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  October 2009
Habits of the Artichoke by Fernando Sorrentino
A tutor is given an artichoke plant and soon learns that taking care of it is not going to be easy.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:3 stars
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  December 2007
Starving Makes It Fat by Kay Sexton
Size isn’t everything, but it can mean life or death when Matthew and Liz come to town.
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: 18
- Rating:4 stars
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  October 2006
The Brass Teapot by Tim Macy
When Alice and John buy an antique teapot they get more than they bargained for.
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:5 stars
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  October 2002
The Bell In The Fog by Gertrude Atherton
A writer becomes obsessed with a portrait of a young girl.
- Length: 21 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton
After his life-long friend goes missing near the legendary river Strid, Weigall sets out to look for him.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall by John Kendrick Bangs
An unsually wet ghost soaks the master of Harrowby Hall every Christmas eve.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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The Repairer Of Reputations by Robert W. Chambers
A former mental patient and a deformed eccentric conspire in a fantastic plot.
- Length: 27 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers
An artist and his model are disturbed by the appearence of a pale-faced man in the graveyard below their studio window.
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards
A man becomes lost on a moor in heavy snow and is rescued by a strange, reclusive academic.
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:1 stars
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Ken's Mystery by Julian Hawthorne
An artist returns from Europe a changed man after a frightening experience involving a mysterious woman and a rotting banjo.
- Length: 21 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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Sir Edmund Orme by Henry James
As a man pursues the affections of beautiful young girl, he begins to experience a strange phenomenon that up till that point only affected her mother.
- Length: 24 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe
A short history of and a personal tale concerning the phenomenon of being buried alive.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Cobweb by Saki
When Emma Ladbruk's husband inherits a farm, it comes with an old woman who soon starts to get in the way.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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  December 2001
A Tough Tussle by Ambrose Bierce
At night, in the autumn of 1861, a brave but sensitive Federal officer sits alone in the heart of a forest in western Virginia.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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John Bartine's Watch by Ambrose Bierce
When asked for the time at a party, a man becomes aggressive and is strangely reluctant to look at his watch.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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One Summer Night by Ambrose Bierce
The fact that Henry Armstrong was buried did not seem to him to prove that he was dead ...
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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Staley Fleming's Hallucination by Ambrose Bierce
Every night Staley Fleming wakes and sees in his room, intently watching him, a big black Newfoundland dog.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce
A man is called to give evidence at the coroner's inquiry into the violent death of a hunter.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Death Of Halpin Frayser by Ambrose Bierce
What do an horrific dream and the name 'Catharine Larue' have to do with a man found dead in the hills around the Nappa Valley?
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Haunted Valley by Ambrose Bierce
A man uncovers the dark secret of a mysterious valley owned by a xenophobic drunkard.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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