# Short Stories v005 \[1891-02 to1891-03\] (Bound volume, missing covers & ads)

This is a scan of Volume 005 of Short Stories containing two issues (February 1891 and March 1891). While it doesn't have covers (or ads - or the table of contents) for the individual issues, it does have a nice scan of the original publisher's bound volume binding with the magazine logo on the front cover. These early issues of Short Storie s are far different from the later pulp issues of the magazine that most of us are familiar with. It was closer in format to its contemporary, The Black Cat , but unlike that magazine it relied more on reprints and translations from foreign publications than original content. The stories in the .pdf have been bookmarked for ease of access. With the touch of your mouse pointer, you can instantly go to any story in the bound volume. The February 1891 issue features "The House Of The Seven Heads," an English translation of a rather gruesome Dutch tale by Adriaan Schade van Westrum about an elderly female servant who is left in charge of an Amsterdam mansion when her master goes to his country house for the winter. When seven hapless burglars attempt to rob the home, the servant somehow manages to summon the strength to go Xena, Warrior Princess on the robbers, lopping off their heads one by one with a giant broadsword. The story is based on a Dutch legend about an actual home in Amsterdam, the House of the Heads (known as 'Huis met de Hoofden' in Dutch), a large canal house on the Keizersgracht 123 in Amsterdam. The house was built in…

- Kind: Magazine
- Series: Short Stories
- Year: 1891
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ShortStoriesV005189102To189103CoversAds)
- Licence or status: Public Domain Mark 1.0 (as the archive states it)
- Who can read it: Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says)

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