"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

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Lei e’ un cretino, s’informi.

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Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever and Other Stories

Two women in Rome, harbouring a resentment over something that seems shallow at first and then, little by little, it becomes spoken and plain, and terrifying. I didn’t know what I was getting into, with this collection of short stories, and it was the titular

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Spooktober 3 – A Bottle of Perrier

“A Bottle of Perrier” is a short suspense story by Edith Wharton, first published in 1926 in The Saturday Evening Post under the title “A Bottle of Evian.” It was later collected in Certain People (1930). The title was changed because of commercial concerns surrounding

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#Spooktober 2 – Three Skeleton Key

The novel is a short maritime horror story by the French writer Georges-Gustave Toudouze (often listed in English as George G. Toudouze). It first appeared in French in 1927 under the title “La tour d’épouvante” (“The Tower of Terror”), and its first English publication was

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