18 books like The Pit and the Pendulum

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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: Spanish Inquisition, Pendulums, Fear, American 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: Pendulums, Short Story, Fear, American Short stories

Selected Prose and Poetry Edgar Allan Poe · 1950 · 528p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Shares: Spanish Inquisition, Pendulums, Fear, American Short stories Shares: Spanish Inquisition, Pendulums, Fear, American 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: Spanish Inquisition, Pendulums, Fear, American Short stories

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

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, American literature, Short Stories

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 stories, Horror, Children's fiction

In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories Alvin Schwartz · 1984 · ★ 4.4 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Seven scary stories to tell at night in front of a fire or in the dark, based on traditional stories and folktales from various countries. Shares: Fear, Horror stories, Short Stories, Horror

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

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: Horror stories, Short Stories, Horror, Children's fiction

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, American Horror tales, Short Stories

Great Short Stories of the World -- a collection of complete short stories chosen from the literatures of all periods and countries Barrett Harper Clark · 1922 · 1076p · ≈ 35h · Challenging The two brothers (Anpu and Bata) / Anonymous -- Setna and the magic book / Anonymous -- Eumæus' : talk / Homer -- The country mouse and the town mouse / Æsop -- King Rhampsinitus and the thief / Herodotus -- Phineus and the harpies / Apollonius of Rhodes -- The robbers of Egypt / Heliodorus -- Horatius at the bridge / Livy -- Orpheus and the Eurydice / Ovid -- The shipwreck of Simonides / Phædrus… Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, American literature, Short Stories

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales [15 stories] Edgar Allan Poe · 1960 · ★ 3.9 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, American literature, Short Stories Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, American literature, Short Stories

Selected Stories and Poems [10 stories, 12 poems] Edgar Allan Poe · 1967 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, American literature, Short Stories Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, American literature, Short Stories

The best horror stories Robert Bloch · 1990 · 398p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Black Cat / Edgar Allan Poe -- Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Premature Burial / Edgar Allan Poe -- Torture of hope / Villiers de L'Isle Adam -- An episode of the terror / Honore de Balzac -- The hand / Guy de Maupassant -- The withered arm / Thomas Hardy -- The idiots / Joseph Conrad -- The bird / Thomas Burke -- Lot no. 249 / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The sentence / J. Kaden-Bandrowski… Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, American literature, Short Stories

Tales of Mystery and Imagination [13 stories] Edgar Allan Poe · 1909 · 374p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, American literature, Short Stories Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, American literature, Short Stories

Sterling Stories Yvonne Collioud Sisko · 2006 · ★ 3.8 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Salvation / Langston Hughes -- Ah Bah's money / Catherine Lim -- Cranes / Hwang Sunwon -- Bone girl / Joseph Bruchac -- The hockey sweater / Roch Carrier -- Strong temptations -- strategic movements -- the innocents beguiled / Mark Twain -- Marlene's adventures / Anita Endrezze -- Trail of the green blazer / R.K. Narayan -- Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin… Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, American literature, Short Stories

Poe stories and poems [17 stories, 9 poems] Edgar Allan Poe · 1986 · 161p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, American literature, Short Stories Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, American literature, Short Stories

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