SILENCE—A FABLE by Edgar Allan Poe
“The mountain pinnacles slumber; valleys, crags and caves are silent.”
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“The mountain pinnacles slumber; valleys, crags and caves are silent.”
Continue reading“Never Bet the Devil Your Head” is a satirical short story by Edgar Allan Poe that follows the life of Toby Dammit
Continue reading“The Purloined Letter” is a detective story by Edgar Allan Poe, featuring the clever and analytical C. Auguste Dupin. The Prefect
Continue readingThe Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could;
Continue readingDuring the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens,
Continue readingA long time ago there lived a king who was famed for his wisdom through all the land. Nothing was hidden from him
Continue readingOnce upon a time in the middle of winter, when the flakes of snow were falling like feathers from the sky, a queen sat at a window sewing, and the frame
Continue readingThere was a man who had three sons, the youngest of whom was called Dummling, and was despised, mocked, and sneered at on every occasion.
Continue reading“Hansel and Gretel” is one of the most famous fairy tales collected by the Grimm brothers. It likely has roots in older oral folktales
Continue readingBy the side of a wood, in a country a long way off, ran a fine stream of water; and upon the stream there stood a mill. The miller’s house was close
Continue readingThe Sea Raiders by H. G. Wells — Until the extraordinary affair at Sidmouth, the peculiar species Haploteuthis ferox was
Continue readingProbably you have heard of Hapley—not W. T. Hapley, the son, but the celebrated Hapley, the Hapley of Periplaneta Hapliia
Continue readingThe cars came scudding in towards Dublin, running evenly like pellets in the groove of the Naas Road. At the crest of the hill at Inchicore sightseers had gathered
Continue readingThere was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution
Continue readingThe Devil in the Belfry by Edgar Allan Poe: Everybody knows, in a general way, that the finest place in the world is—or, alas, was—the Dutch borough of Vondervotteimittiss. Yet as it lies
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