The Shears of Atropos by Henry C. Rowland is presented in a clean English digital edition with active navigation. The book belongs to classics and preserves the character of the source text for sustained ebook reading. The opening pages establish the work's atmosphere with this first movement: WILL you please tell me why it is, Doctor," said Leyden, "that when you and I are foregathered in this part of the ship at this hour of the evening we must immediately proceed to rake the lockers of our recollection for the morbid and anomalous?" I told him that it was perhaps because the accent of a man's mind was lar. Detected sections include: The Shears of Atropos. This edition is prepared for a fluent reading experience with clear typography and no extraneous promotional material.