story-to-pack: add the corpora and the catalogue v2/v3

Fourteen corpora split and classified: aesop, bierce, chekhov, holmes,
keefe, lawson, lorimer, maupassant, nobody, plaintales, poe, torchy,
wallingford and winesburg, each with its splitter and the hand-written
groups and pages; catalogue v2 and v3; and the shared splitters
gutenberg_chunks.py, se_split.py and se_build.py.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019rwKTmug58sEsJ72AuWsEi
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{
"chunk": 337,
"story": 19,
"summary": "The narrator insists he is nervous but not mad, his senses only sharpened; with no motive, loving the old man he lives with, he resolved to kill him to be rid of his pale, filmed vulture eye.",
"predicament": "A man seized by an irrational fixation on one feature of someone he loves resolves to destroy them to be rid of it."
},
{
"chunk": 338,
"story": 19,
"summary": "He boasts of his caution: kinder than ever by day, every midnight for a week he slowly puts his head and a shaded lantern into the old man's room, but the eye is always closed.",
"predicament": "A man plotting a senseless killing is extra kind by day and creeps to his victim's bedside each night, sure no one suspects."
},
{
"chunk": 339,
"story": 19,
"summary": "On the eighth night, gloating at his own cleverness, he chuckles; the old man starts up crying \"Who's there?\" and sits listening in the dark for an hour while the narrator stands motionless.",
"predicament": "A stalker's victim wakes and sits listening in the dark, and the stalker must hold perfectly still for an hour."
},
{
"chunk": 340,
"story": 19,
"summary": "He hears the old man's groan of mortal terror, a sound he knows from his own nights, pities him while chuckling inside, and at last lets a thin ray fall on the eye.",
"predicament": "A man stands over his terrified victim, recognises the fear as his own, and pities him, yet goes on."
},
{
"chunk": 341,
"story": 19,
"summary": "The eye is wide open, and he hears a low, quick sound like a muffled watch: the old man's heart, which drives him to fury.",
"predicament": "A man on the brink of violence hears a sound he takes to be his victim's heart, and it drives him into fury."
},
{
"chunk": 342,
"story": 19,
"summary": "He holds the light steady as the heartbeat grows louder; fearing a neighbour will hear, he leaps in with a yell, drags the old man down and smothers him under the bed until the heart stops.",
"predicament": "A man driven to frenzy by a sound he cannot bear finally kills, afraid only that the neighbours will hear."
},
{
"chunk": 343,
"story": 19,
"summary": "He dismembers the body, hides it under the floorboards with no trace of blood, and at four in the morning opens the door calmly to three police officers sent because a neighbour heard a shriek.",
"predicament": "A murderer who has hidden every trace opens the door calmly to the officers who have come to investigate."
},
{
"chunk": 344,
"story": 19,
"summary": "He welcomes them, blames the shriek on a dream, shows them round, and in triumphant audacity sets his chair over the corpse; then a ringing begins in his ears that is not in his ears.",
"predicament": "A murderer who has satisfied the searchers boldly sits right over the hidden body, and begins to hear something."
},
{
"chunk": 345,
"story": 19,
"summary": "The beating grows louder; he talks, argues, raves and scrapes his chair, but the officers chat and smile; convinced they hear and are mocking him, he shrieks a confession and tells them to tear up the planks.",
"predicament": "A murderer who has fooled the searchers cannot bear a sound only he hears, and screams out his own confession."
}
]