friend o' mine calls to say she can have the dog agin, but she must pay eight pound for it. She thinks this dear, and a friend o' her own adwises her to wait, sayin' better terms will be offered; so I sends vord by my friend that if s...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
"He don't like to talk of his age unless you can get him i' the humour; but he once told me he didn't know why he lived so long, unless it were owin' to a potion he'd swallowed, vich his master, who was a great conjurer in Queen Bess's days, had brew'd." "Pshaw!" exclaimed Ginger. "I thought you too knowin' a cove, Tin...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
You should have seen the Strand then--a line of noblemen's houses--and as to Lombard Street and Gracechurch Street, with their wealthy goldsmiths' shops--but I don't like to think of 'em." "Vell, I'm content vith Lunnun as it is," replied the Tinker, "'specially as there ain't much chance o' the ould city bein' rewived...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
Persuaded this must be the draught of immortality, I raised it to my lips; but apprehension lest it might be poison stayed my hand. Reassured, however, by the thought of the young man's miraculous recovery, I quaffed the potion. It was as if I had swallowed fire, and at first I thought all was over with me. I shrieked ...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
Concurring in which sentiment, they all descended to the lower room. CHAPTER IV THE IRON-MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER A week had elapsed since Auriol Darcy was conveyed to the iron-merchant's dwelling, after the attack made upon him by the ruffians in the ruined house; and though almost recovered from the serious injuries he...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
"If you must really go," said Ebba, looking up, after a long pause, "I hope we shall see you again?" "Most assuredly," replied Auriol. "I owe your worthy father a deep debt of gratitude--a debt which, I fear, I shall never be able to repay." "My father is more than repaid in saving your life," she replied. "I am sure h...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
Without pausing for further investigation, he took firm hold of the leathern wings of the dwarf, and with his disengaged hand propelled himself towards the shore, dragging the other after him. The next instant he reached the bank, clambered up the low brickwork, and placed his burden in safety. The noise of the plunge ...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
"But you neglected to tell me how to acknowledge the gift." "I could not give an address at the moment," said Auriol. "Well, I am glad to find you have got the use of your arm again," observed the iron-merchant; "but I can't say you look so well as when you left us. You seem paler--eh? what do you think, Ebba?" "Mr. Da...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
"It's no gammon," said Ginger. "Look at them ears, miss--vy, they're as long as your own ringlets--and them pads--an' I'm sure you von't say she's dear at twenty pound." "She's a lovely little creature, indeed," returned Ebba, again patting the animal's head. While this was passing, two men of very suspicious mien, ens...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
"He'll turn up somewhere--never fear," rejoined the Tinker. "But now, sir, that ve fairly understands each other, are you agreeable to our terms? You shall give us an order for the money, and ve'll undertake, on our parts, not to mislest you more." "The pocket-book must be delivered up to me if I assent," said Auriol, ...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
On the block is a judge's wig, which Mr. Trigge has just been dressing, and a little farther, on a higher block, is that of a counsel. On either side of the fireplace are portraits of Lord Eldon and Lord Lyndhurst. Some other portraits of pretty actresses are likewise to be seen. Against the counter rests a board, disp...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
"Sadly," replied Morse. "Well, then, follow me," said the gentleman, "and I'll see what can be done for you." And they left the shop together. CHAPTER IX THE MOON IN THE FIRST QUARTER In spite of his resolution to the contrary, Auriol found it impossible to resist the fascination of Ebba's society, and became a dail...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
[Illustration: Seizure of Ebba.] CHAPTER X THE STATUE AT CHARING CROSS One morning, two persons took their way along Parliament Street and Whitehall, and, chatting as they walked, turned into the entrance of Spring Gardens, for the purpose of looking at the statue at Charing Cross. One of them was remarkable for his...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
ye're upsettin' me, an' all the fruits of my industry," cried an applewoman, against whom the bricklayer had run his barrow. "Divil seize you for a careless wagabone! Why don't you look where ye're goin', and not dhrive into people in that way?" "Axes pardon, Molly," said the bricklayer; "but I was so inter_est_ed in t...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
"As I said to you this mornin', Mr. Thorneycroft," pursued Ginger, "this is a difficult and a dangerous bus'ness, and there's no knowin' wot may come on it. But it's your only chance o' recoverin' your darter." "Yes, it's your only chance," echoed the Tinker. "Ve're about to risk our precious lives for you, sir," said ...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
