7 stories
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Robert W. Chambers-
678
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51 parts
A creeping dread clings to these pages, born of dust and decay in forgotten corners of New England and fever-haunted Parisian stages. The sc... -
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Walter Pater-
547
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35 parts
Dust motes dance in the perpetual twilight of second-century Antioch, clinging to the marble of decaying temples and the shadowed folds of M... -
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Mikhail Artsybashev-
516
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46 parts
A suffocating heat clings to the Crimean coast, mirroring the feverish obsession that consumes Sanine. The novel breathes with the languid d... -
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Oscar Wilde-
402
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20 parts
A chill permeates the opulent London drawing-rooms and shadowed alleyways where Dorian Gray’s beauty first blossoms. It is a London steeped ... -
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J.-K. Huysmans-
355
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20 parts
The air hangs thick with the scent of decay and absinthe, clinging to the velvet-lined corridors of a crumbling Parisian apartment. Here, am... -
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J.-K. Huysmans-
231
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23 parts
The air hangs thick with incense and decay, a miasma rising from the crypts of provincial France. Old Chantraine, a disillusioned aristocra... -
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Tanizaki Jun’ichirō-
180
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10 parts
A creeping dread permeates these stories, a humid stillness clinging to the paper like the scent of incense and decay. Each tale unfolds wit... -