Subject heading
short story
35 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.
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Related subjects
- Fiction25
- horror25
- American Horror tales16
- Horror stories16
- Short Stories16
- American literature15
- Children's fiction14
- Horror fiction14
- Horror tales14
- catalepsy14
- Cats13
- Gothic fiction13
- first-person narrative13
- gallows13
- self-hatred13
- unreliable narrators13
- Juvenile fiction12
- Premature Burial12
- Classic Literature11
- Crime11
Books
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Twice-Told Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1800
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American Antiquities (1834) Josiah Priest
Victorian Vault
1834
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Commerce Of The Prairies (1849) Josiah Gregg
Victorian Vault
1849
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Incidents Of Travel In Central America, Chiapas, And Yucatan (1841) Stephens
Victorian Vault
1841
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Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (1843) Stephens
Victorian Vault
1843
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Legends Of Mexico (1847) George Lippard
Victorian Vault
1847
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View Of The Hebrews (1823) Ethan Smith
Victorian Vault
1823
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Tales (Black Cat / Colloquy of Monos and Una / Conversation of Eiros and Charmion / Descent Into the Maelström / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Lionizing / Man in the Crowd / Mesmeric Revelation / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Purloined Letter)
Edgar Allan Poe
1845
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Memoirs Of U. S. Grant (1885)
Victorian Vault
1885
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
2001
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Campaign Sketches Of The War With Mexico (1847) William Seaton Henry
Victorian Vault
1847
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The Black Vampyre A Legend of St. Domingo By Uriah Derick D’arcy
Uriah Derick D’ Arcy
1819
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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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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe including the choicest of his critical essays [42 stories, 37 poems, 10 essays]
Edgar Allan Poe
1872
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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
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Mosses from an Old Manse. 1/2
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1846
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The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Edgar Allan Poe
1846French
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Mosses from an Old Manse
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1846
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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
100 Hair Raising Little Horror Stories
Al Sarrantino, Al Sarrantonio, Martin H. Greenberg, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne
1993
Cults!
Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenburg, Frank Harris - undifferentiated, Leonard Kip, Edwin L. Sabin, H. G. Wells, Erle Stanley Gardner, Cornell Woolrich, Edward D. Hoch, Kit Reed, Donald Franson, Stephen King, John Varley, William F. Temple, Katherine MacLean, Martin H. Greenberg
1983
Great Short Stories of the World
Isak Dinesen, Sholem Aleichem, Aldous Huxley, Irwin Shaw, Reader's Digest Association, Truman Capote, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ernest Hemingway, Nigel Balchin, William Somerset Maugham, Santha Rama Rau, Albert Camus, Katherine Anne Porter, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Anatole France, Антон Павлович Чехов, Nadine Gordimer, Bertolt Brecht, Graham Greene, Frank O'Connor, Katherine Mansfield, Corrado Alvaro, Sally Benson, John Updike, Damon Runyon, Pearl S. Buck, Jessamyn West, Shirley Jackson, Alberto Moravia, H. G. Wells, Lilika Nakos, Oscar Wilde, Guy de Maupassat, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Rabindranath Tagore, Rumer Godden, Hernando Tellez, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Benchley, John O'Hara, S. J. Perelman, Machado de Assis, Jean Stafford, Max Aub, Gabrielle Roy, James Thurber, Leo Kennedy, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Crane, Montague Rhodes James, Максим Горький, Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes, Josh Gregory, Doris Lessing, Saki, Wallace Stegner, Marcel Aymé, Colette, Ring Lardner, Paul Horgan, Thomas Head Raddall, O. Henry, Luigi Pirandello, Eudora Welty, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Hjalmar Söderberg, Henry Lawson
1972