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Simply Suspense
Her first thought was: 'I must not scream . . .'
Three stories ...
In a far country, a man must open one of two doors. One door
will bring him love. The other door will kill him.
In a French hotel, a woman goes into her room. But it is not her
room. And someone is with her.
In London, a man stays the night in a waxworks. The killers,
the people with knives, are not real. So why is he afraid?
Three stories, four doors. Be careful when you open them ...
Frank Stockton was born in Philadelphia, USA, in 1834 and died in
1902. He was a very good story-teller all his life and had many
friends. He wrote a lot of books and short stories, but
The Lady or
the Tiger
was his most famous story. People in America talked about
it for years!
Stacey Aumonier (1887-1928) was an English writer. His most
famous story was
The Friends,
about two drinkers. He was ill for a
long time before he died, quite young, at forty-one.
Alfred Burrage (1889-1956) lived from his short stories. He wrote
the first when he was sixteen and then hundreds more. His readers
loved them. Readers in America liked
The Waxwork
very much, so
he turned it into a play for television in 1951. He died in 1956.
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Simply Suspense
The Lady or the Tiger?
FRANK STOCKTON
Miss Bracegirdle's Night of Fear
STACEY AUMONIER
The Waxwork
ALFRED BURRAGE
Level 2
Retold by J.Y.K.Kerr Series Editors:Andy Hopkins and
Jocelyn Potter
Dictionary words:
Some words in this book are darker black than others. Look
them up in your dictionary or try to understand them without a
dictionary first, and then look them up later.
Addison Wesley Longman Limited
Edinburgh Gate, Harlow,
Essex CM20 2JE, England
and Associated Companies throughout the world
ISBN 0 582 40149 6
The Lady or The Tiger
7
was first published in 1884, 'Miss Bracegirdle's Night of Fear
1
was first published as
Miss Bracegirdle Dots Her Duty and Other Stones
in 1923 and
'The Waxwork' was first published as
Someonein the Room
in 1931
This adaptation first published by Penguin Books 1991
This edition first published 1998
Text copyright © J Y Kerr 1991
Illustrations copyright © Richard Johnson 1991
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The Lady or the Tiger?
Many, many years ago there was a
king
in a far country. He
was famous, he was strong and he was very clever. But in his
country he had many wrongdoers. The King was unhappy
about this but how can you stop people from doing wrong?
It is not easy. He thought about this difficult question for a
long time but he could not find the answer.
Suddenly, one day, he had a good
idea.
He spoke to his
people and told them to build a big stadium in the centre of
the city.
'It must be very big and very beautiful,' he told them.
So the people worked hard for many months.
One day, the building was finished. The stadium was
ready. Inside it, there were places for five thousand people.
Everyone was very excited about this beautiful new building.
Some wanted to watch games in the stadium. Others wanted
to have dancing and singing. But what did the King want?
No one knew.
The day of the opening came. Everyone ran to the stadium
to get a place inside. The people got more excited when the
King arrived. They were all quiet, waiting. First, he took his
place. Then, he stood up and spoke.
'My people, my friends,' he said. 'Firstly I want to thank
all the workers for their good work. We now have a beautiful
stadium and it is very well built. Secondly, I know that many
of you want to see games and dancing here. But this stadium
is going to be different. It is not going to be a place for
having a good time. It is going
to
be a place for wrongdoers.
If one of you does something wrong, we are going to bring
him to this place. There he must stand in the middle of this
stadium in front of us all.
'Now, do you all see those two doors, coloured blue, at the

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