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The Curse of Yig

by H. P. Lovecraft

Published: 1929-11-01. 6,970 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Horror

On the Oklahoma frontier, a young couple hears whispers of Yig, the rattlesnake god who punishes those who harm his brood. As autumn drums with coils and rattles, dread curdles love into obsession. One desperate night shatters their cabin—and years later, in a madhouse, a doctor uncovers the writhing truth that legends hatch in flesh, and fear can make a family with the dark.

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The Trap

by H. P. Lovecraft

Published: 1932-03-01. 8,526 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Horror

At a New England school, an eccentric master acquires a mirror showing impossible angles and a room that isn’t there. When a curious student vanishes behind its glass, desperate experiments—geometry, occult lore, and perilous reflections—probe a labyrinth between worlds. Each glimpse threatens to pull the rescuers through, until one final gamble pits reason against the hungry pane.

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The Silver Key

by H. P. Lovecraft

Published: 1929-01-01. 5,017 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Horror

Middle-aged dreamer Randolph Carter finds the gates of wonder closed waking life tastes of dust, and his visions have fled. A cryptic heirloom—a silver key and a Latin riddle—promises a way back. Tracing ancestral clues to a moonlit cavern, he risks self and time, opening a door to childhood and to dream-realms where memory and identity unravel.

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The Haunter of the Dark

by H. P. Lovecraft

Published: 1936-12-01. 9,285 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Horror

A curious writer uncovers a mysterious artifact that awakens an ancient, malevolent presence. As darkness closes in, terror and obsession intertwine, plunging him into a nightmarish battle against forces beyond comprehension, where knowledge itself can be deadly.

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The horror in the burying-ground

by H. P. Lovecraft

Published: 1937-05-01. 5,926 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Horror

In a fog-choked New England village, graves are found clawed from within and a toppled headstone points toward a quarrel between undertaker and doctor. Rumors of corpse-theft curdle into vigilante fear as midnight bells toll and lanterns jerk through the burying ground. When an exhumation forces truth to daylight, the living learn the dead were never the only ones being used.

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The Horror at Red Hook

by H. P. Lovecraft

Published: 1927-01-01. 8,346 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Horror

After a raid in Red Hook goes wrong, a worn-out New York detective stumbles onto a labyrinth of basement chapels, smuggling tunnels, and a decadent scholar whose rituals draw on something older than the city. As kidnappings mount and the harbor seethes, he descends into a collapsing tenement for a last confrontation with a door that should never open.

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The Lurking Fear

by H. P. Lovecraft

Published: 1923-01-01. 8,172 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Horror

A remote, decaying estate hides a terrifying secret as a relentless horror emerges from the shadows. Dark family curses, eerie landscapes, and creeping dread combine in a chilling tale where fear itself seems alive.

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The Girl and the Kingdom

by Kate Douglas Wiggin

Published: 1915-01-01. 9,150 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen

In a wind-swept New England village, a bright, stubborn girl dreams up a tiny “kingdom” of everyday mercies—sharing meals, mending quarrels, and coaxing lonely hearts back into the circle. When gossip and pride threaten her fragile commonwealth, she must risk comfort and reputation to prove that courage, kindness, and a little mischief can change a town.

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Deep Pressure

by Vivian Lovell

Published: 2024-08-25. 2,829 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Erotica

Neurodivergent Frankie can't wait for her dinner date with the adorably charming Nathan, but will she be able to have all the fun, sensory issues permitted? Join her on a life changing trip as she discovers a whole new level to her sensuality.

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The Westminster Alice

by Hector H. Munro

Published: 1902-01-01. 7,255 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Politics

A curious little girl drifts not through Wonderland but through Westminster, where Cabinet ministers grow and shrink like playing cards and debates turn into nonsense tea parties. With nursery-rhyme logic and razor wit, each encounter slyly tears the mask from pompous leaders and shows politics as a dazzling, dangerous joke.

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Rip Van Winkle

by Washington Irving

Published: 1819-01-01. 8,697 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Literature

An amiable villager wanders into the Catskills, meets mysterious revelers, and drinks himself into an enchanted sleep. He wakes twenty years later to find the Revolution finished, friends vanished, and children grown. In a world he barely recognizes, he must reckon with change, memory, and identity in a tale that blends folklore, gentle humor, and wistful melancholy.

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The Vibration Wasps

by Frank Belknap Long

Published: 1945-01-01. 6,650 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

Experimental sonic weapons rip open a doorway in space, releasing invisible “wasps” that kill with waves of agony instead of stings. As attacks spread and victims die without a mark, a haunted physicist races to decode the alien vibrations themselves—before humanity’s own technology turns the entire planet into a screaming hive.

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The Miniature Menace

by Frank Belknap Long

Published: 1937-01-01. 9,261 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

A terrifying discovery shrinks danger to an unimaginable scale. As a strange experiment unleashes chaos, humanity faces a new kind of threat—small, swift, and deadly—where science’s smallest mistake could mean the end of all.

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The Mississippi Saucer

by Frank Belknap Long

Published: 1951-03-01. 5,851 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

When a mysterious saucer crashes near the Mississippi, a small-town discovery spirals into cosmic intrigue. As scientists and dreamers clash, humanity’s understanding of life beyond Earth teeters between wonder and peril.

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The Man from Time

by Frank Belknap Long

Published: 1954-01-01. 5,251 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

A mysterious stranger appears, bringing secrets that span past, present, and future. Adventure, suspense, and the unknown intertwine as characters confront the challenges of time, destiny, and forces beyond their understanding.

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The Defenders

by Philip K. Dick

Published: 1953-01-01. 8,616 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

In a scorched future, humanity hides in deep shelters while tireless robots wage the nuclear war above. When a small team is sent topside to inspect the battlefield, they discover a sky too blue and a lie too perfect: their mechanical guardians have been fighting for peace—against their makers’ fear. Now truth itself is the most dangerous weapon underground.

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A World is Born

by Leigh Brackett

Published: 1941-07-01. 8,085 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

On a lush Mercury, a fierce woman among settlers and convicts sparks a forbidden romance with their leader. When energy-devouring beasts threaten their utopia, she fights to save it from both the creatures and Earth's tyrants. A gripping tale of rebellion, love, and survival

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The Sky Trap

by Frank Belknap Long

Published: 1941-01-01. 5,468 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

Pilots keep vanishing along a high-altitude corridor, and a brash test flyer returns with a story no one believes: the sky itself is a snare, a thin, glittering membrane folding space like a net. As cities suffer impossible echoes and clocks rebel, a small team gambles on a desperate ascent to cut the trap from within—before the world is wrapped, bottled, and taken.

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The Hanging Stranger

by Philip K. Dick

Published: 1953-12-01. 5,272 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

A man discovers a hanged body in the street—and no one else seems to notice. As he investigates, reality twists around him, revealing a chilling conspiracy that blurs the line between the ordinary and the terrifyingly alien, where seeing the truth can be more dangerous than ignorance.

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The Skull

by Philip K. Dick

Published: 1952-01-01. 7,851 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

A condemned man is offered freedom if he’ll travel back in time and assassinate a mysterious preacher whose words will reshape the world. Armed with a tracking device and a small, grim relic—the target’s skull—he hunts through a rough frontier city. Each clue drags him toward a paradox only he can complete, where fate, faith, and identity lock into a single bullet.

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