Let's read some horror poetry.
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To read along:
A Child's Nightmare by Robert Graves: https://www.bartleby.com/120/35.html
The Shadow on the Stone by Thomas Hardy: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem...
Because I Could Not Stop for Death (479) by Emily Dickinson: https://poets.org/poem/because-i-coul...
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