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Horror

Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House

Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House — verified public-domain source text from The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories.

Algernon Blackwood English
Horror

Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp

Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp — verified public-domain source text from The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories.

Algernon Blackwood English
Fantasy

Revelação de um caracter

Revelação de um caracter — verified public-domain source text from Contos Phantasticos.

Teófilo Braga Portuguese
Fantasy

Oshidori

Oshidori — verified public-domain source text from Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.

Lafcadio Hearn English
Fantasy

Of a Mirror and a Bell

Of a Mirror and a Bell — verified public-domain source text from Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.

Lafcadio Hearn English
Fantasy

O véo

O véo — verified public-domain source text from Contos Phantasticos.

Teófilo Braga Portuguese
Fantasy

O sonho de Esmeralda

O sonho de Esmeralda — verified public-domain source text from Contos Phantasticos.

Teófilo Braga Portuguese
Fantasy

O relogio de Strasburgo

O relogio de Strasburgo — verified public-domain source text from Contos Phantasticos.

Teófilo Braga Portuguese
Horror

O Evangelho da desgraça

O Evangelho da desgraça — verified public-domain source text from Contos Phantasticos.

Teófilo Braga Portuguese
Fantasy

Nemtudomka

Nemtudomka — verified public-domain source text from Magyar népmesék.

János Erdélyi Hungarian
Horror

Mujina

Mujina — verified public-domain source text from Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.

Lafcadio Hearn English
Horror

Maese Pérez el organista

Maese Pérez el organista — verified public-domain source text from Obras escogidas — Leyendas.

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Spanish
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