18 books like The Penguin Book of American Short Stories

What to read after The Penguin Book of American Short Stories — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

La Fille de Rappaccini et autres contes fantastiques Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1989 · 36p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Shares Catechism, Puritans, Satanism, Devil with this book. Shares Catechism, Puritans, Satanism, Devil

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:… Shares Short Story, American Horror tales, Psychology, Short Stories

Gateway to Hell Dennis Wheatley · 1970 · ★ 4.0 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Satanism, Horror, Children's fiction with this book.

Representative Selections, With Introduction, Bibliography, And Notes Edgar Allan Poe · 1935 · 563p · ≈ 18h · Moderate 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… Shares Short Story, American Short stories, American Horror tales, Short Stories

The Elements of the Short Story Edward Everett Hale, Jr. · 1915 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Moderate 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… Shares Short Story, Burial Vaults, American Short stories, American Horror tales

A Book of Short Stories Stuart Pratt Sherman · 1914 · ★ 3.5 · 353p · ≈ 11h · Moderate 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… Shares Short Story, Burial Vaults, American Short stories, American Horror tales

After the People Lights Have Gone Off

After the People Lights Have Gone Off Stephen Graham Jones · 2014 · ★ 3.7 · 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

Winter Dreams F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2004 · ★ 3.7 · 48p · ≈ 1h · Light "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

Waifs and Strays O. Henry · 1917 · 78p · ≈ 2h · Moderate 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

South Sea Tales Jack London · 1911 · ★ 3.8 · 157p · ≈ 5h · Moderate 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

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

The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition James Edwin Miller · 1952 · ★ 4.0 · 820p · ≈ 27h · Challenging 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

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

The White People Arthur Machen · 2004 · ★ 3.8 · 42p · ≈ 1h · Light "The White People" is a horror short story by Welsh author Arthur Machen. Written in the late 1890s, it was first published in 1904 in Horlick's Magazine, edited by Machen's friend A. E. Waite, then reprinted in Machen's collection The House of Souls. Shares Short Story, Horror

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… Shares American Horror tales, Psychology, Short Stories, Horror

Short Stories Schweikert, Harry Christian · 1925 · 566p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Shares Short Story, Burial Vaults, American Horror tales, Short Stories with this book.

Short stories , Enlarged Edition Harry Christian Schweikert · 1934 · ★ 4.5 · 612p · ≈ 20h · Challenging Token / Joseph Hergesheimer Third ingredient / O. Henry Turkey red / Frances Gilchrist Wood Elephant remembers / Edison Marshall Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe Postmistress of Laurel Run / Bret Harte Ambitious guest / Nathaniel Hawthorne Penrod's busy day / Booth Tarkington Young man Axelbrod / Sinclair Lewis Ice water, pl! / Fannie Hurst Heyday of the blood / Dorothy… Shares Short Story, Burial Vaults, American Horror tales, Short Stories

The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe · 1907 · ★ 4.0 · 33p · ≈ 1h · Moderate "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

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