Project Gutenberg 2025-08-03 Public domain in the USA. 1991 Suffling, Ernest R. (Ernest Richard) 1855 1911 Suffling, Ernest Richard Suffling, E. R. (Ernest Richard) Hardy, Paul 1862 1942 Hardy, David Paul Frederick The story hunter : $b or, Tales of the weird and wild $aLondon :$bJarrold & Sons, $c1896. Introduction: A hypnotist on wheels -- The strange discovery of Doctor Nosidy -- Two ruined towers -- A strange resurrection -- A visitor from Mars -- Barbe Rouge -- Robin Hood in winter -- Eccles old tower -- The monk's penance -- Doctor Angus Sinclair -- The phantom riders. Susan E., David E. Brown, Andrew Butchers, Sue Clark, Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The story hunter : or, Tales of the weird and wild" by Ernest R. Suffling is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. Framed by a narrator who lives alone in a caravan and hypnotizes chance acquaintances, it gathers weird, speculative, and adventurous tales told first‑hand by his guests. The opening of the volume introduces the narrator’s Bohemian life and his method, leading into “The Strange Discovery of Doctor Nosidy,” where a fervid experimenter claims the soul is “brain‑ether” and builds an electrical device to read thoughts from skulls; failed trials with a mummy and a Saxon king, a quarrelsome modern skull, and bold theorizing culminate in his ethical dread of revealing the secret. The frame then shifts to a storm on the Cornish coast and “Two Ruined Towers”: a wealthy stranger recalls, as a young artist, rescuing a mysterious elder who proves to be the Wandering Jew; together they hide a pump and diving gear, excavate a riverbed between two ancient towers, and, after weeks of night work, recover a vast hoard of gold and gems that the artist later uses for philanthropy as his immortal guide disappears. The section closes by introducing another source, Billy Flowerdue on the Norfolk coast, whose hypnotic reminiscence begins with his Yarmouth youth, an apprenticeship to sea, and a bar‑parlour encounter with a travelling showman and his giant, setting up the next tale. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/the-story-hunter-or-tales-of-the-weird-and-wild/page/n1/mode/2up 20241102123701suffling 1896 GB Reading ease score: 66.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Supernatural -- Fiction Short stories, English Hypnotism -- Fiction PR Text Category: Short Stories Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: British Literature 408560 2025-08-03T03:00:09.743786 text/html 382604 2025-08-03T01:45:55 text/html 1109891 2025-08-03T03:00:28.323732 application/epub+zip 1107593 2025-08-03T03:00:18.048788 application/epub+zip 298464 2025-08-03T03:00:12.744909 application/epub+zip 1585797 2025-08-03T03:00:36.701654 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1319840 2025-08-03T03:00:27.644678 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 369747 2025-08-03T03:00:08.869810 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 349764 2025-08-03T01:45:55 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 5121 2025-08-03T03:00:36.859638 application/rdf+xml 22315 2025-08-03T03:00:17.482740 image/jpeg 3384 2025-08-03T03:00:17.386743 image/jpeg 1453476 2025-08-03T03:00:09.812795 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