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W.W. Jacobs

E.T.A Hoffmann

August Nemo

Robert Louis Stevenson

H.P. Lovecraft

Edgar Allan Poe

This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Horror.

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This book contains:

- Edgar Allan Poe:
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- The Cask of Amontillado
- The Masque of the Red Death
- The Pit and the Pendulum
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- The Black Cat
- H. P. Lovecraft:
- The Call of Cthulhu
- The Outsider
- Pickman's Model
- The Statement of Randolph Carter
- The Colour out of Space
- The Dunwich Horror
- The Music of Erich Zann
- W. W. Jacobs:
- The Monkey's Paw
- A Golden Venture
- A Love-Knot
- An Adulteration Act
- Back to Back
- Establishing Relations
- Captain Rogers
- E.T.A. Hoffmann:
- The Golden Pot
- The Sandman
- Councillor Krespela
- Automata
- The Elementary Spirit
- The Jesuits' Church in G--
- The Story of the Hard Nut
- Robert Louis Stevenson:
- The Waif Woman
- The Bottle Imp
- Thrawn Janet
- Markheim
- The Body Snatcher
- Olalla
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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Big Book of Best Short Stories Specials

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Horror: Volume 1

B.M. Bower

Andy Adams

Hamlin Garland

Bret Harte

Zane Grey

This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Western.
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This book contains:

- Bret Harte:
- The Luck of Roaring Camp
- The Outcasts of Poker Flat
- Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff
- A Convert of the Mission
- A Widow of the Santa Ana Valley
- A Yellow Dog
- Melons
- Andy Adams:
- Drifting North.
- Siegerman's Per Cent.
- "Bad Medicine".
- A Winter Round-Up.
- A College Vagabond.
- The Double Trail.
- Rangering.
- B. M. Bower:
- The Lonesome Trail.
- First Aid To Cupid.
- When The Cook Fell Ill.
- The Lamb.
- The Spirit of the Range.
- The Reveler.
- The Unheavenly Twins
- Zane Grey:
- Amber's Mirage
- The Ranger
- Don: The Story Of A Lion Dog
- The Wolf Tracker
- Lure of the River
- A Missouri Schoolmarm
- Monty Price's Nightingale
- Hamlin Garland:
- Under the Lion's Paw
- A Branch Road
- A "Good Fellow's Wife"
- A Night Raid at Eagle River
- Uncle Ethan Ripley
- Mrs. Ripley's Trip
- A Day's Pleasure

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Western: Volume 2

Theophile Gautier

Émile Zola

Pierre Louys

Guy de Maupassant

Honoré de Balzac

This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: France.

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This book contains:

- Guy de Maupassant:
- The Necklace
- Mademoiselle Fifi
- Miss Harriet
- My Uncle Jules
- Boule de Suif
- The Wreck
- The Hand
- Émile Zola:
- Captain Burle
- The Miller's Daughter
- Jean Gourdon's Four Days
- The Fete At Coqueville
- The Flood
- Death of Olivier Becaille
- Nana
- Pierre Louÿs:
- Woman and Puppy.
- The New Pleasure.
- Byblis.
- Leda.
- Immortal Love.
- The Artist Triumphant.
- The Hill Of Horsel.
- Theóphile Gautier:
- Clarimonde
- The Mummy's Foot
- One Of Cleopatra's Night
- Omphale: A Rococo Story
- King Candaules
- Arria Marcella
- The Romance of a Mummy
- Honoré de Balzac:
- The Red Inn
- El Verdugo
- The Atheist's Mass
- La Grande Bretèche
- The Elixir of Life
- Study of a Woman
- Domestic Peace

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - France: Volume 3

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Arthur Conan Doyle

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Ernest Bramah

Robert Barr

This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Mystery and Detective.
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This book contains:

- Robert Barr:
- An Alpine Divorce
- "And the Rigour of the Game"
- Gentlemen: The King!
- The Hour and the Man
- The Man Who was not on the Passenger List
- Which Was the Murderer?
- Not According to the Code
- Arthur Conan Doyle:
- A Scandal In Bohemia
- The Five Orange Pips
- The Disintegration Machine
- When the World Screamed
- The Great Keinplatz Experiment
- The Horror of the Heights
- The Ring of Thoth
- G. K. Chesterton:
- The Blue Cross
- The Invisible Man
- The Man Who Was Thursday A Nightmare
- The Strange Crime of John Boulnois
- The Three Tools of Death
- The Wrong Shape
- The Mistake of the Machine
- Ernest Bramah:
- The Secret of Headlam Height
- The Mystery of the Vanished Petition Crown
- The Holloway Flat Tragedy
- The Curious Circumstances Of The Two Left Shoes
- The Ingenious Mind Of Mr. Rigby Lacksome
- The Crime At The House In Culver Street
- The Strange Case Of Cyril Bycourt
- E. Phillips Oppenheim:
- The Noxious Gift.
- Traske and the Bracelet.
- The Atruscan Silver mine.
- The Defeat of Rundermere.
- The End of John DykesBurglar.
- A Woman Intervenes.
- The Regeneration of Jacobs.

