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This story is Nikolai Gogol’s classic tragicomedy about two formerly inseparable Ukrainian neighbors who descend into an absurd, decades-long legal feud. It stands as a timeless literary masterpiece of the tragi-absurd, ridiculing the ridiculousness of human vanity and petty litigation. This story has all 7 chapters featured on this site, containing a total of words.- 1.8 K • May 31, '26
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A childhood without a father’s presence, marked by a violation that left lasting scars, and a youth spent navigating the cold realities of foster and group homes that offered little comfort. This tumultuous start propelled me into a life where boundaries blurred, leading to brushes with the law and periods of imprisonment. I walked unexpected paths, from the spotlight of performance to the quiet…- 7.4 K • Jun 24, '26
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A Story of Missionary Resilience. Biography of Leon Rosenberg, the late founder and director of the American European Bethel Mission. A compilation from archives and memory by Vera Kuschnir. Dedicated to the glory of God and to the numerous descendants of Leon and Fanny Rosenberg. Acknowledgments: Many thanks: — To Dr. and Mrs. Theodore Fischbacher for the many hours of tedious proofreading of the…- 1.2 K • Feb 27, '26
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The “Viy” is a monstrous creation of popular fancy. It is the name which the inhabitants of Little Russia give to the king of the gnomes, whose eyelashes reach to the ground. The following story is a specimen of such folk-lore. I have made no alterations, but reproduce it in the same simple form in which I heard it. — Author’s Note. This story…- 7.5 K • May 31, '26
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American author Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton achieved significant literary acclaim during her career, garnering comparisons to luminaries like Henry James and Ambrose Bierce. This collection of spine-tingling gothic tales will please fans of the genre who don’t want to sacrifice literary quality when it comes to scary stories. Included are the following stories: Death and the Woman, The Striding-Place, and The Sacrificial Altar. This…- 2.1 K • Feb 26, '26
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Nikolai Gogol’s “uncollected” works refer to a group of early drafts, fragmented sketches, and incomplete tales that were not organized by Gogol into his formal collections (Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, Mirgorod, or Arabesques). In most modern English compilations, these lesser-known, stray texts are grouped separately as uncollected works or juvenilia. This collection has stories featured on this site, containing a total of…- 9.0 K • Jun 2, '26
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- This is an unfinished historical novel, which is now considered to be Pushkin’s first prose work. The author began writing the novel towards the end of July, 1827 in Mikhailovskoe and in spring 1828 he is recorded to have read several drafts to his friends. During Pushkin’s lifetime, only two fragments of the work were published in the literary magazine Severnye Tsvety in 1829…
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The Curse of the Catafalques (1882) by F. Anstey is a humorous Victorian novelette about a fortune-hunting bachelor who must face a Christmas Eve, supernatural “haunted” curse to marry an heiress, Chlorine. It is a satirical, lighthearted horror story where the protagonist, after being pledged to the family, tries to avoid the terrifying consequences of the curse. A blending of supernatural horror and comedy,…- 2.7 K • Feb 28, '26
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Anakin is a cleric for the Draconic gods Bahamut and Tiamat who works Department of Adventuring. The DOA handles magical crimes and threats to the United States of America. It seems an ancient evil, one that hasn’t been seen nor heard from in over a century, has returned. Moloch, the Queen of the Undead, has returned to plague the world. Can Anakin and a…- 2.7 K • Mar 23, '26
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- is a humorous short story by Scottish writer William Edmondstoune Aytoun, first published anonymously in Blackwood’s Magazine around 1845, satirizing the speculative railway mania in Scotland during the 1840s by detailing the absurd and chaotic construction of a fictional railway line. It’s known for its vigorous fun, social commentary, and vivid depiction of the era’s industrial excitement and folly, often appearing in collections of…
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