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A young woman working as a servant for a cruel countess falls in love with the man across the street. It seems like a fairy tale, but are there more sinister motivations at play?
Adapted from " The Queen of Spades" by Alexander Pushkin

Sanger Rainsford, a big-game hunter, just wants to go home, but he finds himself on an island belonging to General Zaroff, a fellow hunter with twisted, unorthodox tastes.
Sanger refuses to go along with Zaroff, but what will last longer, Sanger's adherence to his principles...or his life?
Adapted by the Weisers from "The Most Dangerous Game"
Read the original: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/O._Henry_Memorial_Award_Prize_Stories_of_1924/The_Most_Dangerous_Game
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Humanity is isolated for their own safety in their homes, but they settle in to communicate through world-wide messaging and video calls, and face-to-face, person-to-person interaction becomes rarer and rarer, to the point that it's uncomfortable and awkward.
And no, the writer had no knowledge of the year 2020. E. M. Forster's prescient work of science fiction was first published in 1909.
After an ecological disaster, humanity is forced to flee underground, living alone in pods. But...it's not uncomfortable. In fact, it's the opposite. Humans have everything they could possibly need or want, thanks to the machine that oversees everything. But, when we give the power to watch over us to computers, who watches over the computers?
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The original: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops/Chapter_I
 
 
 
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Warning: spoilers
 
A character struggles with loneliness and depression and tries numerous times to have the machine painlessly euthanize her, but it refuses.

The story of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief, begins with him sending a letter to a baron with the exact date and time he will rob the man.
The baron immediately contacts the best detective in France.
...oh and Arsène Lupin is actually in prison so the armed guards, locked gates, and flooded tunnels seem like overkill.
But...this is Arsène Lupin, so, of course, the poor Baron doesn't even stand a chance.
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A Halloween episode with two stories from the master of Gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe.
Adapted by the Weisers from "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe

A professor checks in to a rundown hotel for a long vacation and becomes obsessed with another resident - a pale man who moves from room to room.
Adapted by the Weisers from "The Pale Man" by Julius Long
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