38 stories
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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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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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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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Oliver La Farge-
982
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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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Mark Twain-
923
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79 parts
Dust motes dance in the sun-bleached ruins of expectation. A brittle, ironic heat hangs over the Mediterranean, mirroring the slow decay of ... -
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Anatole France-
923
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68 parts
A creeping fog clings to the shores of Penguin Island, a land born not of earth but of the icy breath of the North Atlantic. The narrative d... -
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Georgette Heyer-
766
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53 parts
A creeping dread clings to Roxhythe Hall, a crumbling estate shadowed by ancient oaks and whispered family curses. The chill isn't merely of... -
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P. G. Wodehouse-
761
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57 parts
A creeping fog clings to the manor, not of mist, but of unspoken debts and shadowed expectations. The protagonist, a man adrift in a sea of ... -
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P. G. Wodehouse-
735
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59 parts
A creeping fog clings to the ancestral halls of Blandings Castle, not of mist, but of expectation – expectation of scandal, of clandestine e... -
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Xavier de Maistre-
664
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87 parts
Dust motes dance in the perpetual twilight of Xavier de Maistre’s shadowed rooms. This is not a tale of grand horrors, but of the slow, cree... -
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Owen Johnson-
614
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28 parts
A creeping fog clings to the shadowed quadrangles of New Haven, mirroring the moral rot within Yale’s hallowed halls. Stover, a man forged i... -
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James Branch Cabell-
575
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49 parts
A creeping fog of decadence clings to Dikemark, a domain woven from the threads of forgotten kings and shadowed by the spectral Jest. Here, ... -
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P. G. Wodehouse-
560
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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 Branch Cabell-
525
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56 parts
A creeping dread clings to the shadowed corners of Jurgen’s world, a land steeped in the melancholic decay of ancient magic. The tale unfold... -