On the road leading north from Manchester, in eastern Kentucky, to Booneville, twenty miles away, stood, in 1862, a wooden plantation house of a somewhat better quality than most of the dwellings in that region. The house was destroyed by ... Read more of The Spook House at Scary Stories.ca

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Rogers And Junius

Samuel Rogers was requested by Lady Holland to ask Sir Philip Francis
whether he was the author of Junius' Letters. The poet, meeting
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