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(1-7 October 2018)
A young woman is hired to be governess to two orphans at an isolated English country house. After she sees ghosts, she is determined to protect her charges. Can she save them, or has she gone mad?
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James #FreeScaryStorieshttps://t.co/txE44NQAmr pic.twitter.com/mrTFduVngT— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) October 1, 2018
After the birth of their child, a couple rents an old house in the country, where the wife becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper in the bedroom. Who, or what, is hiding behind it?
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman#FreeScaryStorieshttps://t.co/I69f7vAmYO pic.twitter.com/0JOWWIYOuf— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) October 2, 2018
One evening during Carnivale, Montresor decides he must take an awful revenge against his colleague Fortunato for the thousand injuries borne him. But can Montresor carry out his heinous plan?
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe#FreeScaryStorieshttps://t.co/P0ARPIHQQF pic.twitter.com/9ElWeRk8X9— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) October 3, 2018
Two young men & a girl walk into an antique store to buy themselves a gift before the girl’s marriage. Despite the cost & the owner’s warning about a curse, they purchase The Monkey Spoons.
by Mary Elizabeth Counselman#FreeScaryStories @wikisource_en https://t.co/lH1Y17jGaK pic.twitter.com/YsBGqAsUWa— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) October 4, 2018
Giovanni loves Beatrice; she wants to marry him: what dread secret keeps her a prisoner in her father’s strange garden?
Rappaccini’s Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne#FreeScaryStories @UniofAdelaide
(Painting: Soul of the Rose by John William Waterhouse)https://t.co/Yo0DrgR8dD pic.twitter.com/7JZIuA6u0F— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) October 5, 2018
Late at night in a deserted wood, schoolmaster Ichabod Crane unexpectedly confronts the Headless Horseman. Someone is playing a joke on him, right?#FreeScaryStories @everywriter https://t.co/HvanomqrkU
Painting: Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane, by John Quidor, 1858 pic.twitter.com/PpLJmZNAwf— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) October 6, 2018
Peyton Farquhar is about to be hanged after soldiers discover him tampering with a bridge; as the rope drops, he falls into the river below: can Farquhar escape his fate?
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce#FreeScaryStories @everywriterhttps://t.co/XxR0OL7Vjm pic.twitter.com/AaI3TFiMaT— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) October 7, 2018
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