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1001 Afternoons in Chicago
Ben Hecht
29 days •
ⓘ 1921 • A collection of sketches of Chicago from Ben Hecht's Chicago Daily News column. "Journalism extraordinary; journalism that invaded the realm of literature."
After Dark
Wilkie Collins
41 days •
ⓘ 1856 • A collection of six exciting short stories, as told to poor traveling portrait-painter William Kerby.
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar
Maurice Leblanc
18 days •
ⓘ 1907 • A collection of stories featuring France's legendary thief and master of disguise Arsène Lupin.
The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories
Gertrude Atherton
20 days •
ⓘ 1905 • A collection of Atherton's stories including The Dead and the Countess, Death and the Woman, and the "far too gruesome" story The Striding Place.
Cane
Jean Toomer
17 days •
ⓘ 1923 • A collection of sketches, poems, and stories of black life in the South. A powerful work of the Harlem Renaissance.
The Club of Queer Trades
G.K. Chesterton
21 days •
ⓘ 1905 • A collection of short stories spotlighting remarkable encounters with people earning their livings in extraordinary ways.
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Leo Tolstoy
7 days •
ⓘ 1886 • A powerful man of the world is suddenly and shockingly confronted with his own mortality in this, arguably one of the finest novellas ever written.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
M.R. James
17 days •
ⓘ 1904 • In quiet rural settings, dark and unsettling supernatural forces are at work. A collection of spooky ghost stories.
In the Midst of Life
Ambrose Bierce
26 days •
ⓘ 1892 • A collection of short stories about soliders and civilians during the American Civil War.
Kwaidan
Lafcadio Hearn
11 days •
ⓘ 1904 • A collection of Japanese ghost stories and folk tales, plus a brief study on insects.
Lost Face
Jack London
15 days •
ⓘ 1910 • A collection of short stories including adventures in the Yukon and the Klondike.
Love and Friendship and Other Early Works
Jane Austen
13 days •
ⓘ 1790 • A collection of stories written by Jane Austen from the ages of 11 through 18. Includes the epistolary "Love and Freindship" and "The History of England."
Men Without Women
Ernest Hemingway
13 days •
ⓘ 1927 • A collection of short stories including some of Hemingway's best works: "The Killers", "Hills Like White Elephants", and "In Another Country"
The Most Dangerous Game
Richard Connell
3 days •
ⓘ 1924 • A big-game hunter is shipwrecked onto an isolated Caribbean island where he must survive a barbaric test from his new host.
Tales of Space and Time
H.G. Wells
22 days •
ⓘ 1899 • A collection of fantasy and sci-fi stories including runaway stars, stone age breakthroughs, and a mysterious glowing egg.
Tales of the Jazz Age
F. Scott Fitzgerald
32 days •
ⓘ 1922 • A collection of short stories including May Day, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Tales
Edgar Allan Poe
15 days •
ⓘ 1843 • A collection of stories by Poe including The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, The Premature Burial and more.
Twice-Told Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne
48 days •
ⓘ 1837 • A collection of short stories including "The Haunted Mind," "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," and "The Great Carbuncle."
Visible and Invisible
E.F. Benson
24 days •
ⓘ 1923 • A collection of ghostly supernatural stories from one of the medium's masters.
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