19 Top short stories books like Staley Fleming's Hallucination by Ambrose Bierce

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Staley Fleming's Hallucination

By: Ambrose Bierce

3.10

Format: 3 pages, Kindle Edition

Stacey Fleming has the odd premonition that he will be bitten to death by a big black Newfoundland …

"When the man was dead an examination disclosed the unmistakable marks of an animal’s fangs deeply sunken into the jugular vein. But there was no animal."

-Ambrose Bierce, Staley Fleming's Hallucination

"When the man was dead an examination disclosed the unmistakable marks of an animal’s fangs deeply sunken into the jugular vein. But there was no animal."

-Ambrose Bierce, Staley Fleming's Hallucination

If you liked the short stories plot in Staley Fleming's Hallucination by Ambrose Bierce , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. The Lover

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more

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"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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2. The White Ship

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.43

Format: 10 pages, Paperback

"The White Ship" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft. It was first published in The United A… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"Far from the shore stands the grey lighthouse, above sunken slimy rocks that are seen when the tide is low, but unseen when the tide is high. Past that beacon for a century have swept the majestic ba…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The White Ship

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3. 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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  • horror
  • short stories
  • ghosts
"Hallow! Below there!"

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

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4. 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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  • short stories
  • horror
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5. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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6. 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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  • short stories
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7. The Terrible Old Man

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

"The Terrible Old Man" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written on January 28, 1920, and first … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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8. The Nose

By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more

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  • short stories
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9. History of the Necronomicon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

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  • short stories
  • horror
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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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  • short stories
  • horror
"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. Hop Frog

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Don Kisner , None

3.66

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Hop-Frog and his friend Trippetta have been captured by one of the king's generals and brought back… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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12. Diary of a Superfluous Man

By: Ivan Turgenev , David A. Patterson

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Turgenev published Diary of a Superfluous Manin 1850, he created one of the first literary por… read more

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  • short stories
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13. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • short stories
  • horror
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14. The Kidnapped Prime Minister: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

3.71

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Just as World War I is drawing to an end, the prime minister is kidnapped. It is down to Hercule Po… read more

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  • short stories
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15. La furia

By: Silvina Ocampo

3.29

Format: 80 pages,

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  • short stories
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16. The Selfish Giant

By: Oscar Wilde , S. Saelig Gallagher

3.54

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This magnificent new edition of Oscar Wilde's beloved tale tells the story of the selfish giant who… read more

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  • short stories

17. 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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18. The Sphinx Without a Secret

By: Oscar Wilde

3.67

Format: 117 pages, ebook

The Sphinx Without A Secret is a short story which centres around two college friends, who, after n… read more

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19. The Cats of Ulthar

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.81

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

"The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnam… read more

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20. Sketches from a Hunter's Album

By: Ivan Turgenev , Richard Freeborn

3.50

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdot… read more

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21. The Rats in the Walls

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. Written in August-September 1923, it wa… read more

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22. 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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  • short stories
  • horror
"[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

23. 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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24. The Cask of Amontillado

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.08

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"For the love of God, Montresor!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

25. The Magic Shop

By: H.G. Wells , François Roca

4.00

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Out for a walk in London one day, Gip and his father happen upon a magic shop. At Gip's urging, the… read more

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26. The Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more

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27. The History of the Devil As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts

By: Daniel Defoe

3.92

Format: 32 pages,

First published in 1726, this full-length study of the devil's role in society combines Biblical hi… read more

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28. The Very Old Folk

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.34

Format: None pages, ebook

H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in th… read more

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29. Number 13

By: M.R. James

3.59

Format: None pages, ebook

M. R. James was born in Kent, England in 1862. James came to writing fiction relatively late, not p… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of Staley Fleming's Hallucination by Ambrose Bierce

30. Staley Fleming's Hallucination

By: Ambrose Bierce

3.10

Format: 3 pages, Kindle Edition

Stacey Fleming has the odd premonition that he will be bitten to death by a big black Newfoundland … read more

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  • horror
  • short stories
  • ghosts
"When the man was dead an examination disclosed the unmistakable marks of an animal’s fangs deeply sunken into the jugular vein. But there was no animal."

-Ambrose Bierce, Staley Fleming's Hallucination

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31. El Joven Rey

By: Oscar Wilde

3.65

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

El éxito de Wilde se basaba en el ingenio punzante y epigramático que derrochaba en sus obras, dedi… read more

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  • short stories

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