Sooooo, for my first Lit-Stock feature I chose an English Epic. I seems just fair that I should choose and American short story for my second edition.
So here it is
The Oval Portait by Edgar Allan Poe.
The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur which have so long frowned among the Appennines, not less in fact than in the fancy of Mrs. Radcliffe.
Its walls were hung with tapestry and bedecked with manifold and multiform armorial trophies, together with an unusually great number of very spirited modern paintings in frames of rich golden arabesque.
The portrait, I have already said, was that of a young girl. It was a mere head and shoulders, done in what is technically termed a vignette manner; much in the style of the favorite heads of Sully.
And when many weeks had passed, and but little remained to do, save one brush upon the
mouth and one tint upon the eye, the spirit of the lady again flickered up as the flame within the socket of the lamp.
[
] while he yet gazed, he grew tremulous and very pallid, and aghast, and crying with a loud voice, 'This is indeed Life itself!' turned suddenly to regard his beloved: -- She was dead!"
Full e-text of the oval portait here
Ok, sorry for the last 2, I know there are nto very Poe-ian but then
you cant stay dead for long, can you ? 
Lit-Stock volume 1 here
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