73 stories
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Margaret Ayer Barnes-
1.6K
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111 parts
A creeping dread clings to the salt-laced air of the Maine coast. Within the decaying grandeur of the Penhallow manor, shadowed by generatio... -
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W. Somerset Maugham-
1.4K
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122 parts
A creeping dampness clings to every page, mirroring the suffocating fog that shrouds the lives within. This is a story of shadowed rooms and... -
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Oliver La Farge-
990
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90 parts
The high desert breathes dust and regret. Young Cletus, a boy fractured by the echoes of his father’s ghost, moves through a landscape bleac... -
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Willa Cather-
939
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61 parts
Dust-choked prairies stretch under a bruised, perpetual twilight. The narrative clings to the land like a fever dream, mirroring the brutal ... -
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Charles Dickens-
834
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60 parts
A fog-choked marshland births a boy haunted by shadows—not of his own making, but of a benefactor shrouded in mystery. Pip’s ascent from hum... -
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Thomas Wolfe-
795
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46 parts
A suffocating haze of ambition and decay clings to the brickwork of Altamont, a city steeped in coal dust and the ghosts of fortunes won and... -
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André Gide-
593
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50 parts
A creeping dread clings to the sun-drenched streets of Alexandria, mirroring the rot within the souls of its inhabitants. The air itself is... -
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L. M. Montgomery-
577
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45 parts
A creeping dampness clings to the shadowed corners of Valley of Blue Castles, where Valerian Barclay, a woman withered by years of stifling ... -
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L. M. Montgomery-
574
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39 parts
A creeping mist clings to the orchards of Avonlea, blurring the edges of memory and desire. Though sunlight dapples the fields, a melancholi... -
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Jane Austen-
514
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57 parts
A creeping fog clings to the shadowed lawns of Highbury, mirroring the insidious anxieties that blossom within Emma Woodhouse’s gilded cage.... -
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Eleanor H. Porter-
501
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35 parts
The chipped porcelain of childhood faith, once gleaming with Pollyanna’s relentless optimism, fractures under the weight of years. Here, in ... -
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L. M. Montgomery-
463
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34 parts
Dust motes dance in the perpetual twilight of Avonlea, clinging to the scent of brine and decaying roses. Though ostensibly a tale of sun-dr... -
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Robert Louis Stevenson-
418
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26 parts
A creeping dread clings to the shadowed corners of a boy’s ascension. Within the stifling grandeur of a European court, young Otto, heir to ... -
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D. H. Lawrence-
415
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15 parts
Coal dust clings to the breath of the Nottinghamshire mining valleys, a perpetual twilight mirroring the stifled passions within the Morel h... -