18 books like Dr. Heidegger's Experiment and Other Stories
The Left Hand of Darkness
[Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website][1]:
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (1969)
One of my favorite novels is The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K Le Guin. For more than 40 years I've been recommending this book to people who want to try science fiction for the first time, and it still serves very well for that. One of the things I like about it is how…
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Nightfall
Elena Gilbert is alive — again.When Elena sacrificed herself to save the two vampire brothers who love her — the handsome, brooding Stefan and the sleek and dangerous Damon — she was consigned to a fate beyond death. Until a powerful supernatural force pulled her back.Now Elena is not just human. She has powers and gifts that were bestowed on her in the afterlife. What's more, her blood pulses…
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Prom Nights from Hell
In this exciting collection, bestselling authors Meg Cabot (How to Be Popular), Kim Harrison (A Fistful of Charms), Michele Jaffe (Bad Kitty), Stephenie Meyer (Twilight), and Lauren Myracle (ttyl) take bad prom nights to a whole new level—a paranormally bad level. Wardrobe malfunctions and two left feet don't hold a candle to discovering your date is the Grim Reaper—and he isn't here to tell you…
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Sinner
Cole St. Clair and Isabel Culpeper share a past that, to neither of them, never seemed to have a future--but now that Isabel has left Cole for Los Angeles, Cole realizes that he cannot live without her. However, when they get back together, the old fears and dark power in each of them threaten to tear them apart forever.
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The Goat-Foot God
Desperate and wretched after the death of his wife at the hands of her lover, Hugh Paston becomes engrossed in the occult and goes on a quest for Pan, aided by an old bookseller called Jelkes. In order to fulfil his desire he buys an old monastery to convert into a temple for Pan. The monastery is haunted however by the spirit of a fifteenth century prior who was walled up for his pagan beliefs…
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The American Short Story [59 stories]
Rip Van Winkle ; The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving --
Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Fall of the House of Usher ; The murders in the Rue Morgue ; The purloined letter / Edgar Allen Poe --
Benito Cereno / Herman Melville --
The man without a country / Edward Everett Hale --
The lady, or the tiger / Frank R. Stockton --
The celebrated jumping from of Calaveras County ;…
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Representative Selections, With Introduction, Bibliography, And Notes
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-…
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Melusine
A teenaged boy becomes embroiled in the mysterious life of a farm girl while on vacation in the south of France.
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Fade
IT IS THE summer of 1938 when young Paul Moreaux discovers he can "fade." First bewildered, then thrilled with the power of invisibility, Paul experiments. But his "gift" soon shows him shocking secrets and drives him toward a chilling act."Imagine what might happen if Holden Caufield stepped into H. G. Wells' The Invisible Man, and you'll have an idea how good Fade is. . . . I was absolutely…
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Clay
Fourteen-year-old Davie and his best friend, Geordie, are altar boys at their local Catholic Church. They're full of mischief, but that all changes when Stephen Rose comes to town. Father O'Mahoney thinks it would be a good idea for Davie and Geordie to befriend him--maybe some of their good nature will rub off on this unhappy soul. But it's Stephen who sees something special in Davie.Stephen's a…
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Necropolis (The Power of Five / The Gatekeepers #4)
To stop the evil corporation Nightrise from unleashing its devastating power around the globe, fifteen-year-old Matt and three other Gatekeepers travel to Hong Kong to find Scarlet, the final Gatekeeper, whose fate is inextricably joined to their own.
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Nightshade (Nightshade Series, Book 1)
Calla Tor has always known her destiny: After graduating from the Mountain School, she'll be the mate of sexy alpha wolf Ren Laroche and fight with him, side by side, ruling their pack and guarding sacred sites for the Keepers. But when she violates her masters' laws by saving a beautiful human boy out for a hike, Calla begins to question her fate, her existence, and the very essence of the world…
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Ironside
When pixie Kaye declares herself to Roiben on the day of his coronation, he is forced to send her on a seemingly impossible quest. Now Kaye is forbidden to see or speak to him unless she can find the one thing she knows doesn't exist: a faerie who can tell a lie.
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The Pit and the Pendulum
"The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts. The narrator of the story describes his experience of being tortured. The story is especially…
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Full Moon Kisses
This enticing paranormal romance featuring werewolves and the popular girl who loves them is a great conclusion to the Full Moon series.What will Celeste do now that both her heroic boyfriend, Brandon, and her popular ex-boyfriend, Nash, are werewolves? And someone wants to turn her into a werewolf, too. Life is complicated under Legend Run's full moon.Perfect for fans of Ellen Schreiber's New…
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The Reappearance of Rachel Price
18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness. Rachel is gone, presumed dead.
The case is dragged up from the past when the Price family agree to a true crime documentary. Bel can’t wait for filming to end, for life to go back to normal. But then Rachel Price reappears, and…
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The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
The legend od Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe
Bartleby / Herman Melville
The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain
The outcasts of Poker Flat / Francis Bret Harte
One of the missing / Ambrose Bierce
The real thing / Henry James
The unfinished story / O. Henry
The bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen…
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The Time of the Ghost
From Publishers Weekly
Published in Great Britain in 1981 and available here for the first time, this gripping novel serves up often giddily hilarious fantasy that nonetheless deals unflinchingly with some ugly issues. At least twice in the course of the multi-layered narrative, the heroine has not the faintest idea who she is?a powerful metaphor for the novel's underlying theme of alienation…
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