18 books like Great Short Stories

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The American Short Story [59 stories] Thomas K. Parkes · 1994 · 1003p · ≈ 33h · Challenging 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 ;… Shares: Short Story, Manners and customs, Social life and customs, 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, Short Stories, Horror, Mystery

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, Short Stories, Horror, Mystery

The little bookroom Eleanor Farjeon · 1955 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Collects twenty-seven of Eleanor Farjeon's stories, which include kings, princesses, servants, a mysterious flower, orphans, enchanted woods, an organ-grinder, giants, a little dressmaker, fairies, and a kindly farmer. Shares: Short Stories, Children's fiction

Agostino Alberto Moravia · 1944 · ★ 3.5 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored and unloved, begins hanging around with a group of local young toughs. Though repelled by their squalor and brutality, and repeatedly humiliated for his weakness and ignorance when it comes to women and sex, the… Shares: Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Children's fiction

A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887 · ★ 4.1 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Challenging A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in literature. Shares: Detective Fiction, Mystery, Children's fiction

Campfire Chillers Edith M. Freeman · 1980 · 185p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares: Short Story, Short Stories, Horror, Children's fiction Shares: Short Story, Short Stories, Horror, Children's fiction

Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing · 1800 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The reminiscences of a young girl growing up in early nineteenth-century England. Shares: Short Stories, Children's fiction

Fear Street Super Chiller - Goodnight Kiss Robert Lawrence Stine · 1992 · ★ 4.2 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Fear Street Super Chiller Matt, his girlfriend April, and his friend Todd just wanted a peaceful summer at the beach. But that all changes when April and Todd suddenly become weak and pale.....and have two puncture wounds on their necks....and they might have something to do with the two bats flying over the beach..... Shares: Short Stories, Horror, Children's fiction

The Sleepwalker Robert Lawrence Stine · 1990 · ★ 4.0 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Moderate One week after she starts her summer job on Fear Street with old Mrs. Cottler, Mayra Barnes begins to sleepwalk, always waking up outdoors in the middle of the night never knowing where she is! Things take a disturbing turn when Mayra discovers Mrs. Cottler may be a witch. Is the old woman casting a spell on Mayra to make her sleepwalk? More horrifying, Mayra is being followed by a menacing… Shares: Horror, Mystery, Children's fiction

The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe · 1907 · ★ 3.9 · 33p · ≈ 1h · Challenging "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… Shares: Short Story, Short Stories, Horror, Children's fiction

A study of the short story Henry Seidel Canby · 1913 · 273p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Shares: Short Story, Short Stories, Horror, Children's fiction Shares: Short Story, Short Stories, Horror, Children's fiction

The Penguin Book of American Short Stories Cochrane, James. · 1971 · ★ 4.0 · 423p · ≈ 14h · Moderate 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… Shares: Short Story, Short Stories, Horror, Children's fiction

Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective Donald J. Sobol · 1963 · ★ 4.0 · 111p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Fifth-grader "Encyclopedia" Leroy Brown solves ten mysteries and, by putting the solutions at the back of the book, challenges the reader to do the same. Shares: Short Stories, Mystery, Children's fiction

9 From the Nine Worlds Rick Riordan · 2018 · ★ 4.4 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Beloved characters from the Magnus Chase series star in these short stories, each set in a different one of the Nine Worlds from Norse mythology. The Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard trilogy may have concluded, but we haven't heard the last of our favorite peeps from the Nine Worlds. Join Hearthstone, Blitzen, Samirah, Alex, Jack, T.J., Mallory, Halfborn, and more on a hilarious and… Shares: Short Stories, Children's fiction

In the Shadow of the Master Edgar Allan Poe · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 389p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Few have crafted stories as haunting as those by Edgar Allan Poe. Collected here to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Poe's birth are sixteen of his best tales accompanied by twenty essays from beloved authors, including T. Jefferson Parker, Lawrence Block, Sara Paretsky, and Joseph Wambaugh, among others, on how Poe has changed their life and work.Michael Connelly recounts the inspiration he… Shares: Short Stories, Horror, Mystery, Children's fiction

The Magic World Edith Nesbit · 1959 · ★ 3.8 · 172p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Twelve stories with magic occurrences. Shares: Short Stories, Children's fiction

Sorcery & Cecelia Patricia C. Wrede · 1988 · ★ 4.1 · 321p · ≈ 10h · Moderate being the correspondence of two young ladies of quality regarding various magical scandals in London and the country In 1817 in England, two young cousins, Cecilia living in the country and Kate in London, write letters to keep each other informed of their exploits, which take a sinister turn when they find themselves confronted by evil wizards. A great deal is happening in London and the… Shares: Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Children's fiction

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