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The complete short stories / by Twain, Mark,1835-1910.;
Includes bibliographical references.Presents a volume of satirical short tales by the literary master that includes such classics as "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," and "The Diary of Adam and Eve."
Subjects: Short stories, American.; Short stories.;
© 2012., Alfred A. Knopf,
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Full dark, no stars / by King, Stephen,1947-;
1922 -- Big driver -- Fair extension -- A good marriage.Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side while he is away on a business trip.
Subjects: Horror tales, American.; Short stories, American.; Horror fiction.; Short stories, American.;
© 2010., Scribner,
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Look at the birdie : unpublished short fiction / by Vonnegut, Kurt.;
Letter from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., to Walter J. Miller, 1951 -- Confido -- FUBAR -- Shout about it from the housetops -- Ed Luby's key club -- A song for Selma -- Hall of mirrors -- The nice little people -- Hello, Red -- Little drops of water -- The petrified ants -- The honor of a newsboy -- Look at the birdie -- King and queen of the universe -- The good explainer.A volume of fourteen early and previously unpublished short works offers insight into the social satirist's developing literary style and includes pieces that explore such themes as innocence, ironic twists of fate, and morality.
Subjects: Short stories, American.;
© 2010, c2009., Dial Press Trade Paperbacks,
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Dare to be scared : thirteen stories to chill and thrill / by San Souci, Robert D.; Ouimet, David,ill.;
Nighttown -- The dark dark house -- The caller -- The double dare -- Space is the place -- Ants -- The Halloween spirit -- The Bald Mountain monster -- Playland -- Smoke -- Mrs. Moonlight (Senora de Luna) -- Hungry ghosts -- Bakotahl.
Subjects: Horror tales, American.; Children's stories, American.; Horror stories.; Short stories.;
© c2003., Cricket Books,
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Bob Seger's house and other stories / by Delp, Michael,book editor.; Liebler, M. L.,book editor.; Baxter, Charles,1947-author of foreword.;
"Bob Seger's House and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by some of Michigan's most well-known fiction writers. This collection of twenty-two short stories serves as a celebration not only of the tenth anniversary of the Made in Michigan Writers Series in 2016 but also of the rich history of writing and storytelling in the region. As series editors Michael Delp and M. L. Leibler state in their preface, "The stories contained in this anthology are a way to stay connected to each other. Think of them as messages sent from all over the map, stitching readers and writers together through stories that continue to honor the ancient art of the fire tale, the hunting epic, and all of the ways language feeds the blood of imagination.""--provided by publisher.Foreword by Charles Baxter -- Preface -- Bob Seger's house / Ellen Airgood -- Among the beasts / John Smolens -- Lay of the land / Janet Kauffman -- The Church of the Fellowship of something / Thisbe Nissen -- The silver saxophone, masks of pain, and the people in the hills / Gordon Henry -- Friend / Laura Kasischke -- The clean, well-lighted afterlife of Ernest Hemingway / Michael Delp -- Not really / Michael Byers -- Prepuce / Thomas Lynch -- Cemetary / Loren D. Estleman -- Walk-on / Gloria Whelan -- Weep no more over this event / Ander Monson -- Card night / Mardi Jo Link -- The warrior / Desiree Cooper -- Chance / Peter Ho Davies -- A history of water / Natalie Bakopoulos -- The shrine / Michael Zadoorian -- That story / Jack Driscoll -- The migration / Matt Bell -- Death of a marriage counselor / Eileen Pollack -- Cretia's gal / Bill Harris -- The tattoo / Bonnie Jo Campbell -- Contributors.
Subjects: Short stories, American;
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Operation squirrel and other Christmas stories : by Sura, Christopher R.,1963- ;
Operation Squirrel -- The last minute gift -- The first knight of Christmas -- Good stuff -- We three thugs -- A Charlie Brown tree.Five Christmas short stories written by high school teacher Chris Sura.
