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Hell Screen by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
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The Red Laugh by Leonid Andreyev
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible... -
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Poe: Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPoe's poems have been memorized and recited by millions. Among his best-loved works are "The Raven" with its hypnotic chant of "nevermore, " and the sensuous and lyrical "Annabel Lee." This collection includes all of Poe's most popular rhymes... -
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A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš, William T. Vollmann
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Pigeons From Hell by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGriswell awoke suddenly, every nerve tingling with a premonition of imminent peril. He stared about wildly, unable at first to remember where he was, or what he was doing there. Moonlight filtered in through the dusty windows, and the great empty room with its lofty ceiling and gaping black fireplace was spectral and unfamiliar...Categorized as:
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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce
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The Diary of a Space Traveller and other Stories: Puffin Classics by Satyajit Ray, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Masquerade by Joel Abernathy
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Complete Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is internationally renowned as a pioneering master of the macabre. He is regarded as one of the world's great short story writers as well as a great lyric poet, and is credited with inventing the detective story and the modern gothic horror tale... -
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Sredni Vashtar and Other Stories by Saki
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBorn in Burma in 1870, Scottish writer H.H. Munro (his pseudonym is from FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) satirized the social conventions, cruelty and foolishness of the Edwardian era with a highly readable blend of flippant humor and outrageous inventiveness, often overlaid with a mood of horror... -
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The Philip K. Dick Anthology by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDid you ever wonder at the lonely life the bird in a cuckoo clock has to lead—that it might possibly love and hate just as easily as a real animal of flesh and blood? Philip Dick used that idea for a brief fantasy tale. We're sure that after reading it you'll give cuckoo clocks more respect... -
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Dangerous Visions 2 by Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber
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The Phantom of the Opera by Diane Namm, Gaston Leroux
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe lights dim at the Paris Opera House. The exquisite Christine Daaé enraptures the audience with her mellifluous voice. Immediately, Raoul de Chagny falls deeply in love. But the legend of the disfigured "opera ghost" haunts the performance, and as Raoul begins his pursuit of Christine, he is pulled into the depths of the opera house, and into the depths of human emotions... -
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ابق حيا by إبراهيم أحمد عيسى
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsجاءت (أبق حيا) لتحمل نذيرا ما، من بقعة بعيدة في التاريخ، القاهرة الفاطمية و احدي حقبها التي غاب عنها التدوين حد ان جهل عنها البعض.المعاناةُ تجعلنا أقوى. تُجبرنا على الصمود. تصنعُ ما نحن عليه، لنتحلى بالإصرارِ على مواصلةِ الطريق. تجعل أحلامنا المستحيلةَ قريبةً. فقط علينا أن نصبرَ حتى نجني ثمار الإيمان؛ فالكوارثُ تختبرُ إيمانَ البشر، والتضرُّع وحده لا يكفي، فالإيمانُ قولٌ وعملٌ... -
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The Seven That Were Hanged by Leonid Andreyev
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSergey did not know that the colonel, having locked himself all the previous night in his little study, had deliberated upon this ritual with all his power. "We must not aggravate, but ease the last moments of our son," resolved the colonel firmly, and he carefully weighed every possible phase of the conversation, every act and movement that might take place on the following day... -
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To Build a Fire and Other Stories by Jack London
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis edition of To Build a Fire and Other Stories includes an Introduction, Biographical Note, and Afterword by David Lubar. In these collected stories of man against the wilderness, London lays claim to the title of greatest outdoor adventure writer of all time...Categorized as:
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The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThis volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin's best works of fiction. The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are witty parodies of sentimentalism, while Peter the Great's Blackamoor is an early experiment with recreating the past... -
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The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsMarlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas in THE JEW OF MALTA, and the humiliation of Edward II in his fall from power and influence, Marlowe explores the shifting balance between power and helplessness, the sacred and its desecration... -
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Mountain of the Dead by Jeremy Bates
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTHE GREATEST UNSOLVED MYSTERY OF THE 20TH CENTURYFact: During the night of February 1, 1959, in the remote reaches of Siberia, nine Russian hikers slash open their tent from the inside and flee into a blizzard in subpolar temperatures. Fact: By morning all are dead, several having suffered gruesome, violent deaths. What happened to them has baffled investigators and researchers to this day... -
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Fires on the Plain by Shōhei Ōoka
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Written with precise skill and beautifully controlled power. The translation by Ivan Morris is outstanding." —The New York Times**Winner of the 1952 Yomiuri Prize**This haunting novel explores the complete degradation and isolation of a man by war...
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