A Ghost Story
By
Mark Twain
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 [...]
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
By
Washington Irving
Found among the papers of the late Diedrech Knickerbocker.
A pleasing land of drowsy head it was,
Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye;
And of gay castles in the clouds that pass,
Forever flushing round a summer sky.
Castle of [...]
THE RAVEN.
By Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“‘T is some [...]
Cynthia (cina) Pelayo
EL DIABLITO (THE LITTLE DEVIL)
Excerpt from LOTERIA
“I can hear them scratching,” the chubby faced little boy says as he searches through a large box of Crayola Crayons.
The doctor sat directly across from him, his hands on the metal table. “What do you mean, Sebastian, that [...]