G.K. Chesterton’s Tales of the Long Bow (1925), now newly on Librivox as a free public-domain reading. Not, as you might think from the title, romping tales of the English greenwood from the times of Ivanhoe and Robin Hood. Rather, “impossible” tall tales, humorously mind-bending moustache-twiddling ‘club’ tales, more ably indicated by the titles of the stories themselves…
The Unpresentable Appearance of Colonel Crane.
The Improbable Success of Mr. Owen Hood Kingsnake.
The Unobtrusive Traffic of Captain Pierce.
The Elusive Companion of Parson White.
The Exclusive Luxury of Enoch Oates.
The Unthinkable Theory of Professor Green.
The Unprecedented Architecture of Commander Blair.
The Ultimate Ultimatum of the League of the Long Bow.
“Curious” rather than weird tales, and perhaps of interest to some Tentaclii readers.
The book is also on Archive.org in open PDF, from the Digital Library of India. Here is the dustjacket cover of the 1962 British reprint…
The picture apparently relates to a plan to parachute ‘flying pigs’ across the English countryside, to show that ‘pigs can fly’.
