The Distant Journey

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The autumn of 1893 settled over the Thorne estate not with a gentle decay, but with a violent, fungal exhalation that smelled of wet chalk and rotting marrow. I, Elias Thorne, an archivist of modest reputation and rigid habits, sat by the bedside of my wife, Clara, as the final breaths left her, not in the slow decline of a fever, but in a sudden, jerking convulsion that seemed to tear the very...

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