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The General Himself Death House

The House built on the Gates of Hell

Horror
English
1984 Words
Ages 18 and up
36
3

the opening to the Gates of Hell.

Keywords: hounted, horror, thriller

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Charles Dickens Bleak House (Annotated)

Illustrated

Fiction
English
353830 Words
Ages 6 and up
348
0

Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens. Includes all 40 illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz). Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by a mostly omniscient narrator. Memorable characters include the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, the friendly but depressive John Jarndyce, and the childish and disingenuous Harold Skimpole, as well as the likeable but imprudent Richard Carstone. At the novel's core is long-running litigation in England's Court of Chancery, Jarndyce v Jarndyce, which has far-reaching consequences for all involved. This case revolves around a testator who apparently made several wills. The litigation, which already has taken many years and consumed between £60,000 and £70,000 in court costs, is emblematic of the failure of Chancery. [more]

Keywords: Bleak House, Illustrated, Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Phiz, Novel, Social Criticism, Litigation, Court of Chancery, Jarndyce v Jarndyce, Testator, Judicial, Chancery Law Proces, Esther Summerson, British Society, 19th century, Jarndyce, Chancery Law Process, Esther, Summerson, Equity Court [more][Less]

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BR Sunkara Haunted House

Houses could be haunted

Thriller
English
2160 Words
Ages 14 and up
301
0

I went near the bed. I felt the feeling of someone breathing near my neck. No doubt, the [more]

Keywords: Haunted House Ghosts Rain Sounds

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Jakob Imhoff Blackford House

Mystery & Crime
German
6721 Words
No Age Recommendation
280
2

Milli lebt mit ihrem Vater in einem alten Herrenhaus, versteckt im Süden Englands, tief im Dartmoor. Durch die extremen Wetterbedingungen sind die Beiden den ganzen Winter über von der Außenwelt abgeschnitten. Anfangs verläuft alles wie gewohnt, doch dann überschlagen sich die seltsamen Ereignisse. Auf dem Stammbaum der Familie erscheinen plötzlich Sterbedaten von noch lebenden Menschen und Milli beginnt um ihr Leben zu fürchten. [more]

Keywords: Krimi Abenteuer Blackford House Horror Fantasy Geister

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William Morris The House Of The Wolfings

A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse

Fantasy
English
84964 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature.[1] It was first published in hardcover by Reeves and Turner in 1889.[2] Its importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the sixteenth volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library in April, 1978. [more]

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H. P. Lovecraft Dreams in the Witch House

Horror
English
14906 Words
Ages 8 and up
368
2

"The Dreams in the Witch House" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction. Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, takes a room in the Witch House, a house in Arkham thought to be accursed. The first part of the story is an account of the history of the house, which has once harboured Keziah Mason, an accused witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. Gilman discovers that for the better part of two centuries many if not most of its occupants have died prematurely. The dimensions of Gilman's room in the house are unusual, and seem to conform to a kind of unearthly geometry that Gilman theorizes can enable travel from one plane or dimension to another. In his dreams Gilman is taken to a city of Lovecraft's "Elder Things", and even brings back tangible evidence that he's actually been there. Several times his dreaming self encounters a bizarre "congeries of iridescent, prolately spheroidal bubbles", as well as a trapezoidal figure, both of which seem sapient. It is hinted that these may be the extra-dimensional forms of Keziah and her familiar. [more]

Keywords: the dreams, in the witch house, lovecraft, gothic horror, supernatural thriller, ghost story, mystery and suspense

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