An Alpine Idyll
Ernest HemingwayAfter the thaw, a peasant brings his wife’s body down from the mountains—and the villagers reveal the grotesque ritual he performed while waiting.
9 min · Chilling
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In Our Time: Interchapters
Ernest HemingwayWar, revolution, bullfights, and executions flash past in hard-edged scenes where courage and brutality become nearly indistinguishable.
12 min · Chilling
The Killers
Ernest HemingwayTwo strangers take over a small-town lunchroom and wait for a former prizefighter who knows exactly why they have come.
13 min · Suspenseful
Transformation
Mary ShelleyExiled by his own pride, a reckless nobleman accepts a stranger's miraculous bargain.
32 min · Chilling
Asleep in Armageddon
Ray BradburyStranded on a seemingly hospitable planetoid, a spaceman discovers that the only danger comes when he tries to sleep.
20 min · Chilling
The Piper
Ray BradburyOn a colonized, dying Mars, an exiled musician plays a tune that may summon a violent reckoning for Earth’s occupiers.
7 min · Foreboding
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