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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Swords and Ice Magic	Fritz Leiber	"Wonderful, magical Fritz Leiber, before whom Bradbury and Sturgeon and Norton and Goldman and Barth and Vonnegut bow, not to mention Robinson, Busby, Anderson and even yours truly, the maddest egoma…	OL101925W
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
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
The Second Hammer Horror Film Omnibus	John Frederick Burke	Four films from the House of Hammer... presented as four spine-chilling novels.	OL10591389W
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
My Oedipus Complex	Frank O'Connor	A child's jealousy of his place in his mother's life erupts when his father comes home from the war, not to subside until a new baby arrives placing his father and him in the same position.	OL1195439W
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
Means Of Evil & Other St (Wexford Collection)	Ruth Rendell	Vijf verhalen met inspecteur Wexford in de hoofdrol.	OL12091W
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 Ebony Tower	John Fowles	The five masterful works of short fiction in The Ebony Tower bring us once again into the company of a great contemporary novelist working his intriguing and dazzling themes, probing the fitful relat…	OL15007W
Works (Kiss Kiss / My Uncle Oswald / Switch Bitch)	Roald Dahl	Contains: [Kiss Kiss](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16248853W/Kiss_Kiss) My Uncle Oswald [Switch Bitch](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45873W/Switch_Bitch)	OL15091046W
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
The Oxford book of short stories	V. S. Pritchett	Sir Walter Scott / The Two Drovers, Nathaniel Hawthorne/ The Birthmark, Edgar Allen Poe / The Fall Of The House Of Usher, ETC.	OL15163212W
Short Stories (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories])	Arthur Conan Doyle	- [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262421W/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes) [Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia) [Re…	OL1518128W
Sherlock Holmes (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes / His Last Bow / Memo…	Arthur Conan Doyle	- [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262421W/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes) [Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia) [Re…	OL1518262W
The Penguin book of modern Indian short stories	Wimal Dissanayake,Stephen Alter	Most translated from various Indian languages.	OL16069493W
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
Distant voices	Barbara Erskine	Barbara Erskine's second volume of short stories creates a wide and vivid range of worlds and emotions, from love, romance, loneliness and grief, to betrayal, passion, adventure and compelling suspen…	OL1838869W