21 Best short stories books like 1979 Short Stories (Study Guide): The Way of Cross and Dragon by Books LLC

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1979 Short Stories (Study Guide): The Way of Cross and Dragon

By: Books LLC

3.77

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

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1. The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr

By: George R.R. Martin

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Tired and bloody from her battle with the Seven, Sharra stumbles through the gate onto a pristine p… read more

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"When she walks at night, a stranger in a lonely land, does the sky have stars?"

-George R.R. Martin, The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr

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2. The Masque of the Red Death

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more

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"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

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3. The Second Kind of Loneliness

By: George R.R. Martin

4.04

Format: 96 pages,

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4. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.37

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more

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"Would you walk away from Omelas?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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5. Remembering Melody

By: George R.R. Martin

3.87

Format: None pages,

A horror short story, written by George R. R. Martin in the early 1980s. read more

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6. The Black Cat

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more

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7. A Song for Lya

By: George R.R. Martin

4.35

Format: 26 pages,

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8. With Morning Comes Mistfall

By: George R.R. Martin , Claudia Black

4.00

Format: 158 pages, Audiobook

A science fiction short story, first published by Analog magazine in May 1973. It was the first sto… read more

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9. Bloodchild

By: Octavia E. Butler

5.00

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

Contains the short story Bloodchild only. Years ago a group known as the Terrans left Earth in sear… read more

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10. The Pit and the Pendulum

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.15

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more

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"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

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11. Bilbo's Last Song

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Pauline Baynes

4.50

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Bilbo's Last Songis considered by many to be Tolkien's epilogue to his classic work The Lord of the… read more

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12. The Tell-Tale Heart

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None

4.24

Format: 31 pages, Library Binding

A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more

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"would a madman have been so wise as this?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

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13. The Monkey Treatment

By: George R.R. Martin

3.40

Format: 320 pages,

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14. Sandkings

By: George R.R. Martin

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When Simon Kress returned to his home planet of Baldur from an offworld business trip, he was amuse… read more

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15. Bitterblooms

By: George R.R. Martin

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

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16. The Pear Shaped Man (Pulphouse Short Story Paperbacks, Ssp #37)

By: George R.R. Martin

3.97

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

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17. Dreamsongs, Volume I

By: George R.R. Martin

3.78

Format: 288 pages,

Dubbed the American Tolkien by Timemagazine, #1 New York Timesbestselling author George R.R. Martin… read more

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18. And Seven Times Never Kill Man

By: George R.R. Martin

3.81

Format: 263 pages,

A bunch of religious zealots try to colonize the planet by slaughtering seemingly weak and incapabl… read more

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19. The Ice Dragon

By: George R.R. Martin , None

4.57

Format: 272 pages,

The ice dragon was a creature of legend and fear, for no man had ever tamed one. When it flew overh… read more

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20. The Fall of the House of Usher

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.87

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more

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"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

21. The Hero

By: George R.R. Martin

4.00

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

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22. This Tower of Ashes

By: George R.R. Martin

4.05

Format: 208 pages,

A short story in George R. R. Martin's "The Thousand Worlds" setting. read more

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23. Meathouse Man

By: George R.R. Martin , Raya Golden

2.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Based on the short story by George R.R. Martin, bestselling author of A Game of Thrones, Meathouse … read more

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24. Nightflyers

By: George R.R. Martin

2.57

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nine misfit academics embark on an expedition, and the only ship available is the Nightflyer, a cyb… read more

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25. 1979 Short Stories (Study Guide): The Way of Cross and Dragon

By: Books LLC

3.77

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book cl… read more

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26. La ciudad de piedra

By: George R.R. Martin

3.22

Format: 37 pages, ebook

En un tiempo lejano, la Humanidad se ha extendido por los limites de nuestra Galaxia. Un humano que… read more

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27. In the Lost Lands

By: George R.R. Martin

3.82

Format: None pages, None

Short story. read more

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28. The Exit to San Breta

By: George R.R. Martin

3.27

Format: None pages, None

A short ghost story written by Martin in the early 1970s. read more

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29. And Death His Legacy

By: George R.R. Martin

3.56

Format: None pages, None

A politically-themed short story written by Martin while he was in college. read more

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30. Only Kids Are Afraid of the Dark

By: George R.R. Martin

2.37

Format: None pages, None

A very early story from George R. R. Martin, part of his "Dr. Weird" superhero writings from his yo… read more

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31. The Fortress

By: George R.R. Martin

3.00

Format: None pages, None

A short story about the Siege of Sveaborg, written by Martin as a history paper for college. read more

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The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr

George R.R. Martin

3.90

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4.06

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Ursula K. Le Guin

4.37

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George R.R. Martin

4.35

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Richard K. Morgan

4.02

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Philip Pullman

4.10

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Glen Cook

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