18 books like Six Tales (Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Oblong Box / Pit and the Pendulum)
Selected English Short Stories (Nineteenth Century)
Scott, Sir Walter. The two drovers. Wandering Willie's tale.
Lamb, Charles. The witch aunt.
Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The snow image. The threefold destiny. Dr. Heidegger's experiment. Howe's masquerade.
Disraeli, Benjamin. Ixion in heaven.
Poe, E.A. Fall of the House of Usher. Pit and the Pendulum. Eleonora.
Gaskell, Elizabeth C. The squire's story.
Brown,…
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The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Stories
Dickens, C. Captain Murderer. --
Poe, E.A. Pit and the Pendulum
Lytton, Lord. The haunted and the haunters, or The house and the brain. --
Maupassant, G. de. The inn. --
Jerome, J.K. The dancing partner. --
Caterpillars. --
Stoker, B. The judge's house. --
Hodgson, W.H. The voice in the night. --
James, M.R. Count Magnus. --
Lovecraft, H.P. The festival. --
Hartley, L.P. The travelling grave.…
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Selected Prose and Poetry
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![Cover of Tales of Mystery and Imagination [12 stories]](/covers/11725454.jpg)
Tales of Mystery and Imagination [12 stories]
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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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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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![Cover of The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition](/covers/6699609.jpg)
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Selections include:
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Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
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A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin
The Cask of Amontillado
Fall of the House of Usher
The Glass Menagerie by Tennesse Williams
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Song of the Poison Dragon
Dragon Masters are excited to meet the newest Dragon Master, Petra. But when she arrives at the castle, she doesn't fit in right away. She's a know-it-all, and she doesn't even try to connect with her four-headed dragon! Could the Dragon Stone have chosen her by mistake? Then something terrible happens to the king. Petra will have to work with the other Dragon Masters to save him before it's too…
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Werewolves
A collection of fifteen stories by a variety of authors about the, sometime frightening, sometime humorous, phenomena of werewolves.
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In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories
Seven scary stories to tell at night in front of a fire or in the dark, based on traditional stories and folktales from various countries.
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Fear Street Super Chiller - Goodnight Kiss
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.....
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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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Great Short Stories of the World -- a collection of complete short stories chosen from the literatures of all periods and countries
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…
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![Cover of The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales [15 stories]](/covers/11695570.jpg)
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales [15 stories]
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![Cover of Selected Stories and Poems [10 stories, 12 poems]](/covers/13353261.jpg)
Selected Stories and Poems [10 stories, 12 poems]
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The best horror stories
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…
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![Cover of Tales of Mystery and Imagination [13 stories]](/covers/11674551.jpg)
Tales of Mystery and Imagination [13 stories]
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Sterling Stories
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…
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