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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Swords in the Mist	Fritz Leiber	"Fritz Leiber has a wicked imagination. Wicked enough to make us laugh at an impossible future containing nightmarish aspects of our own times." Edmond Cooper, Sunday TimesDrawing themes from Shakes…	OL101934W
The Illustrated Man	Ray Bradbury	The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of eighteen science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. A recurring theme throughout the eighteen stories is the conflict of the cold mecha…	OL103128W
Long After Midnight	Ray Bradbury	Two drifters caught in the backwash of space wander from city to dead city, sifting the rubble for the fabled Blue Bottle of Mars—and find in it two different, equally entrancing, dooms... A young…	OL103183W
A Rumpole Christmas	John Mortimer	The first ever collection of Rumpole Christmas stories— just in time for the holidaysA Rumpole Christmas is a collection of five holiday stories—never before published in book form— depicting the Old…	OL10464496W
Water	Peter Dickinson,Robin McKinley	What magical beings inhabit earth’s waters? Some are as almost-familiar as the mer-people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of Damar’s Great Desert Kal…	OL109408W
Ten Thousand Light Years from Home	James Tiptree, Jr.	xxxvi, 312 p. ; 21 cm	OL11359193W
The Treasury of English Short Stories	Sullivan, Nancy.,Arthur Conan Doyle,Charles Dickens,Roald Dahl,Geoffrey Chaucer,Margaret Atwood,Alice Munro	The Reeve's Tale / Geoffrey Chaucer -- The Apparition of Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe -- The Wedding of Jenny Distaff / Richard Steele -- A Story of an Heir / Joseph Addison -- The Mysterious Bride /…	OL120633W
The Bedside Book of Famous British Stories	Arthur Conan Doyle,Bennett Cerf,Charles Dickens,Geoffrey Chaucer	The pardoner's tale / Geoffrey Chaucer -- The marvellous adventure of the sword / Sir Thomas Malory -- The apparition of Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe -- The vision of Mirza / Joseph Addison -- Asem, …	OL12844W
Seven Gothic tales	Isak Dinesen	Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" (The Atlantic), is a modern classic. Here are seven exquisite tales c…	OL1325745W
Mulliner nights	P. G. Wodehouse	'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen FryA Mulliner collectionA private detective who can make the guilty confess simply by smiling at them. A…	OL1337103W
A touch of chill	Joan Aiken	Author - Joan Aiken - The homely and the exotic mix in fifteen unique tales. The macabre and witty stories are a melange of horror guaranteed to send chills up the spine of any sleepless reader.	OL14851434W
Stories for children	Oscar Wilde	Presents Wilde's well-known Selfish Giant, Nightingale and the Rose, Devoted Friend, Happy Prince, Remarkable Rocket, and Young King.	OL14877843W
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [1/2] (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Hound of the Baskervilles / Mem…	Arthur Conan Doyle	Eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious, Sherlock Holmes remains the world's most popular and influential fictional detective. In four novels and fifty-six short stories, Holmes with his trusted friend Dr…	OL14929975W
Adventures in Reading -- Volume 1-- Short Stories	Marjorie Braymer,Arthur Conan Doyle,Ray Bradbury,Edgar Allan Poe,Evan Lodge,B.J. Chute	Dive right in / B.J. Chute Catherine and the winter wheat / P.B. Hughes Apprentice / Dorothy Canfield Ransom of Red Chief / O. Henry The adventure of the dying detective / Arthur Conan Doyle …	OL15132289W
Girls' night out	Sarah Mlynowski,Carole Matthews,Chris Manby	Presents twenty-one short stories by American and British women writers, including Jessica Adams, Emily Giffin, Marian Keyes, Anna Maxted, and Lauren Henderson. Featuring such "New York Times" bests…	OL15140762W
Notwithstanding	Louis de Bernières	A funny and heartbreaking new book from one of Britain's favourite and bestselling writers.A Frenchman once pointed out to Louis de Bernieres that Britain was the most exotic country in Europe, addin…	OL15171508W
Short stories of Russia today	Yvonne Kapp	250 p. ; 21 cm. Contents: Loaf sugar / by Konstantin Paustovsky -- Nor-bibi's crime / by Vera Inber -- His first point / by Mihail Prishvin -- A man is born / by Boris Gorbatov -- Foma Zabotkin…	OL1645520W
Short Stories (Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes / His Last Bow / Return of Sherlock Holmes)	Arthur Conan Doyle	Editada por una de las autoridades sherlockianas más destacadas, Leslie S. Klinger, la presente publicación es reconocida como la más importante de las realizadas sobre el detective en cuatro décadas…	OL16550749W
Jackanapes and other tales	Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing	This is the life story of Theodore, whose nickname is Jackanapes, and all the other people in the village where he lives.	OL1795281W
All the rage	A.L. Kennedy	"A. L. Kennedy's latest collection of stories is an investigation of "certain types of threat and the odder edges of sweet things"--Another intense and luscious feast of language from the author of T…	OL18159289W