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Dracula / Dreadful Transformation

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: mortality, decay, horror, fear, the supernatural  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-09

If I was shocked when I saw her yesterday, I was horrified when I saw her to-day. She was ghastly, chalkily pale; the red seemed to have gone even fro...
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The War of the Worlds / Nature and Decay

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: growth decay, urbanization, environmental fragility, contrast, nostalgia  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-03

The red creeper swarmed up the trees about the old palace, and their branches stretched gaunt and dead, and set with shrivelled leaves, from amid its ...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Decay and Observation

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg)  | Themes: decay, observation, secrecy, domesticity  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-30

These articles, with two small wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards ...
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The War of the Worlds / Natures Sublime Encounter

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: bravery, curiosity, decay, nature, confrontation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-26

The thought that had flashed into my mind grew real, grew credible. I felt no fear, only a wild, trembling exultation, as I ran up the hill towards th...
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Gulliver's Travels / Societal Degradation

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: desperation, escapism, moral decay, survival, societal critique  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-26

Hence it follows of necessity, that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Despair and Isolation

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: loneliness, decay, weakness, struggle, endurance  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-19

Again I made the old ruins resound with my cries, and finally so exhausted myself that I fainted. How long I lay in a kind of trance or sleep I cannot...