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→http://www.online-literature.com/hh-munro/← 1870 – 1916 ¤ The Open Window ⇐ The Open Window is a short story about Frampton Nuttel. Mr. Nuttel heads out to the countryside to calm his nervous condition, he takes along with him a handful of introduction letters his sister had given him. Mr. Nuttel visits the home of Mrs. […] 
1890 – 1937 ¤ The Call of Cthulhu. ◊ Call of Cthulhu _ HP Lovecraft ⇓ Audio Book
Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival… a survival of a hugely remote period when… consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide […] 
[1809 – 1849]→bio ♥ The Tell-tale Heart A wonderful animated short film of 1953 based on Edgar Allan Poe short-story. The story told by a mad man has a dark visual with a perfect work of narration by James Mason. It is a UPA Production and was the first cartoon to […] 
Canadian writer Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, South West Ontario and has written short fiction since 1950. Her books consist of collections of short stories, and one book which has been published as a novel, although it is actually a set of inter-linked stories which falls between the two […] 
Born in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1939, she is Canada’s most eminent novelist and poet, and also writes short stories, critical studies, screenplays, radio scripts and books for children, her works having been translated into over 30 languages. Her reviews and critical articles have appeared in various eminent magazines and she […] 
[1938 – 1988] ¤ Cathedral ←[read] ⇓ Listen • Plot Overview The narrator says that his wife’s blind friend, whose wife has just died, is going to spend the night at their house. He is not happy about this visitor and the man’s blindness unsettles him. He explains that his […] 
1921 – 1995 ←The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith, is the first of five books featuring the con man Tom Ripley. As the story begins, Tom is a twenty-three-year-old living in New York. He comes from a fairly disadvantaged background, but has aspirations to a better life. An accomplished liar and fraudster, […] 
1888 – 1959
In Raymond Chandler’s 1949 novel The Little Sister, Philip Marlowe takes on what seems like a fairly routine missing persons case. Orrin Quest was a young man from Manhattan, Kansas who arrived in LA and then disappeared from sight. His sister hires Marlowe to find him. The […] 
¤ ‘Brave New World’ ←Listen to Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) himself introducing a radio adaptation (in two parts) of his book in 1956, revisiting his predictions in 1931… «Brave New World» is a fantastic parable about the dehumanization of human beings. In the negative utopia described in my story, man has […] |
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