15 best-selling classics books like How It Happened by Arthur Conan Doyle

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How It Happened

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

About the Author-Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottis…

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1. The Happy Prince

By: Oscar Wilde , Jane Ray

4.20

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

When he was alive, the Happy Prince lived in the Palace of Sans Souci, where sorrow was not allowed… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
"There is no Mystery so great as Misery."

-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

"Bring me the two most precious things in the city,"

-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

"Sono così intelligente che a volte non capisco una sola parola di quel che sto dicendo."

-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

"Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose,…"

-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

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2. Lost Hearts

By: M.R. James , Danko Krilić

3.60

Format: 332 pages, ebook

The tale tells the story of Stephen Elliott, a young orphan boy, who is sent to stay with his much … read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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3. The Open Window (Simplified for Modern Readers Series)

By: Saki , George Lakon

3.77

Format: 7 pages, Kindle Edition

"The Open Window" is the Saki (H. H. Munro) classic short story that continues to fascinate readers… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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4. 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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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"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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5. The Signalman

By: Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn

3.66

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Presents the tale of a young man who, after listening to an eccentric railroad signalman's predicti… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"Hallow! Below there!"

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

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6. The Oval Portrait

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.94

Format: None pages,

In this story of artistic obsession, a wounded man finds shelter in an abandoned chteau in the Appe… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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7. The Open Window

By: Saki

3.51

Format: 178 pages,

Framton Nuttel, a nervous man, has come to stay in the country for his health. His sister, who thin… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
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8. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories

By: Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The stories found in A Haunted Housereflect Virginia Woolf's experimental writing style and act as … read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
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9. An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.83

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was … read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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10. 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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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"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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11. The Cone

By: H.G. Wells

5.00

Format: None pages,

The Cone is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 in Unicorn. It was intended to be… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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12. Rats

By: M.R. James

3.65

Format: 276 pages, ebook

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  • short stories
  • horror

13. The Shadows on The Wall

By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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14. The Little Sisters of Eluria

By: Stephen King , None , Michael Whelan

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

This 4,000 copy Limited Artist Edition is numbered and is signed by Michael Whelan. It is issued in… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

15. The Eyes Have It

By: Philip K. Dick

4.05

Format: 336 pages, ebook

It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another p… read more

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16. Ligeia

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.51

Format: 235 pages,

Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. read more

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17. About Love and Other Stories

By: Anton Chekhov , Rosamund Bartlett

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Raymond Carver called Anton Chekhov "the greatest short story writer who has ever lived." This uneq… read more

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18. The Mezzotint

By: M.R. James

5.00

Format: 646 pages,

This short story of the supernatural was originally published in 1904. It concerns a university don… read more

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19. Eleonora

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.46

Format: 170 pages,

Eleonorais a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842 in Philadelphia in the literar… read more

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20. Luck

By: Mark Twain

3.70

Format: None pages,

A famous short story read more

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21. Beyond Lies the Wub

By: Philip K. Dick

4.07

Format: None pages,

"The wub, sir," Peterson said. "It spoke!" The slovenly wub might well have said: Many men talk li… read more

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22. The Squaw

By: Bram Stoker

4.40

Format: 80 pages,

"The Squaw" was first published in book form in 1914 in Stoker's third collection of short stories … read more

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23. The Kiss

By: Kate Chopin

4.22

Format: 160 pages,

A short story by Kate Chopin. read more

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24. Wailing Well

By: M.R. James

3.86

Format: 157 pages, ebook

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25. The Moonlit Road

By: Ambrose Bierce

3.48

Format: None pages, None

*short story read more

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  • horror
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26. The Open Window

By: Saki

4.14

Format: 4 pages, ebook

None read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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27. Mrs Badgery

By: Wilkie Collins

3.57

Format: 10 pages, Kindle Edition

This seemingly comic short story by Wilkie Collins, has a darker side to it, dealing with grief and… read more

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  • short stories

28. Tarquin of Cheapside

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

2.51

Format: None pages, None

Tarquin of Cheapside by Francis Scott Fitzgerald This short story was first published in the "Smart… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories

29. In a Far-Off World

By: Olive Schreiner

2.38

Format: None pages, None

Short story. read more

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  • short stories
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30. A Night of Horror

By: J.E. Preston Muddock

3.41

Format: 11 pages, ebook

None read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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31. How It Happened

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

About the Author-Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottis… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror

20 Top short stories books like How It Happened by Arthur Conan Doyle

Transform Your Habits

The Happy Prince

Oscar Wilde , Jane Ray

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Lost Hearts

M.R. James , Danko Krilić

3.60

Transform Your Habits

The Open Window (Simplified for Modern Readers Series)

Saki , George Lakon

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

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The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

Arthur Conan Doyle

3.60

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The New Dress

Virginia Woolf

3.67

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The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

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The Signalman

Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn

3.66

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