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THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR by Edgar Allan Poe

THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR by Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on October 14, 2024October 14, 2024 by Every Writer

THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR by Edgar Allan Poe Of course I shall not pretend to consider it any matter for wonder, that the extraordinary case of M. Valdemar

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Questions For Vampires  By Anastasia Gustafson 

Questions For Vampires by Anastasia Gustafson 

Posted on September 11, 2024September 11, 2024 by Every Writer

Marcus didn’t mean to kill Angelina. Not really. But she was dead as a doornail, alright, and white as a sheet. In his candle-lit studio apartment, strewn with white rose petals and piles of books,

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William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on May 3, 2024 by Every Writer

Let me call myself, for the present, William Wilson. The fair page now lying before me need not be sullied with my real appellation. This has been already

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The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

Posted on April 20, 2024May 18, 2024 by Every Writer

Every night in the year, four of us sat in the small parlour of the George at Debenham—the undertaker, and the landlord, and Fettes, and myself.

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The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson

Posted on April 20, 2024April 20, 2024 by Every Writer

There was a man of the Island of Hawaii, whom I shall call Keawe; for the truth is, he still lives, and his name must be kept secret; but the place of his birth was not far from Honaunau, where the bones of Keawe the Great

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SILENCE—A FABLE by Edgar Allan Poe

SILENCE—A FABLE by Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on April 15, 2024April 15, 2024 by Every Writer

“The mountain pinnacles slumber; valleys, crags and caves are silent.”

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Never Bet the Devil Your Head by Edgar Allan Poe

Never Bet the Devil Your Head by Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Every Writer

“Never Bet the Devil Your Head” is a satirical short story by Edgar Allan Poe that follows the life of Toby Dammit

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The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe

The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on March 23, 2024 by Every Writer

“The Purloined Letter” is a detective story by Edgar Allan Poe, featuring the clever and analytical C. Auguste Dupin. The Prefect

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House of the Fall of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

House of the Fall of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Every Writer

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,

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The Sea Raiders by H. G. Wells

The Sea Raiders by H. G. Wells

Posted on February 17, 2024 by Every Writer

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…

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The Moth by H. G. Wells

The Moth by H. G. Wells

Posted on January 17, 2024 by Every Writer

Probably you have heard of Hapley—not W. T. Hapley, the son, but the celebrated Hapley, the Hapley of Periplaneta Hapliia

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After the Race by James Joyce

After the Race by James Joyce

Posted on January 4, 2024 by Every Writer

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

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The Gray Champion  by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Gray Champion by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Posted on January 2, 2024 by Every Writer

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

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The Elves and the Shoemaker by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

The Elves and the Shoemaker by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

Posted on December 18, 2023December 18, 2023 by Every Writer

Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Carl Grimm (1786-1859), more commonly known as the Brothers Grimm, were 19th century German authors, linguists

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After Twenty Years by O. Henry

After Twenty Years by O. Henry

Posted on December 8, 2023 by Every Writer

The policeman on the beat moved up the avenue impressively. The impressiveness was habitual and not for show, for spectators were few.

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