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Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel · 2014 · ★ 4.1 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of "King Lear." Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur's chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a… Shares: Community pick

A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara · 2008 · ★ 4.3 · 730p · ≈ 24h · Moderate A Little Life is a 2015 novel by American novelist Hanya Yanagihara. The novel was written over the course of eighteen months. Despite the length and difficult subject matter, it became a bestseller. Shares: Community pick

The secret wisdom of the earth Christopher Scotton · 2014 · ★ 4.1 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate "After witnessing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, 14-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The events of this fateful summer… Shares: Community pick

Great American Short Stories from Hawthorne to Hemingway Corinne Demas · 2004 · 560p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bartleby the Scrivener / Herman Melville -- The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Langhorne Clemens -- Occurrence at… Shares: Hysteria, Heroic Romances, Hermitages, Burial Vaults

The Evil Image Patricia L. Skarda · 1981 · ★ 4.3 · 479p · ≈ 15h · Moderate xi • General Introduction (The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry) • essay by Patricia L. Skarda and Nora Crow Jaffe xxv • Critical Studies of the Gothic • essay by uncredited 2 • The Apparition of Mrs. Veal • (1919) • short story by Daniel Defoe (variant of A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury… Shares: Hysteria, Heroic Romances, Hermitages, Burial Vaults

Great American Short Stories Wallace Stegner · 1957 · 511p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Shares: Hysteria, Heroic Romances, Hermitages, Burial Vaults Shares: Hysteria, Heroic Romances, Hermitages, Burial Vaults

The Elements of the Short Story Edward Everett Hale, Jr. · 1915 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Challenging The legend of Sleepy Hollow, by W. Irving Rip Van Winkle, by W. Irving Irving as a story writer The great stone face, by N. Hawthorne Ethan Brand, by N. Hawthorne Hawthorne as a story writer Fall of the House of Usher, by E. A. Poe The murders in the Rue Morgue, by E. A. Poe Poe as a story writer The diamond lens, by F.-J. O'Brien The man without a country, by E. E. Hale The outcasts of Poker… Shares: Hysteria, Heroic Romances, Hermitages, Burial Vaults

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

American Short Stories Charles Sears Baldwin · 1904 · 333p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Pt. 1. The tentative period: Irving, W. Rip Van Winkle. Austin W. Peter Rugg, the missing man. Hall, J. The French village. Pike, A. the inroad of the Nabajo. Pt. 2. The period of the new form: Hawthorne, N. The white old maid. Longfellow, H.W. The notary of Périgueux. Poe, E.A. Fall of the House of Usher Willis, N.P. The inlet of peach blossoms. Kirkland, C.M.S. The bee-tree. O'Brien,… Shares: Hysteria, Heroic Romances, Hermitages, Burial Vaults

Tales of Mystery and Imagination [29 stories] Edgar Allan Poe · 1983 · 431p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares: Hysteria, Heroic Romances, Hermitages, Burial Vaults Shares: Hysteria, Heroic Romances, Hermitages, Burial Vaults

Fiction 100 James H. Pickering · 1988 · 1533p · ≈ 51h · Challenging The Grand inquisitor / Fëdor Dostoevski -- The Adventure of the speckled band / Arthur Conan Doyle -- King of the Bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- Barn burning Dry September -- A Rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Road from Colonus / E.M. Forster -- Aura / Carlos Fuentes -- Watch time fly / Laura Furman -- A Very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel G.… Shares: Heroic Romances, Hermitages, Burial Vaults, Catalepsy

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Edgar Allan Poe · 1840 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Morella -- Lionizing -- William Wilson The man that was used up -- Fall of the House of Usher The Duc de l'Omelette -- Ms. found in a bottle -- Bon-bon -- Shadow -- The devil in the belfry -- Ligeia -- King Pest -- The Signora Zenobia -- The scythe of time -- Epimanes -- Siope -- Hans Phaall -- A tale of Jerusalem -- Von Jung -- Loss of breath -- Metzengerstein -- Berenice Why the little… Shares: Hysteria, Heroic Romances, Hermitages, Burial Vaults

Erzählungen Edgar Allan Poe · 1989 · 781p · ≈ 26h · Moderate Manuskript in der Flasche Berenice Morella Stelldichein Ligeia Fall of the House of Usher William Wilson Mann der Menge Mord in der Rue Morgue Descent into the Maelstrom ovale Porträt Masque of the Red Death Eleonora Geheimis der Marie Rogêt Tell-tale Heart Goldkäfer Black Cat Pit and the Pendulum Im Felsengebirge Premature Burial längliche Kiste Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Purloined… Shares: Hysteria, Heroic Romances, Hermitages, Burial Vaults

The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Tales - Volume I Edgar Allan Poe · 1908 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Shares: Hysteria, Heroic Romances, Hermitages, Burial Vaults Shares: Hysteria, Heroic Romances, Hermitages, Burial Vaults

Historias Extraordinarias Edgar Allan Poe · 1996 · 504p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Doble asesinato en la calle morgue -- El escarabajo de oro -- Descent into the Maelstrom Black Cat William Wilson Tell-tale Heart Aventura sin par de un tal Hans Pfaall -- Pit and the Pendulum Cask of Amontillado Ligeia -- Metzengerstein -- Purloined Letter Fall of the House of Usher Berenice Premature Burial Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Shares: Hysteria, Heroic Romances, Hermitages, Burial Vaults

The experience of literature Gene Montague · 1966 · 803p · ≈ 26h · Moderate Shares: Hysteria, Heroic Romances, Hermitages, Burial Vaults

The Horror hall of fame Robert Silverberg · 1991 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares: Hysteria, Heroic Romances, Hermitages, Burial Vaults Shares: Hysteria, Heroic Romances, Hermitages, Burial Vaults

Tales Edgar Allan Poe · 2005 · 349p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Assignation (the Visionary) Berenice Bon-Bon Conversation of Eiros and Charmion Descent into the Maelstrom Devil in the Belfry Duc de L-Omelette Fall of the House of Usher Folio Club Four Beasts in One: the Homo-Cameleopard How to Write a Blackwood Article King Pest Ligeia Lionizing Loss of Breath Man That Was Used Up Metzengerstein Morella Ms. Found in a Bottle Predicament Shadow Silence — A… Shares: Hysteria, Heroic Romances, Hermitages, Burial Vaults

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