12 stories
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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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Richard Brinsley Sheridan-
577
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26 parts
A creeping fog clings to the cobbled streets of late eighteenth-century London, mirroring the insidious deceit that festers within its gilde... -
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Georgette Heyer-
447
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34 parts
A fog-choked London, thick with whispers and shadowed alleys, clings to the brittle bones of a desperate wager. Not a tale of drawing room r... -
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William Shakespeare-
445
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17 parts
A creeping dread clings to the Italianate gardens and sun-bleached villas where the gentlemen of Navarre, fueled by vows of asceticism, atte... -
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William Congreve-
416
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25 parts
A creeping dread clings to the shadowed estates of Congreve’s world, where ambition festers like a slow poison in the veins of the aristocra... -
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William Shakespeare-
396
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25 parts
A creeping fog of suspicion clings to Messina, where wit sharpens into malice and love is shadowed by the venom of overheard whispers. The a... -
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Max Beerbohm-
383
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28 parts
A fog-choked London, perpetually twilight, clings to the decaying grandeur of the Imperial Hotel. Here, amidst the hushed whispers of faded ... -
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William Wycherley-
377
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24 parts
A creeping dread clings to the shadowed halls of Blackwood Manor, where whispers of lust and deceit coil tighter than the ivy choking its st... -
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Max Beerbohm-
291
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20 parts
A creeping fog of decadent wit clings to these pages, exhaling the scent of dying embers and brittle lace. Beerbohm’s prose, a velvet drape ... -
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Oscar Wilde-
171
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9 parts
A stifled London breathes through silk and shadow, haunted by whispers of scandal and the glint of stolen jewels. The opulent drawing-rooms ... -
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Oscar Wilde-
161
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7 parts
A fog of gilded deceit clings to the drawing rooms and manicured gardens where the shadows of London society dance. Beneath a veneer of wit ... -
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Noël Coward-
130
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6 parts
A creeping dread clings to the crumbling estate of Blackwood Manor, where whispers of inherited madness coil amongst the shadowed corridors.... -