115 stories
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Walt Whitman-
8.4K
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735 parts
A creeping dread, not of shadowed castles or crumbling manors, but of boundless, suffocating growth. The prairies stretch not as fields of g... -
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Ambrose Bierce-
6.5K
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959 parts
A creeping dread clings to these verses like graveyard moss to crumbling stone. Bierce doesn’t offer poems of roses and gilded cages, but gl... -
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Ring Lardner-
3K
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236 parts
Dust motes dance in the perpetual twilight of abandoned boarding houses, mirroring the fractured verses scribbled on damp wallpaper. A suffo... -
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Edgar Lee Masters-
2.7K
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250 parts
Dust hangs heavy in the air, a perpetual twilight clinging to the weathered stones of Spoon River Cemetery. Each chipped headstone whispers ... -
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James Branch Cabell-
2.4K
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212 parts
A creeping dread clings to the decaying grandeur of Cabell’s Virginia. Here, in the shadowed corners of old mansions and forgotten histories... -
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Henry van Dyke Jr.-
2.1K
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229 parts
A creeping dread clings to the shadowed corners of Blackwood Manor, where the verses of old Elias Thorne are unearthed after decades of sile... -
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Sinclair Lewis-
2.1K
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197 parts
The dust of revival tents clings to the skin of Elmer Gantry, a phantom heat radiating from a faith forged in desperation. This is a story s... -
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Sinclair Lewis-
1.9K
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235 parts
The chill of rural isolation clings to the very bricks of Arrowsmith’s life. A man driven by scientific fervor, yet tethered to a wife whose... -
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Georgia Douglas Johnson-
1.9K
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210 parts
Dust motes dance in the suffocating heat of a parlor draped in mourning crepe. The air hangs thick with the scent of jasmine and decay, mirr... -
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Mark Twain-
1.8K
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99 parts
Dust motes dance in the perpetual twilight of a Mississippi steeped in regret. This is not the Twain of riverboats and raffish charm, but a ... -
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F. Scott Fitzgerald-
1.7K
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229 parts
Dust motes dance in the fading light of forgotten parlors, mirroring the fractured memories within these stories. Fitzgerald doesn't offer g... -
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Sinclair Lewis-
1.6K
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133 parts
The chill of conformity seeps into the marrow of Zenith, a city built on ambition and brittle smiles. Babbitt, its exemplar, moves through a... -
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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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Langston Hughes-
1.5K
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222 parts
A bruised twilight clings to the shadowed corners of Harlem, where whispers of forgotten gods mingle with the jazzman’s mournful cry. This i... -