Dorothy and My Grandmother and the Sailors
By: Shirley Jackson
2.69
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1. William Wilson
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.79
Format: 26 pages, ebook
"William Wilson" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839, with a setting inspi… read more
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"Let me call myself, for the present, Willam Wilson"-Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson
"You have conquered, and I yield. Yet henceforward art thou also dead - dead to the world and its hopes. In me didst thou exist - and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly t…"-Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson
"Upon mankind at large the events of very early existence rarely leave in mature age any definite impression. All is gray shadow -- a weak and irregular remembrance -- and indistinct regathering of fe…"-Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson
2. The Premature Burial
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.76
Format: 32 pages,
The Premature Burial is a horror classic written by Edgar Allan Poe. This is a horror short story o… read more
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"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
"There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
"I looked; and the unseen figure, which still grasped me by the wrist, bad caused to be thrown open the graves of all mankind; and from each issued the faint phosphoric radiance of decay; so that I co…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
3. The Tomb
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.51
Format: 46 pages, Kindle Edition
Jervas Dudley was only a child when he found the mausoleum of the Hyde family. The place becomes ve… read more
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"In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a natural doubt of the authenticity of my narrative…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Tomb
4. A Rose for Emily
By: William Faulkner
3.83
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the fami… read more
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"So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the s…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that whic…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
5. 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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"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
6. 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
7. Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise, Part 1 (The Promise, #1)
By: Gene Luen Yang , Gurihiru , Michael Dante DiMartino , Bryan Konietzko
4.30
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
The war is over...but the adventure has just begun! Picking up exactly where Avatar: The Last Ai… read more
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8. 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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9. 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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10. Yesterday
By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel
3.59
Format: None pages, ebook
A short story by Haruki Murakami, published in The New Yorker magazine. read more
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11. Tortilla Flat
By: John Steinbeck
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Steinbeck is an artist; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a ge… read more
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12. 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
13. The Red Pony
By: John Steinbeck
3.48
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
Young Jody Tiflin lives on his father's California ranch. He is thrilled when his father gives him … read more
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"It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division."-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony
"On the fences the shiny blackbirds with red epaulets clicked their dry call. The meadowlarks sang like water, and the wild doves, concealed among the bursting leaves of the oaks, made a sound of rest…"-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony
"At last he said, "Did you come out of the big mountains?" Gitano shook his head slowly. "No, I walked down the Salinas Valley." The afternoon thought would not let Joey go. "Did you ever go into the …"-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony
"The grandfather was dresses in a black broadcloth suit and he wore kid congress gaiters and a black tie on a short, hard collar. He carried his black slouch hat in his hand. His white beard was cropp…"-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony
14. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
By: Edgar Allan Poe
2.83
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. In… read more
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15. 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
16. 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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17. The Jungle
By: Upton Sinclair , Earl Lee , None , Kathleen De Grave
3.95
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stoc… read more
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18. 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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19. 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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"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
20. The Machine Stops
By: E.M. Forster
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial… read more
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22. 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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23. 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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24. 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
25. 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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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. 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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28. 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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29. When You Find Me
By: P.J. Vernon
3.78
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
Her husband is missing. Visiting her family’s South Carolina estate, socialite Gray Godfrey wake… read more
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30. The House (Mason Falls Mysteries)
By: Raelyn Drake
2.78
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
The old, abandoned house at the end of Grace's street is a local legend. All the neighbors say it's… read more
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31. Dorothy and My Grandmother and the Sailors
By: Shirley Jackson
2.69
Format: None pages, None
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