18 books like The Gold-Bug and Other Tales

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Visions of Poe [16 stories, 8 poems] Edgar Allan Poe · 1988 · ★ 4.0 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate A selection of tales and poems, visually interpreted with photographs by Simon Marsden, capturing the world as Poe envisaged it. 16 stories: Masque of the Red Death Mesmeric Revelation William Wilson The oval portrait -- The angel of the odd -- The colloquy of Monos and Una -- Black Cat Berenice Fall of the House of Usher The sphinx -- Imp of the Perverse Metzengerstein -- Premature Burial The… Shares: Berths, Crypts, Premature Burial, Taphophobia

Derniers Contes Edgar Allan Poe · 2004 · 153p · ≈ 5h · Moderate La vie d'Edgar Allan Poe n'est plus a raconter: ses derniers traducteurs francais, s'inspirant des travaux definitifs de son nouvel editeur J.H. Ingram, l'ont eloquemment venge des calomnies trop facilement acceptees sur la foi de son ami et executeur testamentaire, Rufus Griswold. En depit de ses mensonges, Edgar Poe reste pour nous et restera pour la posterite, de plus en plus admiratrice de… Shares: Unconsciousness, Phobias, Catalepsy, Satire

The Premature Burial Edgar Allan Poe · 2013 · ★ 3.8 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate "The Premature Burial" is a horror short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1844 in The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. Its main character expresses concern about being buried alive. This fear was common in this period and Poe was taking advantage of the public interest. ---------- This story also contained in: Best Horror Stories Comedies and Satires Complete Tales & Poems… Shares: Unconsciousness, Phobias, Catalepsy, Horror

Welcome to the Monkey House Kurt Vonnegut · 1950 · ★ 4.2 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Moderate 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… Shares: American Short stories, American literature, Short Stories

Winter Dreams F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2004 · ★ 3.7 · 48p · ≈ 1h · Moderate "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… Shares: American Short stories, Short Stories

South Sea Tales Jack London · 1911 · ★ 3.8 · 157p · ≈ 5h · Challenging 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… Shares: American Short stories, Short Stories

Waifs and Strays O. Henry · 1917 · 78p · ≈ 2h · Challenging 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… Shares: American Short stories, Short Stories

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules David Sedaris · 2005 · ★ 3.6 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Moderate 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.… Shares: American Short stories, Short Stories

Cuentos Edgar Allan Poe · 1970 · 850p · ≈ 28h · Moderate William Wilson Pit and the Pendulum MS. Found in a Bottle Black Cat Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Oval Portrait Tell-tale Heart Descent into the Maelstrom Cask of Amontillado Masque of the Red Death Un cuento de las Montaias Escabrosas Imp of the Perverse Premature Burial Hop-Frog Metzengerstein Oblong Box El hombre de la multitud La cita Sombra Eleonora Morella Berenice Ligeia Fall of the… Shares: Catalepsy, Satire, American Horror tales, Short Stories

After the People Lights Have Gone Off Stephen Graham Jones · 2014 · ★ 3.8 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A collection of stories that tap into the horrors and fears of the supernatural-- as well as the everyday. Shares: American Horror tales, Short Stories

Whirligigs O. Henry · 1910 · ★ 3.7 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Challenging 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… Shares: American Short stories, Short Stories

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: Catalepsy, American Short stories, American Horror tales, Short Stories

A Book of Short Stories Stuart Pratt Sherman · 1914 · ★ 3.6 · 353p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The minister's black veil. Ethan Brand. Edgar Allan Poe: Fall of the House of Usher, the gold-bug. Charles Dickens: The signalman. Frank Stockton: The lady, or the tiger. Thomas Hardy: The three strangers. Robert Louis Stevenson: Will o' the mill, The Sire de Maletroit's door. Sir James Matthew Barrie: The courting of T'nowhead's… Shares: Catalepsy, American Short stories, American Horror tales, 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: Catalepsy, American Short stories, American Horror tales, Short Stories

Tales of Mystery and Imagination [29 stories] Edgar Allan Poe · 1983 · 431p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares: Catalepsy, American Short stories, American Horror tales, Short Stories Shares: Catalepsy, American Short stories, American Horror tales, Short Stories

Can Such Things Be? Ambrose Bierce · 1909 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Ambrose Bierce’s second major short story collection, Can Such Things Be? collected nearly all of Bierce’s supernatural horror stories. Bierce himself was a skeptic of the supernatural, having once written a satirical essay “The Clothing of Ghosts,” in which he insisted that “The materialized spook appealing to our senses for recognition of his ghostly character must authenticate himself… Shares: American Short stories, American Horror tales, Short Stories

The Four Million O. Henry · 1906 · ★ 4.0 · 225p · ≈ 7h · Challenging 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… Shares: American Short stories, American literature, Short Stories

H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction H. P. Lovecraft · 2011 · ★ 4.3 · 1104p · ≈ 36h · Moderate A collection of Lovecraft's published works written between 1917 and 1935. Also includes an introduction, juvenilia, and an essay on the genre. Shares: American literature, Horror

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