Long, long ago, when this old world was in its tender infancy, there was a child named Epimetheus ... Read more
Dark Romanticism Short Stories
Total Stories: 90
A new fragment by the great American novelist When Hawthorne was American consul at Liverpool, he was often ... Read more
Yes, indeed: the gem is as bright as a star, and curiously set, said Clara Pembertou, examining an ... Read more
Now talk we of graves and goblins! Fit themes,start not! gentle reader,fit for a ghost like me. Yes; ... Read more
Born 1642. Died 1727. On Christmas-day, in the year 1642, Isaac Newton was born, at the small village ... Read more
INTRODUCTION TO THE GOLDEN TOUCH AT noon, our juvenile party assembled in a dell, through the depths of ... Read more
INTRODUCTION TO “THE GORGON’S HEAD” Beneath the porch of the country-seat called Tanglewood, one fine autumnal morning, was ... Read more
It was now the 3rd of March, 1770. The sunset music of the British regiments was heard, as ... Read more
Born 1599. Died 1658. Not long after King James the First took the place of Queen Elizabeth on ... Read more
One afternoon of a cold winter’s day, when the sun shone forth with chilly brightness, after a long ... Read more
INTRODUCTION TO THE THREE GOLDEN APPLES THE snow-storm lasted another day; but what became of it afterwards, I ... Read more
INTRODUCTION TO THE CHIMAERA UPWARD, along the steep and wooded hill-side, went Eustace Bright and his companions. The ... Read more
