"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."

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

#Spooktober 9: The Black Chamber

“The Black Chamber” by Johann August Apel, translated by Thomas De Quincey in Knight’s Quarterly Magazine, Series 1, Volume 1 (1823). You can read it today on my Patreon.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman — The Giant Wistaria

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