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1. Winter Dreams
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.75
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
"Winter Dreams" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that first appeared in Metropolitan Magazin… read more
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"I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams
"He loved her, and he would love her until the day he was too old for loving--but he could not have her. So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a li…"-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams
"My God, she's good-looking!" said Mr. Sandwood, who was just over thirty. "Good-looking!" cried Mr. Hedrick contemptuously, "she always looks as if she wanted to be kissed! Turning those big cow-eyes…"-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams
"There was a pause. Then she smiled and the corners of her mouth drooped and an almost imperceptible sway brought her closer to him, looking up into his eyes. A lump rose in Dexter's throat, and he wa…"-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams
2. 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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"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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3. 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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4. Araby
By: James Joyce
3.65
Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition
A short story from James Joyce's Dubliners. The unnamed protagonist in "Araby" is a boy who is just… read more
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- classics
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"My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires."-James Joyce, Araby
"What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against the work of school. At night in my bedroo…"-James Joyce, Araby
5. The Black Cat
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.40
Format: 300 pages,
"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more
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6. Smoke Bellew
By: Jack London
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
Christopher Bellew is a success in the eyes of the world, engaged with the San Francisco paper and … read more
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- classics
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7. The Cop And The Anthem
By: O. Henry , Mark Bucci , O'Henry
2.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When all of Soapy's efforts to get himself arrested fail, overhearing a hymn at a nearby church cau… read more
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- classics
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8. Watchbird
By: Robert Sheckley
3.84
Format: None pages,
Strange how often the Millennium has been at hand. The idea is peace on Earth, see, and the way to … read more
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- classics
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9. The Lottery
By: Shirley Jackson
4.05
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more
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- classics
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"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
10. The Mystery of the Yellow Room
By: Gaston Leroux
3.64
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
The young lady had just retired to her room when sounds of a struggle ensue, and cries of "Murder!"… read more
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- classics
- fiction
11. 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
12. Everyday Use
By: Alice Walker , Barbara T. Christian
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Alice Walker's early story, "Everyday Use," has remained a cornerstone of her work. Her use of quil… read more
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13. Brown Wolf
By: Jack London
3.90
Format: 77 pages, Saddle Stitch
While living in sunny California, 'Brown Wolf', the dog-wolf is feeling the call of the wild nature… read more
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14. A Modest Proposal
By: Jonathan Swift
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Paperback
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Thei… read more
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15. Survivor Type
By: Stephen King , Max Miller
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Unknown Binding
Survivor Type is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the 1982 horror anthology Terror… read more
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16. The Veteran
By: Stephen Crane
4.11
Format: 288 pages, ebook
An American Civil War veteran, now a grandfather, reminisces about his experiences in battle. read more
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17. The Monkey's Paw (Oxford Bookworms)
By: W.W. Jacobs , Diane Mowat
3.37
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were dra… read more
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18. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
By: Ambrose Bierce
3.50
Format: 262 pages, ebook
The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his n… read more
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19. Young Goodman Brown
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
Hawthorne's classic tale of a young Puritan's meeting with the Devil. read more
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20. My Oedipus Complex
By: Frank O'Connor
3.79
Format: 477 pages,
A child's jealousy of his place in his mother's life erupts when his father comes home from the war… read more
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21. The End of Eternity
By: Isaac Asimov
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a man whose job it is to range through past and present Centuries, mon… read more
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22. The Veldt
By: Ray Bradbury , Gary Kelley
5.00
Format: 32 pages,
The advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants. read more
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23. The Last Question
By: Isaac Asimov , Bob E. Flick , None
3.78
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when human… read more
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24. 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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25. Quitters, Inc
By: Stephen King , Eric Roberts
4.17
Format: 267 pages, ebook
Read by Eric Roberts. Dick Morrison's life has become a nightmare of addictions, filling his days w… read more
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26. Snow, Glass, Apples
By: Neil Gaiman
4.07
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and C… read more
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"I will not scream. I will not give them that satisfaction. They will have my body, but my soul and my story are my own, and will die with me."-Neil Gaiman, Snow, Glass, Apples
"Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is what she has made of my life."-Neil Gaiman, Snow, Glass, Apples
27. All Summer in a Day
By: Ray Bradbury
4.00
Format: 4 pages, ebook
Margot is a nine-year-old girl whose family moved from Earth to Venus when she was four. She rememb… read more
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"I think the sun is a flower. That blooms for just one hour."-Ray Bradbury, All Summer in a Day
"It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days..."-Ray Bradbury, All Summer in a Day
"Sabía que creían recordar un calor, un ardor en las mejillas, en el cuerpo, en los brazos y las piernas, en las manos temblorosas. Pero luego despertaban siempre al tamborileo trepidante, al intermin…"-Ray Bradbury, All Summer in a Day
"It was as if, in the midst of a film concerning an avalanche, a tornado, a hurricane, a volcanic eruption, something had, first, gone wrong with the sound apparatus, thus muffling and finally cutting…"-Ray Bradbury, All Summer in a Day
28. The Jaunt
By: Stephen King
4.18
Format: 25 pages, None
"The Jaunt" is a horror short story by Stephen King first published in The Twilight Zone Magazine i… read more
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30. The Fifth Step
By: Stephen King
4.00
Format: 10 pages, ebook
Stephen's short story will appear in the March 2020 edition of Harper's. About a man who meets an a… read more
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31. The Taste of Watermelon
By: Borden Deal
3.21
Format: 10 pages, ebook
A coming-of-age story about a boy who makes a reckless, irreversible decision, and being accountabl… read more
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