The House of Asterion
By: Jorge Luis Borges
4.50
Format: 2 pages, None
One of Borges's shortest stories, The House of Asterion was written over a period of two days. The …
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1. The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
By: Arthur Machen
3.69
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
"I will not read it; I should never sleep again" A doctor performs an experiment on a young wom… read more
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- classics
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"There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist."-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and …"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all, when suddenly, in …"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneat…"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
2. The Fall of the House of Usher
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Robert Lanier
4.17
Format: 251 pages,
The story begins with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, hav… read more
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- fiction
- classics
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3. They're Made Out of Meat
By: Terry Bisson
3.70
Format: None pages, ebook
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1991. read more
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- short stories
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4. The Story of an Hour
By: Kate Chopin
4.07
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more
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- literature
- fiction
- classics
- short stories
"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
5. A Worn Path
By: Eudora Welty
3.50
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
Phoenix Jackson, an old woman, is on a dangerous journey through the woods to get medicine for her … read more
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6. The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
By: Steven Sherrill
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
Five thousand years out of the Labyrinth, the Minotaur finds himself in the American South, living … read more
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7. The Interlopers (Tale Blazers)
By: Saki
3.63
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
Two men, Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym, are both in a forested area on the Carpathian Mounta… read more
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8. Wolf Children: Ame & Yuki
By: Mamoru Hosoda , Yuu
4.50
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
When Hana falls in love with a young interloper she encounters in her college class, the last thing… read more
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9. Happy Endings
By: Margaret Atwood
4.12
Format: 440 pages, ebook
Atwood's short story includes six different stories, labeled A to F, which each quickly summarize t… read more
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10. El ahogado más hermoso del mundo
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.00
Format: 468 pages,
Cuento de Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Acompanado por fotografias de Hernan Diaz. read more
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11. Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Carme Solé Vendrell
3.54
Format: None pages,
"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" is a short story that begins with a couple, Pelayo and Elisend… read more
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12. Hell is the Absence of God
By: Ted Chiang
2.96
Format: 7 pages, Podcast
In a world much like our own, the existence of Heaven and Hell are objectively proven. Indeed, the … read more
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13. Girl
By: Jamaica Kincaid
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
Girlwas originally published in the June 26, 1978 issue of The New Yorkerand subsequently included … read more
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14. There Will Come Soft Rains
By: Ray Bradbury
4.07
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
First published in Collier's, May 6, 1950. The story concerns a household in Allendale, California,… read more
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15. Pale Horse, Pale Rider
By: Katherine Anne Porter
3.96
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
First published in 1939, these three short novels secured the author's reputation as a master of sh… read more
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16. The Necklace
By: Guy de Maupassant , Gary Kelley
3.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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17. Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies
By: John Langan
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A family’s Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man’… read more
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18. Los nueve mil millones de nombres de Dios
By: Arthur C. Clarke
3.76
Format: 21 pages, None
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19. And of Clay Are We Created
By: Isabel Allende
4.15
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
This selection is fictional, but it is based on a real event. In 1985, a volcano erupted in Colombi… read more
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20. The House of Asterion
By: Jorge Luis Borges
4.50
Format: 2 pages, None
One of Borges's shortest stories, The House of Asterion was written over a period of two days. The … read more
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- 20th century
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21. You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation
By: Sarah Urist Green
4.11
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
A few years ago curator Sarah Urist Green left her office in the basement of an art museum to trave… read more
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"My brave and loving children, Henry and Alice, who rightfully resist my art direction and make much cooler things on their own."-Sarah Urist Green, You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation
