30 stories
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H. G. Wells-
1.5K
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148 parts
A creeping dread clings to the cobbled streets of a quiet English village as the world fractures along lines unseen. The narrative unfolds n... -
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Saki-
1.4K
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145 parts
A creeping chill settles with each precisely-rendered sentence. These tales, brittle as winter branches, unfold within shadowed drawing room... -
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H. G. Wells-
861
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69 parts
Dust motes dance in the perpetual twilight of a life ill-spent. Mr. Polly’s story unfolds not as a grand adventure, but as a slow, creeping... -
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Theodore Dreiser-
661
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62 parts
A creeping dread clings to the polished surfaces of New York society, mirroring the rot beneath the veneer of respectability. Frank Algerno... -
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Theodore Dreiser-
645
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48 parts
A chill wind blows through the brick canyons of Chicago and New York, mirroring the cold ambition that hardens within Carrie Meeber’s heart.... -
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James Stephens-
636
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38 parts
A creeping dread clings to the Irish coast, thick as the bog mire that swallows men whole. Stephens weaves a tale not of heaven or hell, but... -
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Aleksandr Kuprin-
624
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47 parts
A suffocating heat clings to the pages, thick with the dust of forgotten gods and the scent of brine. Kuprin’s *Yama* doesn’t offer a narrat... -
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P. G. Wodehouse-
623
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46 parts
Dust motes dance in the long shadows of a preparatory school, clinging to the chill of ancient stone and echoing with the muffled sounds of ... -
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P. G. Wodehouse-
558
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40 parts
A creeping dread clings to the manor, not of ghouls or specters, but of a suffocating boredom that festers within gilded cages. The air hang... -
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James Stephens-
511
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34 parts
The air hangs thick with peat smoke and the scent of brine, clinging to the desolate Irish coast where Mary, a girl both blessed and cursed ... -
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Anatole France-
494
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36 parts
Dust motes dance in the perpetual twilight of a Parisian attic, where Maurice de Barant, a scholar consumed by decadent curiosity, charts th... -
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P. G. Wodehouse-
484
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34 parts
A fog-choked London, slick with rain and shadowed by gaslight, clings to the periphery of a stolen necklace and a society obsessed with pedi... -
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H. G. Wells-
442
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21 parts
A fog-choked London breathes down the neck of Arthur Kipps, a draper’s assistant adrift in a world of shopkeepers and social strata. But ben... -
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Edgar Rice Burroughs-
437
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28 parts
Beneath a bruised, equatorial sky, a kingdom of emerald rot and shadowed ambition bleeds into the heart of Africa. Not the Eden of youthful ... -