Subjects: Short stories, American.; Christmas,;
© 2011., s.n.,
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The complete stories of Truman Capote / by Capote, Truman,1924-1984.;
The walls are cold -- A mink of one's own -- The shape of things -- Jug of silver -- Miriam -- My side of the matter -- Preacher's legend -- A tree of night -- The headless hawk -- Shut a final door -- Children on their birthdays -- Master misery -- The bargain -- A diamond guitar -- House of flowers -- A Christmas memory -- Among the paths to Eden -- The Thanksgiving visitor -- Mojave -- One Christmas.Presents a collection of short fiction by twentieth-century author Truman Capote and includes "A Tree of Night," "House of Flowers," and "A Christmas Memory."
Subjects: Authors, American; Short stories.;
© 2005., Vintage International,
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Tales of the peculiar / by Riggs, Ransom.; Davidson, Andrew,1958-illustrator.;
"Fictional historian Millard Nullings edits a collection of folk tales and legends known to contain information about the world of the peculiars, as introduced in Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series"--The splendid cannibals -- The fork-tongued princess -- The first Ymbryne -- The woman who befriended ghosts -- Cocobolo -- The pigeons of Saint Paul's -- The girl who could tame nightmares -- The locust -- The boy who could hold back the sea -- The tale of Cuthbert.
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Fairy tales.; Short stories.; Paranormal fiction, American.; Supernatural; Short stories.;
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Sweetwater, storms, and spirits : stories of the Great Lakes / by Brehm, Victoria,1947-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-336)Masters and men: Ralph Emberg-- Out of the trough / Anonymous-- Helmsmen on Lake Erie / Walter Havighurst-- A gold-headed cane / George Vukelich-- THe bosun's chair / St. Elmo's fire: Anonymous-- A Lake Huron ghost story / A North American-- From scenes on Lake Huron / Ojibwa myth collected by William Jones-- Nanabushu swallowed by the sturgeon-- Now great-lynx / Anonymous: collected by Ivan H. Walton-- The snow wasset / C.H.J. Snider-- An anchor in a graveyard / Fisherman: Ojibwa myth collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft-- The origin of the White Fish / James Oliver Curwood-- The fish pirates / George Vukelich-- The Sturgeon / Lighthouses and lockkeepers: Constance Fenimore Woolson-- Ballast Island / Frances Ward Hurlbut-- The fall of the lighthouse / Dean Eltham-- Geraniums / White squall: Menomini story collected by Leonard Bloomfield-- Getting bounty from the English / Norman Reilly Raine-- The deep water mate / Morgan Robertson-- The survival of the fittest / Jay McCormick-- From November storm
Subjects: Short stories, American;
© c1990., University of Michigan Press,
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The portable Edgar Allan Poe / by Poe, Edgar Allan,1809-1849.; Kennedy, J. Gerald.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 623-628).Introduction by J. Gerald Kennedy -- Chronology -- Note on texts -- Tales: Predicaments. MS. found in a bottle ; A descent into the maelström ; The masque of the red death ; The pit and the pendulum ; The premature burial ; The facts in the case of M. Valdemar -- Bereavements. The assignation ; Berenice ; Morella ; Ligeia ; The fall of the House of Usher ; Eleonora ; The oval portrait -- Antagonisms. Metzengerstein ; William Wilson ; The tell-tale heart ; The black cat ; The imp of the perverse ; The cask of Amontillado ; Hop-frog -- Mysteries. The man of the crowd ; The murders in the Rue Morgue ; The gold-bug ; The oblong box ; A tale of the ragged mountains ; The purloined letter -- Grotesqueries. The man that was used up ; The system of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether ; Some words with a mummy -- Poems -- Letters -- Critical principles -- Observations -- Notes -- Selected bibliographies.The first new edition of this landmark anthology since 1945 presents a more complicated, perverse, and culturally engaged Poe. Along with the author's familiar masterworks in poetry and fiction, this new Portable Poe includes satirical tales that reflect his critique of American culture.
Subjects: Short stories, American; Detective and mystery stories, American; Horror tales, American;
© 2006., Penguin Books,
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