The complete online text of Over the Side by W. W. Jacobs.

W. W. Jacobs, remembered today almost exclusively for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw" (The Lady of the Barge, 1902), was one of the most popular English humorists of the early twentieth century. His stories, many of them amusing tales of life along t...

Through the school bus window, Rusty Moore saw the Toyota Celica approaching from behind, trying to pass but having trouble."I looked out my right side and I saw an orange car. It had swerved to the right, swerved to the left like it had lost...

A Maryland man was rescued early Monday from the ocean off Florida after he reportedly jumped from a cruise ship, the Coast Guard said.The Carnival Liberty alerted the Coast Guard around 11:35 p.m. Sunday that Scott Durrin, 29, of Rockville, Md., had possibly jumped overboard,...

Relatives of three Australian yachtsmen whose catamaran was found drifting off the Great Barrier Reef vowed Monday to continue searching for the missing men, as theories about their mysterious disappearance emerged.On Sunday, police called off their search for skipper Des Batten, 56, and brothers Peter...

An Indian tribe fastened a massive glass-bottomed walkway to the edge of the Grand Canyon on Wednesday as part of an ambitious tourism center that has angered environmentalists and some tribal members. The Hualapai (pronounced WALL-uh-pie), an impoverished tribe of about 2,200 people at the...