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Roads: A Legend of Santa Claus by Seabury Quinn

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the learned holy men knew more of sacred things than this wild woman of the camps who wore her hair at shoulder length and fared forth dight in hose and doublet like a man

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“I rose, paid my bill and went out, leaving him, I have no doubt, with the impression that I was a particularly hidebound idiot. But I had my own reasons for making no further contribution to his data. I would see this thing through without any assistance from a too enterprising press.”
― Harper Williams, The Thing in the Woods

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“One of my senses was saluted, nay, more than that, hailed, with imperiousness, and that was, strangely enough, my sense of smell, but in a hitherto unknown fashion.”
― Henry Bartholomew, Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird

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“She assigned task forces to look into solutions of each aspect of their project: law, science, social planning, design, buying, logistics, construction.”
― John Varley, The Persistence of Vision

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“The man was dead, but the curious part, which had evidently struck my acquaintance also, was that there were no injuries found on the body except a single diagonal scratch across the face, which was of sufficient depth to have destroyed one eye and to lay the entire cheek open.”
― Harper Williams, The Thing in the Woods

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“it is hard for the human mind to grasp anything but a human explanation of phenomena.”
― Henry Bartholomew, Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird

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Weird Fiction — 558 members — last activity Jan 08, 2026 02:20PM
This group is the place for lovers of the genre known as Weird Fiction to meet and discuss favorite works from the past as well as read together reall ...more

Science Fiction: The Short Stuff — 53 members — last activity Jan 05, 2026 09:37PM
The Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA ) define categories of science fiction solely by length: Short stories are less than 7,500 words Novelet ...more

Werewolves — 45 members — last activity Jun 23, 2025 10:30AM
Consider the horror sub-genre of the werewolf. Werewolves are different from all other supernatural beings of myth or legend. They aren't generated in ...more

BiZarRo — 571 members — last activity Jan 04, 2026 10:49AM
Bizarro fiction is a contemporary literary genre, which often uses elements of absurdism, satire, and the grotesque, along with pop-surrealism and gen ...more

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The world is made up of two kinds of people: first, those who love classics, and second, those who have not yet read a classic. Be bold and join us as ...more

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