16 best-selling short stories books like The Test by Theodore Thomas

The Test

By: Theodore Thomas

3.48

Format: None pages, None

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Cover of Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe, Gilles Tibo

1. Annabel Lee

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Gilles Tibo

4.32

Format: 24 pages,

"Annabel Lee" is the last complete poem composed by American author Edgar Allan Poe. Like many of P… read more

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"I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee—"

-Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee

"For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but i feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee."

-Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee

"But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we— Of many far wiser than we— And neither the angels in Heaven above Nor the demons down under the sea Can ever disseve…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee

"But our love was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we Of many far wiser than we And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever m…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee

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2. The Pedestrian: A Fantasy in One Act

By: Ray Bradbury

3.77

Format: 22 pages, Paperback

A short story by Ray Bradbury, the prequel to "Fahrenheit 451". First published in The Reporter, Au… read more

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"Business or profession?' 'I guess you'd call me a writer.' No profession,' said the police car, as if talking to itself. The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest."

-Ray Bradbury, The Pedestrian: A Fantasy in One Act

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3. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.37

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more

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"Would you walk away from Omelas?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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4. The Egg

By: Andy Weir

3.41

Format: None pages, ebook

A short story about the universe. read more

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Cover of A Clean Well Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway

5. A Clean Well Lighted Place

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway, first published… read more

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6. 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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Cover of The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe

7. 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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"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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8. The Postman Always Rings Twice

By: James M. Cain

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston and the inspiration for Camus's Th… read more

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9. The Killers

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.57

Format: 384 pages,

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Cover of Hansel and Gretel by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

10. Hansel and Gretel

By: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm

3.50

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

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11. Count Magnus

By: M.R. James

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

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12. The Birds

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.89

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

"The birds kept coming at him from the air, silent save for the beating wings. The terrible, flutte… read more

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13. Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)

By: Jerome K. Jerome

4.60

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a j… read more

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14. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.02

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It begins with a man walking St. Petersburg's … read more

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"I want to suffer so that I may love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

"How anxiously I yearned for those I had forsake"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

"how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

"أصبحت فجأة لا أغضب من الناس، بل ما عدت ألاحظ وجودهم."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

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15. The Most Dangerous Game

By: Richard Connell

3.94

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The Most Dangerous Game features a big-game hunter from New York who becomes shipwrecked on an isol… read more

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"But you can’t mean—"

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

"The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees."

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

"Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have."

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

16. The Sniper

By: Liam O'Flaherty

4.33

Format: 300 pages,

A trained sniper doing his job during the Irish Civil War faces a shocking turn of events, after ki… read more

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17. The Necklace

By: Guy de Maupassant , Gary Kelley

3.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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18. 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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"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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19. Hills Like White Elephants

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.85

Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition

A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more

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20. The Test

By: Theodore Thomas

3.48

Format: None pages, None

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21. He-y, come on ou-t!

By: Shinichi Hoshi

4.08

Format: None pages, ebook

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Frank R. Stockton

3.94

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Roald Dahl

3.84

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Shirley Jackson

4.05

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.93

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