22 must-read short stories books like The Mysteries of the Joy Rio by Tennessee Williams

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The Mysteries of the Joy Rio

By: Tennessee Williams

3.44

Format: None pages, None

"Sometimes you will find it and other times you won’t find it and the times you don’t find it are t…

"Clocks and watches he ficed with marvelous delicacy and precision, but he paid no attention to them; he had grown as obliviously accustomed to their many small noises as someone grows to the sound of waves who has always lived by the sea."

-Tennessee Williams, The Mysteries of the Joy Rio

"Clocks and watches he ficed with marvelous delicacy and precision, but he paid no attention to them; he had grown as obliviously accustomed to their many small noises as someone grows to the sound of waves who has always lived by the sea."

-Tennessee Williams, The Mysteries of the Joy Rio

"Clocks and watches he ficed with marvelous delicacy and precision, but he paid no attention to them; he had grown as obliviously accustomed to their many small noises as someone grows to the sound of waves who has always lived by the sea."

-Tennessee Williams, The Mysteries of the Joy Rio

"A single watch or clock can be a powerful influence on a man, but when a man lives among as many watches and clocks as crowded the tiny, dim shop of Mr Gonzales, some lagging behind, some skipping ahead, but all ticking monotonously on in their witless fashion, the multitude of them may be likely to deprive them of importance, as a gem loses its value when there are too many just like it which are too easily or cheaply obtainable."

-Tennessee Williams, The Mysteries of the Joy Rio

If you liked the short stories plot in The Mysteries of the Joy Rio by Tennessee Williams , here is a list of 22 books like this:

Cover of The Signalman by Charles Dickens, Scott Cohn

1. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Hallow! Below there!"

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

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2. Casa tomada [Cuento]

By: Julio Cortázar , Juan Fresan

3.95

Format: 5 pages, ebook

Cuento "Casa tomada" de Julio Cortázar, originalmente incluido en el libro Bestiario en 1951. read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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3. The Tattooer

By: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

3.63

Format: 353 pages,

The Tattooer is the first publish work by Junichiro Tanizaki, one of the major authors in the moder… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe

4. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

By: Edgar Allan Poe

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of La Mujer Alta / The Tall Woman - Bilingual Spanish-English Edition / Edición bilingüe español-inglés by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Tatiana Zelenska, Igor Kogan, None

5. La Mujer Alta / The Tall Woman - Bilingual Spanish-English Edition / Edición bilingüe español-inglés

By: Pedro Antonio de Alarcón , Tatiana Zelenska , Igor Kogan , None

3.00

Format: 144 pages,

Read the short story by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon as an enhanced dual language ebook. Tap on the und… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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6. A School Story

By: M.R. James

4.60

Format: None pages, ebook

read more

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  • fiction
  • supernatural
  • short stories

7. The Garden Party

By: Katherine Mansfield

3.62

Format: None pages, ebook

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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8. The Playground

By: Ray Bradbury

3.78

Format: 584 pages,

"The Playground" was part of the first hardcover edition of Ray Bradbury's legendary work Fahrenhei… read more

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9. Máscaras venecianas / La sierva ajena

By: Adolfo Bioy Casares

4.75

Format: 2112 pages,

La impecable construccion de sus relatos es, quiza, la caracteristica que con mayor frecuencia ha d… read more

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10. Laura

By: Saki

4.75

Format: 2112 pages,

A famous short story read more

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11. How Love Came to Professor Guildea

By: None

3.48

Format: 241 pages,

Robert Smythe Hichens (1864-1950) was an English journalist and novelist. He wrote lyrics for music… read more

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12. Enoch Soames

By: Max Beerbohm

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

It occurs to you that he was a fool? It didn't to me. I was young, and had not the clarity of judgm… read more

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13. The Wish House and Other Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling , Craig Raine

2.00

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

Rudyard Kipling, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907, has long been considered an impor… read more

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14. Pomegranate Seed

By: Edith Wharton

3.81

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. Sh… read more

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15. The Monkey's Paw

By: W.W. Jacobs

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

When the White family comes into the possession of a monkey’s paw that magically grant wishes, they… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"But the days passed, and expectations gave way to resignation—the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled apathy."

-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw

"Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly."

-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw

16. The Sick Gentleman's Last Visit

By: Giovanni Papini

3.94

Format: None pages, ebook

"– I am but a figure in a dream." read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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17. Frritt-Flacc

By: Jules Verne

3.30

Format: None pages, None

Frritt-Flacc est une nouvelle fantastique de Jules Verne. read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Lord Mountdrago by W. Somerset Maugham

18. Lord Mountdrago

By: W. Somerset Maugham

3.66

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Book by Maugham, W. Somerset read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

19. Death and the Gardener

By: Jean Cocteau

3.57

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

20. A Scent of Mimosa

By: Francis King

3.76

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

21. Importance

By: Manuel Mujica Lainez

3.88

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Mysteries of the Joy Rio by Tennessee Williams

22. The Mysteries of the Joy Rio

By: Tennessee Williams

3.44

Format: None pages, None

"Sometimes you will find it and other times you won’t find it and the times you don’t find it are t… read more

Similar categories in Tennessee Williams's The Mysteries of the Joy Rio book and Tennessee Williams's The Mysteries of the Joy Rio

  • fiction
  • supernatural
  • short stories
"Clocks and watches he ficed with marvelous delicacy and precision, but he paid no attention to them; he had grown as obliviously accustomed to their many small noises as someone grows to the sound of…"

-Tennessee Williams, The Mysteries of the Joy Rio

"A single watch or clock can be a powerful influence on a man, but when a man lives among as many watches and clocks as crowded the tiny, dim shop of Mr Gonzales, some lagging behind, some skipping ah…"

-Tennessee Williams, The Mysteries of the Joy Rio

23. An Injustice Revealed

By: Anonymous

3.33

Format: None pages, None

“An Injustice Revealed” by Anonymous is a short story from 6th century China. read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of A Little Place off the Edgware Road by Graham Greene

24. A Little Place off the Edgware Road

By: Graham Greene

3.28

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

25. Climax for a ghost story

By: I.A. Ireland

3.60

Format: None pages, None

I. A. Ireland, English savant born in Hanley in 1871. He claimed descent from the infamous impostor… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

26. A Visitor from Down Under

By: L.P. Hartley

2.96

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Smoke Ghost by Fritz Leiber

27. Smoke Ghost

By: Fritz Leiber

3.69

Format: 9 pages, None

When a man keeps on seeing a smoke ghost, he questions his own sanity. read more

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  • short stories

28. Torch Song

By: John Cheever

3.88

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

29. Insomnia

By: Virgilio Piñera

2.28

Format: None pages, None

Virgilio Piñera era un escrito cubano. En el Insomnio es uno de sus mini cuentos. Relata la histori… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Mr. Lupescu by Anthony Boucher

30. Mr. Lupescu

By: Anthony Boucher

2.57

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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31. The Refugee

By: Jane Rice

3.74

Format: 14 pages, None

A playful mix of comedy and the macabre, the story portrays an American woman stuck in France durin… read more

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  • short stories

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