Project Gutenberg 2025-04-21 Public domain in the USA. 112 Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion) 1854 1909 Crawford, Francis Marion Snapp, Frank The King's Messenger $aNew York :$bInternational Magazine Company, $c1907. Produced from the November 1907 issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine. Roger Frank "The King's Messenger by F. Marion Crawford" is a short story written during the early 20th century. As a piece of literary fiction, it blends elements of the supernatural and the psychological, exploring themes of mortality, love, and fate. The book revolves around a mysterious dinner party and touches upon the topic of death, presenting it in a symbolic and almost gentle manner. The story centers on the narrator’s experience at a dinner party where the guests, especially the beautiful young Miss Lorna, display an unusual familiarity with each other. As the thirteenth guest arrives—an enigmatic and compelling man—Miss Lorna confides in the narrator that she will be leaving with this man that very night. Through their conversations, it becomes clear that the newcomer embodies more than he seems, his presence casting a strange spell over the group. After dinner, Miss Lorna leaves with the man, and it is only afterwards that the narrator learns from his hostess that the guest is none other than Death himself—the true “King’s Messenger.” The narrative is ultimately revealed to be a dream, which gains poignant significance when the narrator receives a real-life message of Lorna’s sudden passing, merging dream and reality in a meditation on life, love, and mortality. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/sim_cosmopolitan_1907-11_44_1/page/88 20250415103846crawford 1907 US Reading ease score: 78.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Short stories Supernatural -- Fiction Youth and death -- Fiction PS Text Category: Short Stories 46829 2025-07-30T05:47:25.333169 text/html 22430 2025-04-20T22:36:09 text/html 397978 2025-07-30T05:47:28.472147 application/epub+zip 396755 2025-07-30T05:47:26.506174 application/epub+zip 138357 2025-07-30T05:47:25.710192 application/epub+zip 1049711 2025-07-30T05:47:29.882140 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1043450 2025-07-30T05:47:27.952243 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 39885 2025-07-30T05:47:25.100177 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20130 2025-04-20T22:36:09 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16276 2025-07-30T05:47:30.039166 application/rdf+xml 21421 2025-07-30T05:47:25.976157 image/jpeg 3569 2025-07-30T05:47:25.844176 image/jpeg 560621 2025-07-30T05:47:25.346206 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia