I'm looking for a story in which the last natural things on earth are behind doors or have been bought and there are just a few things left. What there is plenty are insects. I would like to find out the name of that story.

The Vermicious Knids are a type of dangerous alien creature in the works of Roald Dahl. They appear as primary antagonists in Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator and get passing mentions in other Dahl stories such as James and the Giant Peach. They are made of muscle and able to stretch their bo...

everyone! Super new here, I can't believe it took me this long to find this site! So, I'm reading Virginia Woolf's short story Phyllis and Rosamond and, well, here's the opening passage: In this very curious age, when we are beginning to require pictures of people, their minds and their coats, a...

The story starts with an old man and his cook/caretaker lady in his home. I seem to remember that is was not a rich house, but well to do. It is supper time and it is raining heavily outside. I think this was set in England. A highwayman man bangs and enters at some point. There is a wounded pers...