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Mystery and Detective: Volume 5

Laura E. Richards

L. Frank Baum

Kenneth Grahame

Maria Edgeworth

Louisa May Alcott

This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Children's Literature
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This book contains:
Kenneth Grahame:

- The Twenty-First of October
- Dies Irae
- Mutabile Semper
- The Magic Ring
- Its Walls Were as of Jasper
- A Saga of the Seas
- The Reluctant DragonL. Frank Baum:

- A Kidnapped Santa Claus
- The Man In The Moon
- Little Dorothy and Toto
- Ozma and the Little Wizard
- The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger
- The Scarecrow and The Tin Woodman
- How The Beggars Came To TownLaura E. Richards:

- Maine to the Rescue
- The Coming of the King
- The Golden Windows
- The Shed Chamber
- The Green Satin Gown
- The Scarlet Leaves
- Don AlonzoLouisa May Alcott:

- A Modern Cinderella
- My Red Cap
- A Christmas Dream, and How it Came to Be True
- An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving
- Aunt Kipp
- Rosy's Journey
- The BrothersMaria Edgeworth:

- The Grateful Negro
- The Prussian Vase
- The Good Aunt
- The Good French Governess
- The Orphans
- The False Key
- Tarlton

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Children's Literature: Volume 6

Amelia Edwards

E.F. Benson

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Hugh Walpole

Bram Stoker

This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Horror.

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This book contains:
Bram Stoker:

- The Castle of the King
- A Star Trap
- The Secret of the Growing Gold
- The Burial of the Rats
- Dracula's Guest
- The Squaw
- The Judge's HouseSheridan Le Fanu:

- Carmilla
- Green Tea
- Mr. Justice Harbottle
- The Familiar
- The Room in the Dragon Volant
- Jim Sulivan's Adventures in the Great Snow
- HauntedAmelia B. Edwards:

- An Engineer's Story
- A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest
- The Story of Salome
- In the Confessional
- Was it an illusion?
- How the Third Floor Knew the Potteries
- The Tragedy in the Palazzo BardelloE. F. Benson:

- The Room in the Tower
- Caterpillars
- Mrs. Amworth
- Mr. Tilly's Seance
- Negotium Perambulans
- How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery
- The Horror-HornHugh Walpole:

- The Whistle.
- The Silver Mask
- The Staircase.
- A carnation for an old man.
- Tarnhelm
- Mr. Oddy.
- Seashore Macabre.

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Horror 3: Volume 9

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fitz James O'Brien

A. Merritt

H.G. Wells

Stanley G. Weinbaum

This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Science Fiction.
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This book contains:
Abraham Merritt:

- The Pool Of The Stone God
- The Last Poet And The Robots
- The Fox Woman
- The People Of The Pit
- The Drone
- Through The Dragon Glass
- Three Lines Of Old FrenchEdgar Rice Burroughs:

- Tarzan's First Love
- A Jungle Joke
- Tarzan Rescues the Moon
- John Carter and the Giant Of Mars
- The Ancient Dead
- Beyond Thirty
- Skeleton Men of JupiterHerbert George Wells:

- The Time Machine
- A Dream Of Armageddon
- The Crystal Egg
- The Man Who Could Work Miracles
- The Flowering of the Strange Orchid
- The Sea Riders
- The AppleStanley G. Weinbaum:

- A Martian Odyssey
- The Adaptative Ultimate
- Parasite Planet
- Pygmalion's Spectacles
- The Mad Moon
- Redemption Cairn
- The Lotus EatersFitz-James O'Brien:

- The Diamond Lens.
- The Lost Room.
- What Was it? A Mystery.
- My Wife's Tempter.
- The Golden Ingot.
- The Child Who Loved a Grave.
- Thw Wondersmith.

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Science Fiction: Volume 10

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Valery Bryusov

Leo Tolstoy

Nikolai Gogol

Anton Chekhov

This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Russia.
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This book contains:
Nikolai Gogol:

- The Nose
- The Viy
- The Cloak
- Old-Fashioned Farmers
- The Overcoat
- Memoirs of a Madman
- The Mysterious PortraitAnton Chekhov:

- The Lady With The Little Dog
- Ward No. 6
- A Joke
- The Darling
- Kashtanka
- The Black Monk
- In The Ravinein the ravienFyodor Dostoevsky:

- White Nights
- An Honest Thief
- The Christmas Tree and the Wedding
- Notes From Underground
- The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
- A Little Hero
- Mr. Prohartchin
Leo Tolstoy:

- God Sees the Truth, But Waits
- Papa Panov's Special Christmas
- Three Questions
- Work, Death and Sickness A Legend
- How Much Land Does a Man Needs?
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- Alyosha the Pot
Valery Bryusov:

- The Republic of the Southern Cross.
- The Marble Bust.
- For Herself or for Another.
- In the Mirror.
- Protection.
- The "Bemol" Shop of Stationery.
- Rhea Silvia.

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Russia 2: Volume 11

George MacDonald

Eleanor H. Porter

Wilhelm Hauff

H.C. Andersen

Selma Lagerlöf

This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is:Children's literature II.
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This book contains:

- Selma Lagerlöf.
- Hans Christian Andersen.
- Elanor H. Porter.
- Wilhelm Hauff.
- George MacDonald.

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Children's literature 2: Volume 12

Mary Austin

Robert E. Howard

Owen Wister

John Fox Jr.

Ernest Haycox

This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Western.
For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections.
This book contains:

- Owen Wister.
- John Fox Jr.
- Mary Austin.
- Ernest Haycox.
- Robert E. Howards.

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Western 2: Volume 14