9 must-read short stories books like Warning from the Stars by Ron Cocking

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Warning from the Stars

By: Ron Cocking

3.08

Format: 27 pages, Paperback

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1. The Beast in the Cave

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.43

Format: 11 pages, Kindle Edition

a selection from the beginning of the story: The horrible conclusion which had been gradually intru… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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2. The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

By: Agatha Christie

3.85

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great… read more

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"It's dangerous to know too much."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Shades of Pelmanism!’ said Tommy, and relapsed into silence."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

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3. Image of the Gods

By: Alan E. Nourse

4.09

Format: None pages, Audiobook

An Earth colony battles for freedom. read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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4. Greenmantle (Richard Hannay #2)

By: John Buchan

4.09

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

November 1915. Richard Hannay is tasked to undertake a top secret mission to investigate a plot to … read more

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5. Ubik

By: Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto e… read more

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  • science fiction
"Hey,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"One of these days,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in the dentist's office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It's happening. The thing I've been afraid of all my life."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

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6. The Repairman

By: Harry Harrison

3.13

Format: 192 pages, kindle

My boss leaned back, wiped his hands on his handkerchief and gave me Lecture Forty-four on Company … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

7. Warning From The Stars

By: Ron Cocking

3.55

Format: 288 pages,

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8. The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London

3.91

Format: 172 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on Lo… read more

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"The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck"

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

"…and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred."

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

"There is a patience of the wild – dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself."

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

"A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated."

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

9. The 4D Doodler

By: Gregg Margarite , None

4.21

Format: None pages, Audiobook

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10. 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
"[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

11. Wagner the Werewolf

By: David Stuart Davies , George W.M. Reynolds

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

First published in 1847, Wagner the Werewolf is one of the very earliest treatments of the Werewolf… read more

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12. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.29

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Stra… read more

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  • short stories
"There have,"

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

"Where is your warrant?"

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

"I have taken to living by my wits."

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

"Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot."

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

13. Toy Shop

By: Harry Harrison

4.02

Format: 288 pages,

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14. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

By: Lewis Carroll , John Tenniel , Peter Glassman

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In 1865, English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, wrote a fantastica… read more

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15. Parallel Lives

By: John Dryden , Plutarch , Arthur Hugh Clough

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Plutarch's Parallel Lives is a series of biographies, arranged in pairs illuminating virtues & vice… read more

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16. Pygmalion's Spectacles

By: Stanley G. Weinbaum

3.68

Format: 336 pages,

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17. Bread Overhead

By: Fritz Leiber

3.94

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

"Bread Overhead" is a story Fritz Leiber could have written to send up today's bewildering bread ai… read more

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18. The Souls of Black Folk

By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more

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19. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Chris Riddell's brilliant new full-colour illustrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in a sumptuo… read more

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"it's only a dream"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"How long is forever? Sometimes just one second"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"Sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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20. Mr. Standfast

By: John Buchan

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In this nail-biting adventure story, Hannay must outwit a foe far more intelligent than himself; mu… read more

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"You find hate more among journalists and politicians at home than among fighting men."

-John Buchan, Mr. Standfast

"He had just the same narrow head, and stubborn mouth, and honest, quick-tempered eyes. It is the type that makes dashing regimental officers, and earns V.C.’s, and gets done in wholesale. I was never…"

-John Buchan, Mr. Standfast

"A man’s courage is like a horse that refuses a fence; you have got to take him by the head and cram him at it again. If you don’t, he will funk worse next time. I hadn’t enough courage to be able to …"

-John Buchan, Mr. Standfast

"What’s dooty, if you won’t carry it to the other side of Hell? What’s the use of yapping about your country if you’re going to keep something back when she calls for it? What’s the good of meaning to…"

-John Buchan, Mr. Standfast

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21. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.89

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more

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  • short stories
"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

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22. Nightbitch

By: Rachel Yoder

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else... A… read more

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"In such moments, she could almost touch her loneliness, as if it were her second child."

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"Her secrets were the only things these days that were purely hers, things apart from mother and wife and middle-aged woman."

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"Yes, certainly, her emerging rage was in part a by-product of physiological processes, but how could you not be pissed after having a baby?"

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"It had been so long since she had remembered all this, so long since she'd even thought of it, for there had been a great forgetting when she left home--a purposeful forgetting, because to forget her…"

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

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23. MARTIAN V. F. W.

By: G.L. Vandenburg

2.88

Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition

MARTIAN V. F. W. By G. L. VANDENBURG There's nothing like a parade, I always say. Of course, I'm a … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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24. One-Shot

By: James Blish

2.78

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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25. Le Horla : Le Horla - Amour - Le trou - Sauvée - Clochette - Le marquis de Fumerol - Le signe - Le diable - Les Rois - Au bois - Une famille - Joseph - L'auberge - Le vagabond

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.81

Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition

Ce livre est une oeuvre du domaine public éditée au format numérique par Ebooks libres et gratuits.… read more

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  • short stories

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