Jack Pansay has just bought an engagement ring for the bewitching Kitty Mannering, yet to his annoyance it is the late Mrs Wessington he is thinking about.

The mayor and corporation of Hamelin outsource a rodent problem to a professional rat-catcher.

A hen-pecked, ne’er-do-well farmer from New York took off into the Catskill Mountains, and fell in with some very odd company.

An Arthurian knight commits a dreadful crime against a woman, and is sent by Queen Guinevere on a fitting errand.

A faithful but unprepossessing pet is turned out of hearth and home.

A duke with a passion for the art of enchantment is stranded by his enemies on a deserted island.