Welcome to the book series 7 best short stories specials, selection dedicated to a special subject, featuring works by noteworthy authors. The texts were chosen based on their relevance, renown and interest. This edition is dedicated to Horror. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing". Horror intends to create an eerie and frightening atmosphere for the reader. Horror is often divided into the psychological horror and supernatural horror sub-genres. Often the central menace of a work of horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for the larger fears of a society.This book contains the following texts: - The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards; - Afterward by Edith Wharton; - The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe; - The Monkeys Paw by W. W. Jacobs; - The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens; - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving; - The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft.For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
The Rats in the Walls
H. P. Lovecraft
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90 Masterpieces You Must Read (Vol.1) : Novels, Poetry, Plays, Short Stories, Essays, Psychology & Philosophy: The Madman, Moby-Dick, Siddhartha, Crime and Punishment, Hamlet, Great Expectations, Little Women, Meditations, The Einstein Theory, Heart of Darkness, The Red Badge of Courage
Walt Whitman, Herman Hesse, George Eliot, Kahlil Gibran, Anton Chekhov, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, James Joyce, Henry David Thoreau, William Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, John Keats, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Scott, Daniel Defoe, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Leo Tolstoy, Benito Pérez Galdós, William Makepeace Thackeray, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, R.D. Blackmore, Alexandre Dumas, Marcel Proust, D. H. Lawrence, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Princess Der Ling, Victor Hugo, Juan Valera, Anthony Trollope, Stephen Crane, E. M. Forster, Theodore Dreiser, Margaret Cavendish, Upton Sinclair, Plato, Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius, Sun Tzu, Voltaire, Miguel de Cervantes, Giovanni Boccaccio, Frederick Douglass, Sigmund Freud, H. A. Lorentz, Wallace D. Wattles, James Allen, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, H. P. Lovecraft, Washington Irving, Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, L. Frank Baum, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Selma Lagerlöf, Jack London, Jules Verne, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw, Soseki Natsume, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen
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Hypnos : Horrorgeschichte
H. P. Lovecraft
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Dagon
H. P. Lovecraft
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Das Bild im Haus
H. P. Lovecraft
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Die Gruft
H. P. Lovecraft
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The Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
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The Greatest Writers of All Time: Series 3 : Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Alexandre Dumas, Bram Stoker, Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frances Burney, Émile Zola, Anthony Trollope, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Alexandre Dumas, Walter Scott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anthony Trollope, Frances Burney, Émile Zola
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Der Schatten über Innsmouth
H. P. Lovecraft, Sebastian Jackel
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Stadt ohne Namen
H. P. Lovecraft
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Die Musik des Erich Zann
H. P. Lovecraft, Sebastian Jackel
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Die Katzen von Ulthar
H. P. Lovecraft, Sebastian Jackel
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7 best short stories - Boxing
Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Robert E. Howard, Ring Lardner, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Ghost Stories
Sheridan Le Fanu, Saki (H.H. Munro), Elizabeth Gaskell, M. R. James, Lafcadio Hearn, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Russian Authors
Leo Tolstoy, Leonid Andreyev, Maxim Gorky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Halloween
W. W. Jacobs, M. R. James, Lafcadio Hearn, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Leonid Andreyev, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Christmas
Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Henry van Dyke, Stephen Leacock, Leo Tolstoy, O. Henry, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Morality Tales
Stephen Leacock, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Kate Chopin, Guy de Maupassant, Matsuo Bashō, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Thanksgiving Day
Louisa May Alcott, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, William Dean Howells, O. Henry, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Francis K. Ball, Edward Payson Roe, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - American Civil War
Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Kate Chopin, Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Thomas Nelson Page, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - World War I
Rudyard Kipling, Katherine Mansfield, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Arthur Conan Doyle, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Feminist Fiction
August Nemo, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Edith Nesbit
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7 best short stories - Feel-Good Stories
George Ade, H. G. Wells, Anton Chekhov, T. S. Arthur, Oscar Wilde, O. Henry, Nathaniel Hawthorne, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Victorian Romance
William Schwenck Gilbert, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, George Moore, August Nemo
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