18 books like The American Short Story [59 stories]

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Great Short Stories Wilbur Lang Schramm · 1950 · 536p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte Open boat / Stephen Crane All-gold canon / Jack London Furnished room / O. Henry Lost phoebe / Theodore Dreiser Neighbor rosicky / Willa Cather Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson Now I lay me / Ernest Hemingway By the waters of Babylon / Stephen Vincent Benet Leader of the people /… Shares: Short Story, Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories

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, American Short stories, Short Stories, Horror

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

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, History, 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, American Short stories, Short Stories, Horror

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, American Short stories, Short Stories, Horror

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

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

The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Stories Leslie Shepard · 1977 · ★ 3.8 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate 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.… Shares: American Short stories, Short Stories, Horror, Children's fiction

Selected Prose and Poetry Edgar Allan Poe · 1950 · 528p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Shares: American Short stories, Short Stories, Horror, Mystery Shares: American Short stories, Short Stories, Horror, Mystery

Main-travelled roads Hamlin Garland · 1891 · 258p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Raised on farms throughout the midwest, Hamlin Garland moved to Boston as a young man and became a writer. A visit with his family in the Dakota Territory resulted in a "depressing but eye-opening return to the places of his boyhood, [providing] the stimulus and material for his first fiction. With the perspective distance had given him, he sensed the 'tragic futility' of the farmers' existence… Shares: American Short stories, Social life and customs, 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

Tales of Mystery and Imagination [12 stories] Edgar Allan Poe · 1965 · 337p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares: American Short stories, Short Stories, Horror, Mystery Shares: American Short stories, Short Stories, Horror, Mystery

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

Inbetween Tara Fuller · 2012 · ★ 3.7 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Since the car crash that took her father’s life three years ago, Emma’s life has been a freaky—and unending—lesson in caution. Surviving “accidents” has taken priority over being a normal seventeen-year-old, so Emma spends her days taking pictures of life instead of living it. Falling in love with a boy was never part of the plan. Falling for a reaper who makes her chest ache and her head spin?… Shares: Death, Children's fiction

The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition Ann Charters · 2015 · 1775p · ≈ 59h · Moderate Part One: Stories -- Chinua Achebe / Civil Peace -- Sherman Alexie / The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven -- Isabelle Allende / An Act of Vengeance -- Sherwood Anderson / Hands -- Margaret Atwood / Happy Endings -- Isaac Babel / My First Goose -- James Baldwin / Sonny's Blues --Toni Cade Bambara / The Lesson -- Russell Banks / Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat -- Lynda… Shares: Short Stories, Horror, Mystery, History

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