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Great American Short Stories Paul Negri · 2002 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Contents: Nathaniel Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown (1835) -- Edgar Allan Poe: The tell-tale heart (1843) -- Herman Melville: Bartleby (1856) -- Bret Harte: The luck of Roaring Camp (1870) -- Stephen Crane: The bride comes to Yellow Sky (1878) -- Mark Twain: The private history of a campaign that failed (1885) -- Sarah Orne Jewett: A white heron (1886) -- Charles Waddell Chesnutt: The goophered… Shares: Confederacy, Union, Hanging, United States Civil War

In the Midst of Life. Tales of Civilians Ambrose Bierce · 1891 · ★ 4.0 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Challenging A collection of 26 stories: Soldiers (15 stories) "A Horseman in the Sky" An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge "Chickamauga" "A Son of the Gods" "One of the Missing" "Killed at Resaca" "The Affair at Coulter's Notch" "The Coup de Grâce" "Parker Adderson, Philosopher" "An Affair of Outposts" "The Story of a Conscience" "One Kind of Officer" "One Officer, One Man" "George Thurston" "The… Shares: Confederacy, Union, Hanging, United States Civil War

The Damned Thing Ambrose Bierce · 2007 · ★ 4.4 · 24p · ≈ 48m · Moderate "The Damned Thing" is a horror short story written by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. It first appeared in Town Topics on December 7, 1893. Shares: Mountain Lions, Coroners, Inquests, Short Stories

The best ghost stories Daniel Defoe · 1919 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The Apparition of Mrs. Veal, Daniel Defoe Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book, Montague Rhodes James The Haunted and the Haunters, Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Silent Woman, Leopold Kompert The Man Who Went Too Far, E.F. Benson The Woman's Ghost Story, Algernon Blackwood The Phantom Rickshaw, Rudyard Kipling The Rival Ghosts, Brander Matthews The Damned Thing, Ambrose Bierce The Interval, Vincent… Shares: Mountain Lions, Coroners, Inquests, Short Stories

The Dark Descent David G. Hartwell · 1987 · ★ 4.3 · 1011p · ≈ 33h · Challenging pt. 1. The color of evil. The reach / Stephen King -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- The new mother / Lucy Clifford -- There's a long, long trail a-winding / Russell Kirk -- The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft -- The summer people / Shirley Jackson -- The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Mr. Justice… Shares: Mountain Lions, Coroners, Inquests, Short Stories

Can Such Things Be? [24 stories] Ambrose Bierce · 1924 · ★ 3.8 · 205p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Shares: Mountain Lions, Coroners, Inquests, Short Stories Shares: Mountain Lions, Coroners, Inquests, Short Stories

Short Stories Washington Irving · 1989 · ★ 4.0 · 299p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe The lightning-rod man / Herman Melville The diamond lens / Fitzjames O'Brien The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte Damned Thing / Ambrose Bierce The turn of the screw / Henry James The Hiltons' holiday / Sarah Orne… Shares: Mountain Lions, Coroners, Inquests, Short Stories

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce · 1980 · ★ 4.0 · 28p · ≈ 56m · Moderate "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1890) is a short story by the American writer and Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce. Described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature", it was originally published by The San Francisco Examiner on July 13, 1890, and was first collected in Bierce's book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891). The story, which is set… Shares: Union, Hanging, Classic Literature, Short Stories

Là-bas Joris-Karl Huysmans · 1890 · ★ 4.0 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Là-Bas, translated as Down There or The Damned, is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in 1891. It is Huysmans' most famous work after À rebours. Là-Bas deals with the subject of Satanism in contemporary France, and the novel stirred a certain amount of controversy on its first appearance. It is the first of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly… Shares: Satanism, Classic Literature, History

Tales of Terror [12 stories] Edgar Allan Poe · 1971 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Pit and the Pendulum Cask of Amontillado Fall of the House of Usher Tell-tale HeartMasque of the Red Death Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / by E.A. Poe -- The signal man / by C. Dickens -- The mummy's foot / by T. Gautier -- Markheim -- The body snatcher / by R.L. Stevenson -- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / by A. Bierce -- What was it? / by F. O'Brien. Shares: Hanging, Classic Literature, Short Stories, Horror

The Haunting of Toby Jugg Dennis Wheatley · 1948 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The devastation of the Second World War continues. In a castle in Wales a crippled fighter pilot struggles to regain his strength. And to preserve his sanity. Toby Jugg's courage in the air has won him a D.F.C. But now he faces the most terrifying challenge of his life. For in the quiet corridors of Llanferdrack House a ghastly conspiracy is moving towards its climax. A conspiracy planned and… Shares: Satanism, Horror

An African Millionaire Grant Allen · 1897 · 181p · ≈ 6h · Challenging "A genre classic, Grant Allen's AN AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE is the perfect addition to our mini library of classic crime fiction. Wealthy, confident, and handsome, Charles Van Drift is not accustomed to being swindled and his brush with Colonel Clay both rattles and infuriates him. As his South African diamond fortune takes hit after hit from the quick-witted master of disguise, Allen leaves even the… Shares: Classic Literature, Mystery

The Crisis Winston Churchill · 1901 · ★ 3.8 · 561p · ≈ 18h · Challenging "The novel is set in the years leading up to the first battles of the U.S. Civil War, mostly in the divided state of Missouri. It follows the fortunes of young Stephen Brice, a man with Union and abolitionist sympathies, and his involvement with a Southern family."--Wikipedia Shares: United States Civil War, Classic Literature, History

Army Life in a Black Regiment Thomas Wentworth Higginson · 1870 · ★ 3.9 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Challenging "Army Life in a Black Regiment has some claim to be the best written narrative to come from the Union [side] during the Civil War," wrote historian Henry Steele Commander. "Higginson's picture of the battle which was the origin of 'praise the Lord and pass the ammunition' and his reading of the Emancipation Proclamation to the black regiment are unsurpassed for eloquence." A Union colonel wrote… Shares: United States Civil War, History

Everville Clive Barker · 1994 · ★ 4.0 · 643p · ≈ 21h · Moderate "Our most accomplished contemporary purveyor of horror fiction strikes again in Everville, a tale of worlds in conflict. . . . [Barker's] extravagantly unconventional inventions are ingenious refractions of our common quest to experience and understand the mysterious world around us and the mysteries within ourselves."  — New York Times Book ReviewFrom master storyteller and New York… Shares: Horror, Mystery

Selected Tales and Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1900 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Shares: Satanism, Classic Literature, Short Stories Shares: Satanism, Classic Literature, Short Stories

Within the tides Joseph Conrad · 1915 · ★ 3.6 · 172p · ≈ 5h · Challenging In the private editorial office of the principal newspaper in a great colonial city two men were talking. They were both young. The stouter of the two, fair, and with more of an urban look about him, was the editor and part-owner of the important newspaper. Shares: Classic Literature, Short Stories

The Mephisto Club Tess Gerritsen · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 379p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman’s brutal murder: I HAVE SINNED. It’s a chilling Christmas greeting for Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli, who swiftly link the victim to controversial celebrity psychiatrist Joyce O’Donnell–Jane’s professional nemesis and member of a sinister cabal called the Mephisto Club. On top of Beacon Hill, the… Shares: Satanism, Mystery

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