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The Black Cat

Posted by Lea Manet on Wednesday, October 16, 2013, In : Fun Articles 



The Black Cat

By Edgar Allen Poe, 1843

For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.
Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad
am I not --and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburden my soul. My
immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of
mere household events. In their consequences, th...


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A GHOST STORY by MARK TWAIN

Posted by Lea Manet on Thursday, September 19, 2013, In : Fun Articles 

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Halloween is around the corner, so what better way to get in the spirit than a good old fashion ghost story.


I TOOK a large room, far up Broadway, in a huge old building whose upper stories had been wholly unoccupied for years, until I came. The place had long been given up to dust and cobwebs, to solitude and silence. I seemed groping among the tombs and invading the privacy of the dead, that first night I climbed up to my quarters. For the first time in my...


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