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The system of espionage in the asylum was so effective and complete that in practice the patients could often enjoy a sense of almost complete solitude.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
‘Story as such’, said E. M. Forster, ‘can only have one merit: that of making the audience want to know what happens next.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
The Terrifying Tales by Edgar Allan Poe: Tell Tale Heart; The Cask of the Amontillado; The Masque of the Red Death; The Fall of the House of Usher; The ... Purloined Letter; The Pit and the Pendulum
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But he sat in an agony of fear lest Raffles should be overheard in his loud and plain references to past facts – lest Mrs Bulstrode should be even tempted to listen at the door. How could he hinder her, how betray his terror by opening the door to detect her? She was a woman of honest direct habits, and little likely to take so low a course in orde
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