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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
A flag on the island	V. S. Naipaul	A collection of stories with settings in England, India and Trinidad, and ranging from humor to horror.	OL103107W
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
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
A book of the short story	Arthur Conan Doyle,Антон Павлович Чехов,E. A. Cross,Charles Dickens,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Jack London,Ethan Allen Cross	The prodigal son / The Bible The mysterious bride / James Hogg Rip van Winkle / Washington Irving Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott The pistol shot / Alexander Pushkin Ligeia / Edg…	OL11020634W
Ten Thousand Light Years from Home	James Tiptree, Jr.	xxxvi, 312 p. ; 21 cm	OL11359193W
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
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
Doctor Marigold	Charles Dickens	Originally published in 1865, Doctor Marigold was extremely successful, as were Dickens's public performances of a play based on the story--fascinating and easy to read. Doctor (it is his given name)…	OL14869997W
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