17 best-selling short stories books like Come Dance with Me in Ireland by Shirley Jackson

Come Dance with Me in Ireland

By: Shirley Jackson

2.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A short story about a shoestring peddler who shows up at the door of a young woman and her two visi…

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1. Wylding Hall

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.80

Format: 176 pages, ebook

When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their u… read more

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"But mostly I'm just respectful of old ways. I believe things for a reason, and in the old days they did things for a reason. And if you don't understand why—well, you might end up opening a few doors…"

-Elizabeth Hand, Wylding Hall

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2. The Yellow Wall-Paper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendenc… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
"Its time we woke up,"

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"This was not life, this was a nightmare."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

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3. The Masque of the Red Death

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

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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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  • 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

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5. Mile 81

By: Stephen King

4.31

Format: 110 pages, ebook

At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded up rest stop on a highway in Maine. It's a place wher… read more

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  • short stories
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6. The Musgrave Ritual (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, #5)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.12

Format: None pages,

Holmes recounts to Watson the events arising after a visit from a university acquaintance, Reginald… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
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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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  • classics
  • short stories
"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

8. Harrison Bergeron

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.93

Format: None pages, ebook

It is the year 2081. Because of Amendments 211, 212, and 213 to the Constitution, every American is… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
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9. A Hunger Artist

By: Franz Kafka , Kevin Blahut , None , Helen Vlcnovska

3.74

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The last book published during Kafka's lifetime, A Hunger Artist(1924) explores many of the themes … read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
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10. The Tell-Tale Heart

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None

4.24

Format: 31 pages, Library Binding

A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
"would a madman have been so wise as this?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

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11. The Red Headed League (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #2)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.54

Format: None pages, Audio Cassette

In The Redheaded League, Holmes is engaged upon two seemingly unrelated cases, a daring bank robber… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
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12. Un escándalo en Bohemia

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.00

Format: 10 pages, ebook

Escandalo en Bohemia es el primero de los 56 relatos cortos sobre Sherlock Holmes escrito por Arthu… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories

13. Autopsy Room Four

By: Stephen King

4.16

Format: 208 pages,

"Autopsy Room Four" is a short story by Stephen King. It was first published in King's limited-edit… read more

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14. Ex Oblivione

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.93

Format: 592 pages, Kindle Edition

"Ex Oblivione" is a prose poem by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1… read more

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15. In the Penal Colony

By: Sadegh Hedayat , Franz Kafka , Hasan Ghaemian

3.92

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, and first … read more

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16. Low Men In Yellow Coats

By: Stephen King

3.34

Format: None pages,

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17. 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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  • classics
  • short stories
"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

18. Demigods & Magicians: Percy and Annabeth Meet the Kanes

By: Rick Riordan

3.60

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Magic, monsters, and mayhem abound when Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase meet Carter and Sadie Kane… read more

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19. A Case of Identity (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #3)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Edward Raleigh

3.76

Format: None pages, Audio

Who is the wealthy Miss Mary Sutherland? More importantly, does she share a connection to the disap… read more

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20. 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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  • classics
  • short stories
"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

21. Sherlock Holmes : Tragedi kapal Gloria Scott

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.88

Format: 192 pages,

The Adventure of the 'Gloria Scott' The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes #4), Arthur Conan Doyle `nwn: mr… read more

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22. 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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23. The Kane Chronicles Survival Guide

By: Rick Riordan

3.67

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

Fans of The Kane Chronicles series will adore this gorgeous primer on the people, places, gods, and… read more

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24. 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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  • classics
  • short stories
"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

25. The Dead Zone

By: Stephen King

4.17

Format: 267 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE] -  Johnny, the small boy who skated at br… read more

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26. Suki, Alone (Avatar: The Last Airbender, #0.6)

By: Faith Erin Hicks

4.20

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Even a Kyoshi Warrior can find herself in trouble. Suki is captured by the Fire Nation and broug… read more

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27. Trapdoor

By: J.P. Pomare

3.63

Format: 6 pages, Audiobook

Live streaming now! Trapdoor - Five go in, none come out. Eva Kavinsky wakes in a dark cellar, w… read more

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28. Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1)

By: Nathan W. Pyle

4.33

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Straight from the mind of New York Times bestselling author Nathan W. Pyle comes an adorable and pr… read more

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"Where is your pain? In my emotions. I don't understand. No one ever does."

-Nathan W. Pyle, Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1)

Cover of Brooklyn House Magician's Manual: Your Guide to Egyptian Gods & Creatures, Glyphs & Spells, and More (The Kane Chronicles) by Rick Riordan

29. Brooklyn House Magician's Manual: Your Guide to Egyptian Gods & Creatures, Glyphs & Spells, and More (The Kane Chronicles)

By: Rick Riordan

3.98

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

Greetings, initiate! Carter Kane, here. Congratulations on reaching Brooklyn House in one piece. Th… read more

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  • short stories
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30. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

By: Sylvia Plath

3.98

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
"«Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»"

-Sylvia Plath, Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

31. Come Dance with Me in Ireland

By: Shirley Jackson

2.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A short story about a shoestring peddler who shows up at the door of a young woman and her two visi… read more

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  • short stories

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

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4.06

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Kate Chopin

4.07

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4.12

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3.40

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Roald Dahl

3.84

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William Hope Hodgson

3.47

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