47 stories
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Edward Lear-
6K
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486 parts
A creeping dread clings to the crumbling pages of Lear’s Nonsense Books, not from monstrous beasts or spectral apparitions, but from a far m... -
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O. Henry-
3.2K
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456 parts
Dust motes dance in the gaslight, illuminating a New York draped in perpetual twilight. These stories, brittle as dried leaves, whisper of l... -
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Thomas Hardy-
1.8K
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185 parts
The Wessex countryside breathes a perpetual twilight here, a damp chill clinging to stone farmhouses and winding lanes. These stories aren't... -
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Fyodor Dostoevsky-
1.1K
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127 parts
A suffocating St. Petersburg winter clings to the very stones of the narrative, mirroring the frost creeping into the souls of its character... -
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Wilkie Collins-
1K
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76 parts
A creeping dread clings to the shadowed lanes of England, a suffocating fog woven with whispers of deceit and spectral appearances. The narr... -
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George Eliot-
976
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60 parts
A suffocating current of grief and thwarted desire clings to the damp earth of Dorothia’s world. The Floss, a river both life-giving and des... -
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George Eliot-
944
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74 parts
A creeping fog of expectation clings to the shadowed corners of London society, mirroring the stifled passions within. Here, amidst the sti... -
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William Makepeace Thackeray-
860
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69 parts
A fog-choked London, glimpsed through the gilded bars of ambition. The air hangs thick with the scent of decaying lace and the whispers of c... -
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Edmond de Goncourt-
856
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73 parts
The air hangs thick with brine and decay, clinging to the damp stone of the Breton manor like a shroud. Germinie, a creature born of the sha... -
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Fyodor Dostoevsky-
797
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50 parts
A perpetual twilight clings to the cobbled streets of St. Petersburg, mirroring the fractured state of Prince Myshkin’s mind. He arrives, o... -
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Kate Chopin-
715
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85 parts
The Louisiana air hangs thick and suffocating, draped with Spanish moss and the scent of decay. Within these stories, shadows cling to the o... -
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Honoré de Balzac-
696
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60 parts
Dust motes dance in the fading light of provincial chateaux, mirroring the slow decay of ambition and the brittle fragility of hope. These l... -
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Fyodor Dostoevsky-
687
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58 parts
A St. Petersburg draped in perpetual twilight, where shadows cling to damp cobblestones and the breath of winter never truly leaves the air.... -
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Mark Twain-
628
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47 parts
A suffocating humidity clings to the Mississippi’s banks, mirroring the stifled desperation within young Huck’s heart. The river itself is a... -