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The Short Story
Beverly Lawn, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorFairy Tales Every Child Should Know
Hamilton Wright Mabie · 266 pages
Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy
Douglas A. Anderson · 432 pages
The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories
Edited by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
The Lock And Key Library - Classic Mystery And Detective Stories (Timeless Classic Books)
Julian Hawthorne, Rudyard Kipling, Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Egerton Castle, Stanley J. Weyman · 368 pages
The Red Fairy Book
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang · 330 pages
Twenty-nine fairy tales from the folklore of France, Germany, Scandinavia, and Russia, including The Golden Goose, The Story of Sigurd, and The Twelve Dancing Princesses.
The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories
Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, John William Polidori, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, August Derleth, James Malcolm Rymer, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charles L. Grant, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Aickman, Bram Stoker, Carl Jacobi, Steve Rasnic Tem, M.R. James, Charles Beaumont · 640 pages
The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories is the definitive collection of short tales of those deadly bloodsuckers. Editor Alan Ryan includes a wide range of talents here, from Bram Stoker to Robert Bloch to Tanith Lee. Contents: "Fragment of a Novel" by George Gordon, Lord Byron "The Vampyre" by John Polidori "Varney the Vampyre, or, the Feast of Blood" [excerpt] by James Malcolm Rymer "The Myst
Great Horror Stories
H.G. Wells, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Walter de la Mare, Daniel Defoe · 638 pages
The Tolkien Reader
J.R.R. Tolkien · 290 pages
Anthology of Works, published 1966, including poems, short stories, a play, and some non fiction. Compilation of materials previously published as "Tree and Leaf", "Farmer Giles of Ham," and "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", along with one additional piece and intro material.
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
Richard Bausch · 1,734 pages
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol 1
H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
Michael Cox, R.A. Gilbert · 504 pages
Classic Tales of Horror
Rudyard Kipling, William Edmondstoune Aytoun, E.F. Benson, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, M.R. James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins · 240 pages
Contains: [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W) [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) Hop-Frog [Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W) King Pest Lig
40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition
Beverly Lawn, Joanne Diaz, Nathaniel Hawthorne · 470 pages
Gaslit Nightmares: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Charles Dickens, Richard Marsh, and Others
Hugh Lamb · 256 pages
Focus on the Family presents great stories remembered
Joe L. Wheeler · 373 pages
Famous Tales of the Fantastic
Herbert Van Thal, Ray Bradbury, Arthur Conan Doyle · 207 pages
The Science Fiction Megapack: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories
Ben Bova, C.M. Kornbluth, Philip K. Dick, C.L. Moore, Nelson S. Bond, J.F. Bone, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Arthur J. Burks, Peter Baily, C.C. MacApp, JOHN CORY, Lester del Rey, Charles L. Fontenay, Randall Garrett, Harry Harrison, T.D. Hamm, John Gregory Betancourt, Fredric Brown, Mack Reynolds, James · 423 pages
The Complete Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen · 286 pages
Sixteen tales including "Little Claus and Big Claus," "Father's Always Right," and "The Goblin and the Grocer."
Dubliners
James Joyce · 226 pages
James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of civilisation
The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time
Otto Penzler, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins · 568 pages