18 books like The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Volume III. Can such things be? [42 stories]
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Can Such Things Be? [24 stories]
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The Damned Thing
"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.
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The best ghost stories
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…
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The Dark Descent
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…
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Short Stories
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…
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Great American Short Stories [48 stories]
Anthology contains:
The legend of Sleepy Hollow --
Rip Van Winkle --
The spectre bridegroom --
Young Goodman Brown
Rappaccini's daughter
The fall of the House of Usher
The gold bug --
Pit and the pendulum
The cask of amontillad
Captain Kidd's money --
Benito Cereno --
The lightning-rod man --
The diamond lens --
The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County --
The £1,000,000 bank-note --
The…
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Winter Dreams
"Winter Dreams" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that first appeared in Metropolitan Magazine in December 1922, and was collected in All the Sad Young Men in 1926. It is considered one of Fitzgerald's finest stories and is frequently anthologized. In the Fitzgerald canon, it is considered to be in the "Gatsby-cluster," as many of its themes were later expanded upon in his famous novel The…
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South Sea Tales
Despite the heavy clumsiness of her lines, the Aorai handled easily in the light breeze, and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outside the suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water, a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide, twenty miles in circumference, and from three to five feet above high-water mark. On the bottom of the huge and glassy lagoon was…
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Waifs and Strays
Urban teens take center stage in a pair of edgy short story collections. Waifs and Strays presents 15 previously published works by Canadian fantasy writer Charles de Lint, including "May This Be Your Last Sorrow" from The Essential Bordertown and "There's No Such Thing," which appeared in Yolen and Greenburg's anthology Vampires. In its first appearance, "Sisters," tells of precocious…
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
From the internationally bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris, comes a collection of his favorite short stories from acclaimed authors such as Flannery O'Connor, Jhumpa Lahiri, Tobias Wolff, and more.David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them memorized. Sometimes he fantasizes that he wrote them.…
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Whirligigs
O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: The World and the Door; The Theory and the Hound; The Hypotheses of Failure; Calloway's Code; A Matter of Mean Elevation; "Girl"; Sociology in Serge and Straw; The Ransom of Red Chief; The Marry Month of May; A Technical Error; Suite Homes and their Romance; The Whirligig of…
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Welcome to the Monkey House
Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, these superb stories share Vonnegut’s audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
Includes the following stories:
“Where I Live”
“Harrison Bergeron”
“Who Am I This…
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When God Laughs and Other Short Stories
Released in 1911, When God Laughs, and Other Stories is the eleventh collection of short stories by Jack London. In contrast with most of his other work that had been released at the time, When God Laughs is set in Polynesia. The book consists of twelve short stories that range from humorous to shocking.
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Cathedral
Twelve stories deal with loneliness, loss, the tragic banality of everyday life, and redemption.
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Mirrorshades - Una Antologia Ciberpunk
"The definitive cyberpunk short fiction collection."
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Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. The first settled line-up consisted of Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica), Ian Stewart (piano), Mick Jagger (lead vocals, harmonica), Keith Richards (guitar), Bill Wyman (bass) and Charlie The Rolling Stones (also published under the name Space Family Stone in the United Kingdom) is a 1952 science fiction novel by Robert A.…
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Stellaluna
Stellaluna is a 1993 children's book by Janell Cannon about a young fruit bat, Stellaluna, who becomes separated from her mother and finds her way to a nest of birds. She is adopted by them and learns bird-like behavior. Eventually, Stellaluna finds other bats and reunites with her mother, and she learns how to behave like a bat. She introduces the birds to her bat family. Stellaluna and the…
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The Four Million
The Four Million is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry originally released in 1906. There are twenty five stories of various lengths including several of his best known works such as "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Cop and the Anthem". The book's title refers to the then population of New York City where many of the stories are set.
The stories include;
Tobin's Palm The…
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