Short Story
[Trigger warning: physical and psychological abuse. Language] Although only nine years of age and small framed, Jack was a sturdy and tough little character who appeared to possess an inexhaustible supply of energy and strength. As such, he was still of the age where this boundless get-up-and-go meant he needed
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[The following is part of the introduction to the 1910 horror novella, The Wendigo, by the English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, Algernon Henry Blackwood. The story was first published in The Lost Valley and Other Stories (Eveleigh Nash, 1910). Members of Priestley's Tales of
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[The following is part of the introduction to the 1850 short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by the American author Washington Irving. He wrote it while living in Birmingham, England, and it was included in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., his collection of thirty-four essays and short
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[The following is part of the prologue introduction to the 1872 Gothic novella, Carmilla, by the Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu. It is one of the earliest known works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula by twenty-five years. Members of Priestley's Tales of the Unexpected