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It was not meant that we should voyage far.

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The Arkham Archivist - Full works PDF and EPUB

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The H. P. Lovecraft archive - Fan site, works and biography

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A brash introduction from Lovecraft to Weird Tales magazine

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Clark Ashton Smith (Friend and Colleague)

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Comedies and tragedies of human failings.

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If Iona’s heart were to burst and his misery to flow out, it would flood the whole world.

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Hardy tales of the tough Australian life.

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I wonder would the apathy of wealthy men endure - Were all their windows level with the faces of the poor?

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Glorious poems of the Australian outback.

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Where a horse’s hoofs strike firelight from the flint stones every stride.

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Australian Dictionary of Biography - Banjo Paterson

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This was destined to be the scene of the outbreak of war between Leiningen’s brain and twenty square miles of life-destroying ants.

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Supernatural stories of both faith and grief.

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When I went to the door again, daylight was above me, and the ghost was gone.

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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don’t know.

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Sherlock-hom.es - The Complete Sherlock Holmes Canon

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Project Gutenberg- Tales of Terror and Mystery

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Poems on grief and tales of gothic karma.

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And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor.

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illneas - A reading of Poe’s poem ‘Alone’

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The Simpsons - An adaptation of Poe’s poem ‘The Raven’

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You have heard from a great many people who did something in the war, is it not fair and right that you listen a little moment to one who started out to do something in it but didn’t?

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The Private History of a Campaign that Failed

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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

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Art is highly overrated in importance, by artists in particular.

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If you care to come with me, I will show you something which is the quintessence of all horror.

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Eldritch Dark - Clark Ashton Smith works and discussion

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No one had any reason to be dissatisfied with what he had seen, no one, that is, except for the starvation artist, he alone, always.

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There were no words to utter her rapture and thanksgiving at beholding the blue unfathomable June sky.

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Stories of women’s struggles and ambitions.

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He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.

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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

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Speculative fantasy and prophetic sci-fi.

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In truth, I could not believe it a dream for all the sobering reality of things about me.

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Hilarious Trailer for the film adaptation of Empire of Ants

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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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Poetry that braves suffering and appreciates life.

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O, it’s die we must, but it’s live we can.

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illneas - A reading of Poe’s poem ‘Invictus’

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The Poetry Foundation - William Ernest Henley

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I never before saw a man that would sell his sister for a dictionary!

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The four walls of a room were an irk and a restraint. He heard a thousand voices whispering to him through the darkness. The night called to him.

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For, Lord, it’s only some fool kind of creature that would have crawled out of the sea to dry land in the first place.

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Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét - Volume 2 - Prose 

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Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow.

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Project Gutenberg - The Happy Prince And Other Tales

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Project Gutenberg - The Poetry of Oscar Wilde

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Tragedies of unrequited love and terrors of abominable aberrations.

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I am the servant of God; it is right for me to know the reason of His deeds, or to guess it if I do not know it.

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Project Gutenberg - The entire collection of Maupassant short stories

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What do these friends from space want in return?

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Free Speculative Fiction Online - Asimov

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Discomforting gothic tales of sin and beauty.

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Even Pygmalion, when his sculptured woman assumed life, felt not greater ecstasy than mine will be.

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‘Life,’ I said to myself, ‘is as empty as a used cantaloupe.’ What had I to live for?

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Project Gutenberg - Apes and Angels Short Story Collection

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Project Gutenberg - The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and Other Humorous Tales

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Dainty and daring renditions of English folk tales.

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What would you answer, not to a judge or to the authorities, or even to the emperor, but to your own conscience.

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Ours is the wild tumult of the unchained storm, the tumult of the army on the march, clashing its cymbals, rioting with excess of energy. Need we be ashamed of it?

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And, after all, how many pretty women are there in New York? Seventeen?

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Short Stories, Five Decades by Irwin Shaw

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I thought those Grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

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Library of Congress - Modernised and Illustrated Aesop Fables

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Internet Encylopedia of Philosophy - Aesop’s Fables

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Brutal depictions of war and satires of society.

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No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theatre of war.

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Next one shoots off his big bazoo while the TV’s on is gonna find hisself cut off without a dollar.

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Deep and personal snippets of Irish life.

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I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

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Gothic horrors of fatal punishments and consequences.

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I don’t know what the first two were, but the third was for death.

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For God’s sake—take me away from it—take me back to Earth...

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The coffin became the new status symbol.

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Heroic adventures through sorcerers and monsters.

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Stung to frenzy, Conan caught up a jewel chest and hurled it with all his strength. It was a move the monster was not expecting.

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Original fairy tales of a sentimental nature.

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There are two squads of us—the lions and the lambs. If you’re a lamb, you’ll come to lie upon these tables like Gray or Jane Galbraith.

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Scientific thought experiments turned into full adventures.

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It is strange to be alone, and so cold. To be the last man on earth....

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A 17 year old Wertenbaker’s letter to Weird Tales magazine.

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A letter to Amazing Stories, thanking a fellow author.

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It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig,” the man said. “It’s not really an operation at all.

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Now run along, and don’t get into mischief.

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Absurd examinations of human relations and status.

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To-day is a day of splendid triumph. Spain has a king; he has been found, and I am he.

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Explorative and imaginative science fiction.

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Would I have to tie my own shoes instead of letting the machine do it? And brush my own teeth and comb my hair and give myself a bath?

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The correspondent wondered ingenuously how in the name of all that was sane could there be people who thought it amusing to row a boat.

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Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your hair to me.

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Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm

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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Finger Painting animation by famous artist Alexander Petrov

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Do not all things love?—the winds as they whisper to the rushing waters? the waters as they kiss the flowery banks, and speed to mingle with the sea? 

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Corrupted delvings into evil and horror.

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It is, perhaps, harder to be a great sinner than a great saint.

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It seems that only God can know the truth; it is to Him alone we must appeal, and from Him alone expect mercy.

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For to hesitate means to admit fear. That is fatal.

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Classic gothic stories of ghosts and haunted houses.

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If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you; But make allowance for their doubting too...

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Deeply philosophical poetry and cute childrens fables.

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The rascal now had her hand, as well as her heart. I shudder to think what he’s done with them, by this time.

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Wistful poetry on disappointment with life.

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Nor do you see my staring eyes of nights.

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The birds did not move. They went on watching him.

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Detective mysteries with an occult twist.

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The tale of the haunting was considered as little more than an old myth, except after nightfall.

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Living is hard enough without complicating the process by thinking about it.

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Some day it will grace the Louvre. And all because our white rabbit had sacrificed its heart’s blood.

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Inventive and introspectice tales on human nature.

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Think of the millions and millions of people in the world, labourers and all, who get along with only two maids.

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Murders and scandal among the aristocracy.

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You have lost your gold pencil-case? You must go to the little Belgian. He is too marvellous!

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Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany

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Dream-like fantasies of heroes, gods and angels.

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Yet still the dreams came flitting through the trees as soon as the dark had fallen, and led men’s minds by night into terrible places.

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The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth

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Classic childrens aventures in lands of giants and fairies.

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The rainbow of Fairyland is not dependent upon the sun as ours is.

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I ’ate all animals, monsieur. Cats especially.

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Will the youth have the sense not to let himself be caught in her toils?

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That the Nereids have left the waters and the Oreads the mountains, that the woods no longer give shelter to Pan.

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How mightily he loved her—he, Paul King, who had made a mock of so many women and had never loved before!

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Tales of nosy neighbours and mean streets.

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In a street like this mere independence of pattern gives distinction.

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But I felt that in the labyrinth of sounds now issuing from that instrument there was something being hunted.