Seaton's Aunt
By: Walter de la Mare
3.49
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
A schoolboy is reluctantly drawn into the unhappy world of Arthur Seaton - a bullied outsider with …
Want to Read"And it always seems to me,' he went on ruminatingly, 'that, after all, we are nothing better than interlopers on the earth, disfiguring and staining wherever we go."-Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt
"And it always seems to me,' he went on ruminatingly, 'that, after all, we are nothing better than interlopers on the earth, disfiguring and staining wherever we go."-Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt
"And it always seems to me,' he went on ruminatingly, 'that, after all, we are nothing better than interlopers on the earth, disfiguring and staining wherever we go."-Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt
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"Mr. Hooper spent a long life, irreproachable in outward act, yet shrouded in dismal suspicions; kind and loving, though unloved, and dimly feared; a man apart from men, shunned in their health and jo…"-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister's Black Veil
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"His own true hidden reality that he had desired to know grew palpable, recognizable. It seemed to him just this: a great, glad, abounding hope that he had saved his brother; too expansive to be conta…"-Clemence Housman, The Were-Wolf
3. The Color Out of Space
By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.00
Format: None pages, ebook
Set in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts, an unnamed narrator investigates a local area k… read more
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4. The Black Stone
By: Robert E. Howard
4.17
Format: None pages,
A marvelous rendition of the short story the Black Stone by Conan author Robert E. Howard. You can … read more
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By: Ambrose Bierce
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By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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3.90
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3.59
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18. Seaton's Aunt
By: Walter de la Mare
3.49
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
A schoolboy is reluctantly drawn into the unhappy world of Arthur Seaton - a bullied outsider with … read more
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3.77
Format: None pages, None
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3.15
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