A Diagnosis of Death
By: Ambrose Bierce
3.23
Format: 4 pages, ebook
A man explains to his doctor how he came to believe in ghosts.
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1. Crash
By: J.G. Ballard
3.59
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more
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"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"-J.G. Ballard, Crash
2. Naked Lunch
By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz
3.46
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more
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- fiction
- american
"Exterminate all rational thought"-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
3. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
By: Pablo Neruda , W.S. Merwin , Cristina García
4.21
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown p… read more
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- classics
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"Tonight I Can Write"-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
"I remembered you with my soul clenched"-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
"I want to fill my mouth with your name."-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
"Every day you play with the light of the universe."-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
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4. Casa tomada [Cuento]
By: Julio Cortázar , Juan Fresan
3.95
Format: 5 pages, ebook
Cuento "Casa tomada" de Julio Cortázar, originalmente incluido en el libro Bestiario en 1951. read more
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5. 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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6. 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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"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
7. The Little Mermaid
By: Hans Christian Andersen , Anthea Bell , Lisbeth Zwerger
3.98
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
From Book Synopsis: Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 language… read more
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"But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more."-Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
"...and she put a wreath of white lilies round her hair, but every petal of the flowers was half a pearl;"-Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
"Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater."-Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
"At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man."-Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
8. 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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- mystery
"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
9. 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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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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- mystery
"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
11. The Los Amigos Fiasco
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.61
Format: 523 pages, Paperback
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer … read more
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12. 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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13. 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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14. The Horror at Red Hook
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Circles and pentagrams loomed on every hand, and told indubitably of the strange beliefs and aspira… read more
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15. The Last Leaf
By: O. Henry , None , Walter Pauk , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sue and Johnsy are two girlfriends who live together in New York City. When Johnsy becomes sick one… read more
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16. 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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17. The Mezzotint
By: M.R. James
5.00
Format: 646 pages,
This short story of the supernatural was originally published in 1904. It concerns a university don… read more
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18. The Purloined Letter
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.00
Format: 468 pages, Library Binding
The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his t… read more
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19. 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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20. Carmilla
By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
3.86
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more
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"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
21. Dracula's Guest
By: Bram Stoker
4.36
Format: 39 pages,
A passage from the manuscript of Dracula. read more
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22. The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
By: H.P. Lovecraft , August Derleth
3.95
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
WARNING! YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER A NEW DIMENSION OF UTMOST TERROR When you open this book you wil… read more
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- horror
"Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blackness told o…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
"And beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of sheer darkness, where solid and semi-solid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
23. The Beast with Five Fingers
By: W.F. Harvey , None
4.00
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. ' ...the hand was writhing in agonized contortions, sq… read more
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24. The Screaming Skull
By: F. Marion Crawford
4.27
Format: 197 pages,
A screaming skull haunts the house in which it is closeted in a sealed hatbox. read more
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25. The Judge's House
By: Bram Stoker
3.00
Format: None pages,
A scholar takes up residence in the former home of a judge with a very evil reputation. He finds th… read more
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26. 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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"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
27. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.82
Format: 38 pages, Paperback
".. Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in "Graham's Magazine" in 1841.… read more
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- fiction
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- mystery
"The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
"I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere self is the theme."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
"There are very few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
"You will say, no doubt, using the language of the law, that 'to make out my case,' I should rather undervalue, than insist upon a full estimation of the activity required in this matter. This may be …"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
28. The Ash-Tree
By: M.R. James
3.94
Format: 229 pages, ebook
Montague Rhodes James OM, MA, FBA (1 August 1862 - 12 June 1936), who used the publication name M. … read more
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29. 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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"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
30. The Brown Hand
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.49
Format: None pages, None
Every one knows that Sir Dominick Holden, the famous Indian surgeon, made me his heir, and that his… read more
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31. A Diagnosis of Death
By: Ambrose Bierce
3.23
Format: 4 pages, ebook
A man explains to his doctor how he came to believe in ghosts. read more
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