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The Giant Wistaria by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Meddle not with my new vine, child! See! Thou hast already broken the tender shoot! Never needle or distaff for thee, and yet thou wilt not be quiet!” The nervous fingers wavered, clutched at a small carnelian cross that hung from her neck, then fell despairingly. “Give me my child, mother, and then I will…

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August Heat & The Clock by W F Harvey

August Heat PHENISTONE ROAD, CLAPHAM. August 20th, 190–. I have had what I believe to be the most remarkable day in my life, and while the events are still fresh in my mind, I wish to put them down on paper as clearly as possible. Let me say at the outset that my name is…

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Mr Guthrie’s Familiar by Glenn Dungan – A Short Scary Story

It’s wild, the things that come to you late at night. Memories that you had thought were long forgotten because they had no significance burble like an overboiled pot. Only until you’re older do you realize that the pot was a witches’ brew in a black cauldron, and you’re a frog that doesn’t realize you…

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Transmigration by Dora Sigerson Shorter

Many men have tasted Hell some moments of their lives—a Hell of their own making, perhaps; but I, oh God! I have been in the Hell of the damned. I cannot remember my father or my mother; oh, wretched that I am! Had I either to love one whom no man loves? No, I cannot…

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My Fellow Travellers by Mary Angela Dickens

The room was the sitting-room of a ladies’ residential flat. There were two people in it—a woman and a girl—ensconced in easy chairs, one on either side of the fire. The woman was the owner of the flat, and the girl had come up with her from the general dining-room after dinner, for coffee and…

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Boxing Night by E F Benson

Hugh Granger was spending Christmas with us, and, as usually happens when he is present, the talk turned on the topics that concern the invisible world, which, though it is sundered from our material plane, sometimes cuts across it, and makes its presence perceived by strange and inexplicable manifestations. He held that his evidence of…

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The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E Wilkins Freeman

“Henry had words with Edward in the study the night before Edward died,” said Caroline Glynn. She was elderly, tall, and harshly thin, with a hard colourlessness of face. She spoke not with acrimony, but with grave severity. Rebecca Ann Glynn, younger, stouter and rosy of face between her crinkling puffs of gray hair, gasped,…

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The Monkey’s Paw by W.W Jacobs – A Scary Story

I.Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment…

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What Was It? by Fitz-James O’Brien

It is, I confess, with considerable diffidence that I approach the strange narrative which I am about to relate. The events which I purpose detailing are of so extraordinary and unheard-of a character that I am quite prepared to meet with an unusual amount of incredulity and scorn. I accept all such beforehand. I have,…

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Lost in a Pyramid; or the Mummy’s Curse by Louisa May Alcott

I “And what are these, Paul?” asked Evelyn, opening a tarnished gold box and examining its contents curiously. “Seeds of some unknown Egyptian plant,” replied Forsyth, with a sudden shadow on his dark face, as he looked down at the three scarlet grains lying in the white hand lifted to him. “Where did you get…

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