Subject heading
American Short stories
26 books carry this heading. It is a source-library term, kept as recorded; related traditions and headings below are drawn from co-occurrence, not editorial judgment.
Related traditions
- Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends20
- Ancient religions, animism, and ritual7
- Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis4
- Legendary beings and transformations2
- Occultism and esotericism1
- Witchcraft and folk magic1
- Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists1
- Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences1
Related subjects
- Fiction21
- American Horror tales16
- Short Stories15
- American fiction14
- horror14
- Horror tales13
- Juvenile fiction13
- American literature12
- Children's fiction12
- Fear11
- Horror stories11
- Classic Literature10
- Horror fiction10
- Spanish Inquisition10
- pendulums10
- Crime9
- Gothic fiction9
- catalepsy9
- first-person narrative9
- short story9
Books
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Nights with Uncle Remus
Joel Chandler Harris, Milo Winter
1883
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The pot of gold,and other stories
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
1892
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Twice-Told Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1800
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The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers, Robert Robert William Chambers
1895
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Tanglewood Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Virginia Frances Sterrett
1853
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In the Midst of Life. Tales of Civilians
Ambrose Bierce
1891
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The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe in Four Volumes - I - Tales
Edgar Allan Poe
1857
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Vol. I
Edgar Allan Poe, John H. Ingram
1874
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Vol. II (Assignation / Balloon-Hoax / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Imp of the Perverse / Island of the Fay / Masque of the Red Death / Mesmeric Revelation / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart / Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade / Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall / Von Kempelen and His Discovery)
Edgar Allan Poe
1884
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Short Stories (Black Cat / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter)
Edgar Allan Poe
1845
Nightmare Hour - Time for Terror
Robert Lawrence Stine
1999
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The Shape of Fear, and Other Ghostly Tales
Elia Wilkinson Peattie
1898
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Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires (Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Colloquy of Monos and Una / Conversation of Eiros and Charmi / Devil in the Belfry / Fall of the House of Usher / Four Beasts in One / Hop-Frog / Imp of the Perverse / Island of the Fay / King Pest / Lionizing / Man of the Crowd / Masque of the Red Death / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Power of Words / Shadow / Silence / Some Words with a Mummy / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire
1857French
Full Dark, No Stars
Stephen King
2010
Mojo
Nalo Hopkinson
2003
Scary!
Peter Haining, Robert Lawrence Stine, Jerome Bixby, Richard Matheson, William F. Nolan, Leon Garfield, Isaac Asimov, Zenna Henderson, Roald Dahl, Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, Joan Aiken, Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Bloch
1998
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Stephen King
2015
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Ten Volumes - Volume I - Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque I
Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Clarence Stedman, George Edward Woodbury
1894
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Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires (Angel of the Odd / Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Colloquy of Monos and Una / Conversation of Eiros and Charmi / Devil in the Belfry / Domain of Arnheim / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Four Beasts in One / Hop-frog / Imp of the Perverse / Island of the Fay / King Pest / Landor's Cottage / Lionizing / Maelzel's Chess Player / Man of the Crowd / Masque of the Red Death / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Power of Words / Shadow / Silence / Some Words with a Mummy / System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether / Tale of Jerusalem / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
1884French
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Unbegreifliche Ereignisse und geheimnißvolle Thaten (Assignation / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Devil in the Belfry / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Man of the Crowd / Morella / Mystery of Marie Roget / Oblong Box / Pit and the Pendulum / Spectacles / Sphinx / Tale of the Ragged Mountains / Tell-Tale Heart / Thou Art the Man / Three Sundays in a Week / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
1861German
Kit Kelvin's kernels
Kit Kelvin
1860
Ole Rabbit's plantation stories
Mary Alicia Owen
1898
Boys' book of adventures
E. T. Roe
1891
Little folks east and west
Harriette R. Shattuck
1892