18 books like The Penguin Book of American Short Stories

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Gateway to Hell Dennis Wheatley · 1970 · ★ 4.0 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The door was not locked, and opened easily. He switched on the light, and Richard followed him into the room. Nella lay on the bed. She had on the nightdress she had been lent, but the bedclothes had been pulled halfway down. Her head was twisted back grotesquely. Her mouth gaped open and her tongue had been cut out. It had been carefully placed in the valley between her naked breasts. The Duke… Shares: Satanism, Horror, Children's fiction

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, American Horror tales, Psychology, 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, American Horror tales, Short Stories

Selected English Short Stories (Nineteenth Century) Walker, Hugh · 1914 · 486p · ≈ 16h · Challenging 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,… Shares: Burial Vaults, American Short stories, American Horror tales, Short Stories

The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition James Edwin Miller · 1952 · ★ 4.0 · 820p · ≈ 27h · Moderate Selections include: ... Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne ... An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce ... A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin The Cask of Amontillado Fall of the House of Usher The Glass Menagerie by Tennesse Williams Shares: Burial Vaults, American Horror tales, Short Stories, Horror

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, American Horror tales, Short Stories

The American Short Story [59 stories] Thomas K. Parkes · 1994 · 1003p · ≈ 33h · Challenging Rip Van Winkle ; The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Fall of the House of Usher ; The murders in the Rue Morgue ; The purloined letter / Edgar Allen Poe -- Benito Cereno / Herman Melville -- The man without a country / Edward Everett Hale -- The lady, or the tiger / Frank R. Stockton -- The celebrated jumping from of Calaveras County ;… Shares: Short Story, American Short stories, Short Stories, Horror

Devil's Race Avi · 1984 · ★ 3.5 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Sixteen-year-old John Proud is tormented by the ghost of an evil ancestor, with his own name and his own face, who was hanged in 1854 for being a demon. Shares: Devil, 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: American Horror tales, Psychology, Short Stories, Horror

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, American Horror tales, Short Stories, Horror

There's a Zombie in the Basement Stan Yan · 2016 Milo won't fall asleep because he things the monsters in the basement are gonna get him. And, if he can't get to sleep, no one will. Mom and Dad better hope his wild imagination doesn't get the best of him. Shares: Boys, Children's fiction

The Story and its Writer -- Third Edition Ann Charters · 1991 · ★ 2.0 · 1607p · ≈ 53h · Challenging Dead men's path/Achebe Oasis/Adams Kugelmass episode/Allen Death in the woods ; Hands/Anderson Happy endings/Atwood My first goose/Babel Sonny's blues/Baldwin Hammer man/Bambara Lost in the funhouse/Barth School/Barthelme Burning house/Beattie An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge/Bierce Like a bad dream/Böll Garden of forking paths/Borges This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen/Borowski Distant… Shares: American Horror tales, Psychology, Short Stories, Horror

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, Short Stories, Horror, Children's fiction

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

A study of the short story Henry Seidel Canby · 1913 · 273p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Shares: Short Story, American Horror tales, Short Stories, Horror Shares: Short Story, American Horror tales, Short Stories, Horror

Werewolves Martin H. Greenberg · 1988 · ★ 4.0 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A collection of fifteen stories by a variety of authors about the, sometime frightening, sometime humorous, phenomena of werewolves. Shares: American Horror tales, Horror, Children's fiction

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

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

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