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The Reading Room

The Storyville Library

A standing collection on the art of the story told by mail: its history, its forms, and how to choose one.

Storyville is a publisher of mysteries, and a place to learn the traditions behind them. Begin anywhere; every entry opens onto the next.

Literary Traditions

The forms and lineages behind a story told by post.

IWhat Is a Mystery Letter Subscription?The form defined: a serialized mystery delivered as real correspondence.IIFiction by MailStories delivered through real letters that unfold over time.IIIWhat Is Epistolary Fiction?Whole stories told through letters, diaries, and recovered documents.IVHow Serialized Fiction WorksWhy a story released in installments lingers longer than one read at once.

Buying Guides

For the reader choosing a correspondence, or giving one.

IBest Mystery Letter Subscriptions for AdultsHow to judge a correspondence worth a year of your attention.IIBest Gifts for Mystery LoversPresents that unfold across weeks, not minutes.IIIBest Letter Subscriptions for AdultsThe wider field of letters by post, mystery and otherwise.

Comparisons

Storyville set beside the alternatives, plainly.

IStoryville Letters vs. EpistolaryTwo mysteries by mail, set side by side.IIStoryville Letters vs. The Flower LettersMystery by post beside correspondence of a gentler kind.IIIMystery Subscription Box vs. Mystery Letter SubscriptionPuzzles in a box, or a story in the post. The difference.
When You Are Ready To Read One

The traditions are pleasant. The mysteries are better.

Every page here is, in the end, an invitation to a story still being written, twice a month, by post.

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