Sách nói: Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 01 October 1896

The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Many writers were largely unknown, but some famous authors also wrote original material for this magazine.
Volume 2 starts off with the following 6 stories in the first issue:
"The house that Jack built", by Harold Donovan Hilton: a young man learns the intriguing story of an uncanny old house
"In the garden of a villa", by R. George Smith Jr.: a female lark sees her tragic love life reflected in the life of a duchess
"A peg-leg ghost", by Wellington Vandiver: strange events finally make a sceptical man believe in the supernatural
"How the run was stopped", by Richard Stillman Powell: to save the bank from bankruptcy, a clerk resorts to an ingenious ruse
"My friend, Walker", by Geraldine Meyrick: a man achieves the impossible of communicating with horses, but at an awful price
"In an hour", by Warwick James Price: in his last hour, a dying scholar muses about his life
- Summary by Sonia