In this lamp were several burners, which cast a lurid light throughout the chamber. Over it hung a cap equally fantastically fashioned. A dagger, with a richly wrought hilt, was stuck into the table; and beside it lay a strangely shaped mask, an open book, an antique inkstand, and a piece of parchment, on which some ch...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
Nothing could be more dreary than the aspect of the place. The richly-moulded ceiling was festooned with spiders' webs, and in some places had fallen in heaps upon the floor; the glories of the tapestry upon the walls were obliterated by damps; the squares of black and white marble, with which the hall was paved, were ...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life
Undeterred, however, by this warning, Rougemont placed the point of the lever between the interstices of the broken stone, and, exerting all his strength, speedily raised the fragments, and laid open the grave. Within it, in the garb he wore in life, with his white beard streaming to his waist, lay the uncoffined body ...	Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life

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Horror Novel Chunks

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The following novels were used:

- Ainsworth, William Harrison - Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life.txt
- Allen, Grant - The Beckoning Hand, and Other Stories.txt
- Arnold, H. F. (Henry Ferris) - The night wire.txt
- Arthur, Robert - Ring Once for Death.txt
- Austen, Jane - Northanger Abbey.txt
- Balzac, Honoré de - La Grande Breteche.txt
- Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) - The room in the tower, and other stories.txt
- Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) - Visible and Invisible.txt
- Bierce, Ambrose - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.txt
- Bierce, Ambrose - Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories.txt
- Bierce, Ambrose - The Parenticide Club.txt
- Blackwood, Algernon - Day and Night Stories.txt
- Blackwood, Algernon - Four Weird Tales.txt
- Blackwood, Algernon - John Silence, Physician Extraordinary.txt
- Blackwood, Algernon - The Damned.txt
- Blackwood, Algernon - The Garden of Survival.txt
- Blackwood, Algernon - The Wendigo.txt
- Blackwood, Algernon - The Willows.txt
- Blackwood, Algernon - Three John Silence Stories.txt
- Blackwood, Algernon - Three More John Silence Stories.txt
- Bradbury, Ray - Asleep in Armageddon.txt
- Bradbury, Ray - Pillar of Fire.txt
- Brennan, Joseph Payne - Scream at midnight.txt
- Brown, Charles Brockden - Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793.txt
- Brown, Charles Brockden - Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker.txt
- Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William) - The King in Yellow.txt
- Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William) - The Mystery of Choice.txt
- Clark, Dale - In the Dark.txt
- Compton, Paul - The Diary of Philip Westerly.txt
- Danziger, Adolphe - The last test.txt
- De la Mare, Walter - The Return.txt
- De Vet, Charles V. - There is a Reaper ....txt
- Doyle, Arthur Conan - Round the Fire Stories.txt
- Doyle, Arthur Conan - Tales of Terror and Mystery.txt
- Eshbach, Lloyd Arthur - Isle of the Undead.txt
- Falkner, John Meade - The Lost Stradivarius.txt
- Ferris, Benjamin - The Invaders.txt
- Frank, Waldo David - Chalk face.txt
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn - The Doom of the Griffiths.txt
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn - The Poor Clare.txt
- Gautier, Théophile - Clarimonde.txt
- Gautier, Théophile - The Mummy's Foot.txt
- Glad, Victoria - Each Man Kills.txt
- Halidom, M. Y. - Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume I.txt
- Halidom, M. Y. - Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II.txt
- Halidom, M. Y. - Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III.txt
- Hodgson, William Hope - Carnacki, the Ghost Finder.txt
- Hodgson, William Hope - The Ghost Pirates.txt
- Hodgson, William Hope - The House on the Borderland.txt
- Hodgson, William Hope - The Night Land.txt
- Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin) - Black Canaan.txt
- Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin) - Black hound of death.txt
- Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin) - Dig me no grave.txt
- Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin) - Rattle of bones.txt
- Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin) - Sea curse.txt
- Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin) - The dream snake.txt
- Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin) - The fearsome touch of death.txt
- Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin) - The fire of Asshurbanipal.txt
- Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin) - The grisly horror.txt
- Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin) - The haunter of the ring.txt
- Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin) - The hyena.txt
- Jacobi, Carl - The Dangerous Scarecrow.txt
- Jakes, John - The Most Horrible Story.txt
- James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw.txt
- James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes) - A Thin Ghost and Others.txt
- James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes) - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.txt
