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The collected stories

By Paley, Grace. New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1995 . 386 p. 9780374524319

Tales of mystery and imagination

By Poe, Edgar Allan. London Penguin 2008 . 107 p. , Content : The gold-bug. The fall of the house of Usher. The read death. The barrel of amontillado. The whirlpool. The pit and the pendulum. The Stolen letter. Metzengerstein. The murders in the rue Morgue. 9781405862547

The great tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe

By Poe, Edgar Allan. New York Pocket Books 1942 . 360 p. , All stories and poems are complete, just as the author wrote them.

The martian chronicles

By Bradbury, Ray. New York Bantam 1979 . 182 p. , The strange and wonderful tale of man’s experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions. Now part of the Voyager Classics collection. The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a fist. They felt they had never been born. Those few that survived found no welcome on Mars. The shape-changing Martians thought they were native lunatics and duly locked them up. But more rockets arrived from Earth, and more, piercing the hallucinations projected by the Martians. People brought their old prejudices with them – and their desires and fantasies, tainted dreams. These were soon inhabited by the strange native beings, with their caged flowers and birds of flame. Contents: Rocket Summer Ylla The Summer Night The Earth Men The Taxpayer The Third Expedition -And the Moon Be Still As Bright The Settlers The Green Morning The Locusts Night Meeting The Shore Interim The Musicians Way in the Middle of the Air The Naming of Names Usher II The Old Ones The Martian The Luggage Store The Off Season The Watchers The Silent Towns The Long Years There Will Come Soft Rains The Million Year Picnic 0553278223

The best ghost stories ever

By Krovatin, Christopher . New York Scholastic 2003 . 180 p. , Watch your step. Be careful what you do. Ghosts are everywhere. In houses new and old. In lonely walks and grim gatherings. Underneath the wallpaper. Riding through the night.These are some of the spookiest ghost stories ever written, from authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and Henry James.Prepare to be haunted... 0439574269

Trust me

By Updike, John. New York Fawcett Crest 1987 . 315 p. , The theme of trust, betrayed or fulfilled, runs through this collection of short stories: Parents lead children into peril, husbands abandon wives, wives manipulate husbands, and time undermines all. Love pangs, a favorite subject of the author, take on a new urgency as earthquakes, illnesses, lost wallets, and deaths of distant friends besiege his aging heroes and heroines. One man loves his wife’s twin, and several men love the imagined bliss of their pasts; one woman takes an impotent lover, and another must administer her father’s death. Bourgeois comforts and youthful convictions are tenderly seen as certain to erode: “Man,” as one of these stories concludes, “was not meant to abide in paradise.” (less) 0449214982