StoryTime with Mark

Jim finds himself enmeshed with the pirates, but with an ally in Long John Silver, and hopefully a chance to reunite with the Doctor, the Captain, and the Squire if all goes well.  

Jim's harrowing time back aboard the Hispaniola and returning to the stockade.

Jim takes matters in to his own hands and strikes out on a mission.

The faithful crew inside the stockade, the mutineers outside, Long John offers a possible truce, which when rejected leads to battle!

Resuming reading Treasure Island.  This section details, mostly from Dr. Livesey's perspective, how they left the Hispaniola and garrisoned the stockade, under a barrage of cannon fire, and how Jim is reunited with the loyal crew.

A tale of adventure and colonial arrogance and wild success and hubris and downfall.  

A very short story about telling stories, or passing stories from one generation to the next.  

A very short story from "Men Without Women" in which a man and a woman have drinks and a tense conversation while waiting for a train to take them to Madrid for an unspecified operation.

One of Poe's greatest tales -- a macabre and gothic tale of madness, illness, family legacy, and the end of the Usher line.

A Sherlock Holmes triple murder mystery set in England but involving a nefarious American organization.  This story is reportedly Doyle's 7th favorite of all his stories.