- Keller, David H. (David Henry) - Tiger Cat.txt
- Kuttner, Henry - The Secret of Kralitz.txt
- Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan - Carmilla.txt
- Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan - The Evil Guest.txt
- Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan - The Room in the Dragon Volant.txt
- Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan - The Watcher, and other weird stories.txt
- Leiber, Fritz - Conjure wife.txt
- Leroux, Gaston - The Phantom of the Opera.txt
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) - At the mountains of madness.txt
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) - Cool air.txt
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) - He.txt
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) - Medusa's coil.txt
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) - The call of Cthulhu.txt
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) - The colour out of space.txt
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) - The curse of Yig.txt
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) - The Dunwich Horror.txt
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) - The festival.txt
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) - The haunter of the dark.txt
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) - The horror at Red Hook.txt
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) - The lurking fear.txt
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) - The shadow over Innsmouth.txt
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) - The Shunned House.txt
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) - The thing on the door-step.txt
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) - Through the gates of the silver key.txt
- Lowndes, Marie Belloc - Studies in love and in terror.txt
- Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron - The Haunted and the Haunters; Or, The House and the Brain.txt
- Machen, Arthur - The Great God Pan.txt
- Machen, Arthur - The House of Souls.txt
- Machen, Arthur - The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations.txt
- Marks, Winston K. (Winston Kinney) - Brown John's Body.txt
- Marryat, Florence - The blood of the vampire.txt
- Marryat, Frederick - The Phantom Ship.txt
- Maturin, Charles Robert - Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 1.txt
- Maturin, Charles Robert - Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 2.txt
- Maturin, Charles Robert - Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 3.txt
- Maturin, Charles Robert - Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 4.txt
- Middleton, Richard - The Ghost Ship.txt
- Nabl, Franz - The Long Arm.txt
- O'Donnell, Elliott - Animal Ghosts; Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter.txt
- O'Donnell, Elliott - Scottish Ghost Stories.txt
- O'Donnell, Elliott - The Sorcery Club.txt
- Onions, Oliver - Widdershins.txt
- Peirce, Earl - Doom of the House of Duryea.txt
- Peterson, Don - The White Feather Hex.txt
- Poe, Edgar Allan - First Project Gutenberg Collection of Edgar Allan Poe.txt
- Poe, Edgar Allan - Le Corbeau = The Raven.txt
- Poe, Edgar Allan - The Cask of Amontillado.txt
- Poe, Edgar Allan - The Fall of the House of Usher.txt
- Poe, Edgar Allan - The Masque of the Red Death.txt
- Poe, Edgar Allan - The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1.txt
- Poe, Edgar Allan - The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2.txt
- Poe, Edgar Allan - The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3.txt
- Poe, Edgar Allan - The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4.txt
- Poe, Edgar Allan - The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5.txt
- Polidori, John William - The Vampyre; a Tale.txt
- Pratt, Ambrose - The Living Mummy.txt
- Prest, Thomas Peckett - The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance..txt
- Prest, Thomas Peckett - Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood.txt
- Radcliffe, Ann Ward - The Mysteries of Udolpho.txt
- Romero, George A. - Night of the Living Dead.txt
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft - Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus.txt
- St. Clair, Margaret - Flowering Evil.txt
- Stamm, Claus - The marrying monster.txt
- Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.txt
- Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Waif Woman.txt
- Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 03.txt
- Stoker, Bram - Dracula's Guest.txt
- Stoker, Bram - The Jewel of Seven Stars.txt
- Stoker, Bram - The Lady of the Shroud.txt
- Stoker, Bram - The Lair of the White Worm.txt
- Stoker, Bram - The Man.txt
- Stuart, William W. - Don't Think About It.txt
- Swet, Pearl Norton - The Medici Boots.txt
- Tenneshaw, S. M. - The Monster.txt
- Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich - Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories.txt
- Unknown Author - Twenty-Five Ghost Stories.txt
- Various - Uncanny Tales.txt
- Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) - A voice from the inner world.txt
- Viereck, George Sylvester - The House of the Vampire.txt
- Walpole, Horace - The Castle of Otranto.txt
- Waltermire, Arthur B. - The Doors of Death.txt
- Weinbaum, Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman) - The Dark Other.txt
- Wellman, Manly Wade - The Golgotha Dancers.txt
- West, Wallace - Listen, children ... listen!.txt

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