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The Fantasy Hall of Fame [22 stories] Robert Silverberg · 1983 · 431p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares: Masquerade Balls, Hematidrosis, Daggers, Abbeys Shares: Masquerade Balls, Hematidrosis, Daggers, Abbeys

The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume IV - Tales Edgar Allan Poe · 1902 · 335p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Business Man Colloquy of Monos and Una Conversation of Eiros and Charmion Descent into the Maelstrom Eleonora Island of the Fay Journal of Julius Rodman Man of the Crowd Masque of the Red Death Murders in the Rug Morgue Mystification Never Bet the Devil Your Head Oval Portrait Three Sundays in a Week Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling Shares: Masquerade Balls, Hematidrosis, Daggers, Abbeys

The Best Ghost Stories Ever Christopher Krovatin · 2003 · ★ 4.0 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The empty house / by Algernon Blackwell The monkey's paw / by W.W. Jacobs The legend of Sleepy Hollow / by Washington Irving Masque of the Red Death / by Edgar Allan Poe The judge's house / by Bram Stoker A ghost story / by Jerome K. Jerome The yellow wallpaper / by Charlotte Perkins Gilman The romance of certain old clothes / by Henry James The story of Clifford House / by Anonymous. Shares: Hematidrosis, Daggers, Abbeys, Juvenile audience

Fireside Al's Treasury of Classic Stories Alan Maitland · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon -- A tradition of eighteen hundred and four / Thomas Hardy -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Michael / William Wordsworth -- To build a fire / Jack London -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- The signalman / Charles Dickens -- Come again in the spring / Richard Kennedy -- In my… Shares: Hematidrosis, Daggers, Abbeys, Juvenile audience

Tales of Mystery and Imagination [12 stories] Edgar Allan Poe · 1965 · 337p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares: Daggers, Abbeys, American Horror tales, Horror stories Shares: Daggers, Abbeys, American Horror tales, Horror stories

A Shocking Accident Sara Corrin · 2003 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A shocking accident / Graham Greene -- The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- The fiery wooing of Mordred / P.G. Wodehouse -- How un-American can you get? / Art Buchwald -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- To build a fire / Jack London -- At the airport / Marina Mizzau -- Children of the vaults / Vladimir Korolenko -- The night the bed fell / James Thurber -- Roosya / Ivan Bunin… Shares: Juvenile audience, Gothic fiction, American Horror tales, Short Stories

Thrillers and More Thrillers Robert Arthur · 1968 · ★ 4.0 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Mr. George, by A. Derleth. -- The calamander chest, by J. P. Brennan. -- The poison necklace, by M. A. DeFord. -- The bottle imp, by R. L. Stevenson. -- My displaced ghosts, by J. West. -- Faith, hope, and charity, by I. S. Cobb. -- Mrs. Manifold, by S. Grendon. -- The hands of Mr. Ottermole, by T. Burke. -- Tell-tale Heart, by E. A. Poe. Shares: Juvenile audience, Gothic fiction, American Horror tales, Short Stories

Werewolves Martin H. Greenberg · 1988 · ★ 4.0 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A collection of fifteen stories by a variety of authors about the, sometime frightening, sometime humorous, phenomena of werewolves. Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, Horror, Children's fiction

Representative Selections, With Introduction, Bibliography, And Notes Edgar Allan Poe · 1935 · 563p · ≈ 18h · Challenging 10 stories: Berenice Cask of Amontillado Eleonora Fall of the House of Usher Gold-Bug Landor's Cottage Ligeia Ms Found in a Bottle Murders of the Rue Morgue Pit and the Pendulum 36 poems: Tamerlane Song-"I saw thee on thy bridal day" Dreams Evening star A dream within a dream The happiest day, the happiest hour The lake: to -- Sonnet- to science Al Aaraaf Romance Alone To Helen-… Shares: Short Story, American Horror tales, Horror stories, Short Stories

Selected Prose and Poetry Edgar Allan Poe · 1950 · 528p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Shares: Abbeys, American Horror tales, Horror stories, Short Stories Shares: Abbeys, American Horror tales, Horror stories, Short Stories

The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition Ann Charters · 2010 · 1163p · ≈ 38h · Moderate Collection contains: Stories: Civil peace / Chinua Achebe -- Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie -- Act of vengeance / Isabel Allende -- Hands / Sherwood Anderson -- Happy endings / Margaret Atwood -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- Black man and white woman in dark green boat / Russell Banks -- Snow / Ann Beattie -- From Fun Home: Old father,… Shares: Short Story, American Horror tales, Short Stories, Horror

Great Short Stories of the World -- a collection of complete short stories chosen from the literatures of all periods and countries Barrett Harper Clark · 1922 · 1076p · ≈ 35h · Challenging The two brothers (Anpu and Bata) / Anonymous -- Setna and the magic book / Anonymous -- Eumæus' : talk / Homer -- The country mouse and the town mouse / Æsop -- King Rhampsinitus and the thief / Herodotus -- Phineus and the harpies / Apollonius of Rhodes -- The robbers of Egypt / Heliodorus -- Horatius at the bridge / Livy -- Orpheus and the Eurydice / Ovid -- The shipwreck of Simonides / Phædrus… Shares: Gothic fiction, American Horror tales, Horror stories, Short Stories

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales [15 stories] Edgar Allan Poe · 1960 · ★ 3.9 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares: Gothic fiction, American Horror tales, Horror stories, Short Stories Shares: Gothic fiction, American Horror tales, Horror stories, Short Stories

Selected Stories and Poems [10 stories, 12 poems] Edgar Allan Poe · 1967 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares: Gothic fiction, American Horror tales, Horror stories, Short Stories Shares: Gothic fiction, American Horror tales, Horror stories, Short Stories

The best horror stories Robert Bloch · 1990 · 398p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Black Cat / Edgar Allan Poe -- Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Premature Burial / Edgar Allan Poe -- Torture of hope / Villiers de L'Isle Adam -- An episode of the terror / Honore de Balzac -- The hand / Guy de Maupassant -- The withered arm / Thomas Hardy -- The idiots / Joseph Conrad -- The bird / Thomas Burke -- Lot no. 249 / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The sentence / J. Kaden-Bandrowski… Shares: Gothic fiction, American Horror tales, Horror stories, Short Stories

Tales of Mystery and Imagination [13 stories] Edgar Allan Poe · 1909 · 374p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Shares: Gothic fiction, American Horror tales, Horror stories, Short Stories Shares: Gothic fiction, American Horror tales, Horror stories, Short Stories

Sterling Stories Yvonne Collioud Sisko · 2006 · ★ 3.8 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Salvation / Langston Hughes -- Ah Bah's money / Catherine Lim -- Cranes / Hwang Sunwon -- Bone girl / Joseph Bruchac -- The hockey sweater / Roch Carrier -- Strong temptations -- strategic movements -- the innocents beguiled / Mark Twain -- Marlene's adventures / Anita Endrezze -- Trail of the green blazer / R.K. Narayan -- Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin… Shares: Gothic fiction, American Horror tales, Horror stories, Short Stories

Poe stories and poems [17 stories, 9 poems] Edgar Allan Poe · 1986 · 161p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares: Gothic fiction, American Horror tales, Horror stories, Short Stories Shares: Gothic fiction, American Horror tales, Horror stories, Short Stories

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