“The mountain pinnacles slumber; valleys, crags and caves are silent.”
Classic Authors
Never Bet the Devil Your Head by Edgar Allan Poe
“Never Bet the Devil Your Head” is a satirical short story by Edgar Allan Poe that follows the life of Toby Dammit
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Purloined Letter” is a detective story by Edgar Allan Poe, featuring the clever and analytical C. Auguste Dupin. The Prefect
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be…
House of the Fall of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens,
The White Snake by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
A long time ago there lived a king who was famed for his wisdom through all the land. Nothing was hidden from him
Little Snow-white by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
Once 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
THE GOLDEN GOOSE By Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
There was a man who had three sons, the youngest of whom was called Dummling, and was despised, mocked, and sneered at on every occasion.
Hansel and Gretel By Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
“Hansel and Gretel” is one of the most famous fairy tales collected by the Grimm brothers. It likely has roots in older oral folktales
Rumpelstiltskin By Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
By 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
The Sea Raiders by H. G. Wells
The Sea Raiders by H. G. Wells — Until the extraordinary affair at Sidmouth, the peculiar species Haploteuthis ferox was known to science only generically, on the strength of a half-digested tentacle obtained near the Azores, and a decaying body pecked by birds and nibbled by fish, found early in 1896 by Mr. Jennings, near…
The Moth by H. G. Wells
Probably you have heard of Hapley—not W. T. Hapley, the son, but the celebrated Hapley, the Hapley of Periplaneta Hapliia
After the Race by James Joyce
The 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
The Gray Champion by Nathaniel Hawthorne
There was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution
The Devil in the Belfry by Edgar Allan Poe
The 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