6 stories
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Upton Sinclair
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1.7K
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237 parts
A suffocating darkness clings to the brick and steel of Chicago, not of shadow, but of grease. The stench of rendered fat and simmering ambi... -
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H. G. Wells
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996
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111 parts
The fog clings to the brickwork of London, thick as regret, mirroring the insidious creep of Tono-Bungay’s influence. This is not a tale of ... -
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Theodore Dreiser
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707
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64 parts
A creeping dread clings to the shadowed avenues of New York, mirroring the suffocating ambition of Silas Thorne. Dreiser paints a city not o... -
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Ernest Poole
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517
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44 parts
A creeping dread clings to the shadowed corners of the Winslow estate, a lineage steeped in inherited melancholia. The narrative unfolds not... -
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Booth Tarkington
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450
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34 parts
A creeping dread clings to the brick and brownstone of Indianapolis as young Allan Montague, fresh from a gilded youth abroad, finds himself... -
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Upton Sinclair
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434
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33 parts
A suffocating darkness clings to these pages, not of shadowed forests, but of shadowed men. The air hangs thick with the stench of rot, of b... -