The story shelf
Follow your curiosity.
A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
Recurring elements in the story’s premise.
4 stories · Selected from the catalog
Charlotte Perkins GilmanPrescribed total rest in a nursery with barred windows, a young wife begins to study the wallpaper.
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H. P. LovecraftA horror writer enters an abandoned church, studies a strange crystal, and begins to feel watched by something that cannot survive light.
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H. P. LovecraftA solitary young man becomes convinced that an abandoned family tomb contains the life and identity meant for him.
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Walter M. Miller Jr.A condemned ritual thief on a dying Mars raids a forbidden vault, hoping that fragments of ancient science can save his people.
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