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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The iron gates	Margaret Millar	From Google Books: "Lucille Morrow was blessed -- a beautiful woman with a devoted husband. One day a mysterious messenger delivered a package, and suddenly Lucille Morrow was gone. Dominated by fear…	OL137320W
American 24-Karat Gold	Yvonne Collioud Sisko,Mark Twain,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Ray Bradbury,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,Kate Chopin,Jack London	Ripe figs / Kate Chopin -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Yoruba / Migene Gonzalez-Wippler -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4…	OL15132668W
The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural	Robert Phillips,H. G. Wells,Robert Bloch,Charles L. Grant,Henry James,Ambrose Bierce,Stephen King,Thomas M. Disch,Jack Dann,William Faulkner,Winston S. Churchill,Ramsey Campbell,Cornell Woolrich,H.P. Lovecraft,William F. Nolan,Henry Slesar,Elizabeth Morton,Fredric Brown,John Lutz,Robert Silverberg,Truman Capote,Theodore Sturgeon,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Barry Malzberg,Theodore Cogswell,Robert Scheckley,Edgar Allan Poe,Fritz Leiber,Arthur Porges,Bill Pronzini,Bram Stoker,Theodore Dreiser,Joyce Carol Oates,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Cyril M. Kornbluth,Ray Russell,Barry N. Malzberg,Edward D. Hoch,Karl Edward Wagner,Evan Hunter,Arthur L. Samuels,Adobe James	Contains: Hop frog / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Rappaccini's Daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Squire Toby's will / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The squaw / Bram Stok…	OL15705711W
Delirium	Laura Restrepo	From the Publisher: In this remarkably nuanced novel, both a gripping detective story and a passionate, devastating tale of eros and insanity in Colombia, internationally acclaimed author Laura Rest…	OL15865951W
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition	Jorge Luis Borges,Антон Павлович Чехов,Richard Bausch,Ambrose Bierce,Alice Walker,William Faulkner,Philip A. Roth,Sherwood Anderson,John Steinbeck,Nathaniel Hawthorne,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,James Joyce,Richard Wright,Kate Chopin,Gabriel García Márquez,Vladimir Nabokov,Alice Munro,R. V. Cassill	Stories I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson Death by Landscape Related: Atwood, Why do you write? / Margaret Atwood Sonny's blues / James Baldwin Gorilla, my love Related: Bambara, What is i…	OL17610044W
Fictions--Second Edition	Mark Twain,Jorge Luis Borges,Антон Павлович Чехов,Edith Wharton,Ambrose Bierce,Alice Walker,William Faulkner,Philip A. Roth,Joseph F. Trimmer,John Steinbeck,Nathaniel Hawthorne,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,James Joyce,Richard Wright,Jack London,Gabriel García Márquez,Doyle, A. Conan,Shirley Jackson,Alice Munro,C. Wade Jennings	Truth or consequences / Alice Adams The egg / Sherwood Anderson Sonny's blues / James Baldwin The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara Sara Cole: a type of love story / Russell Banks The author / Donald B…	OL17733654W
Life sentences	Alice Blanchard	Research scientist Daisy Hubbard's main purpose in life is to find a cure for the disease that killed her brother. On the verge of that discovery in her Boston lab, she receives news that her sister …	OL17739944W
Life sentences	Alice Blanchard	"A genetic researcher in Boston is driven to find a cure for the rare disease that claimed the life of her younger brother. But her progress is halted when her mentally unstable sister is discovered …	OL18095540W
Fiction 100	Arthur Conan Doyle,Alice Walker,William Faulkner,Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский,John Steinbeck,Thomas Wolfe,Nathaniel Hawthorne,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,James H. Pickering,James Joyce,Richard Wright,Jack London,Gabriel García Márquez,Shirley Jackson,Alice Munro	The Grand inquisitor / Fëdor Dostoevski -- [The Adventure of the speckled band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262561W) / Arthur Conan Doyle -- King of the Bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- [Barn bu…	OL18160158W
The Norton Introduction to Fiction--Fourth Edition	Richard Connell,Jorge Luis Borges,Антон Павлович Чехов,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,James Joyce,Spencer Holst,Kate Chopin,Gabriel García Márquez,Jerome Beaty,Alice Munro	The zebra storyteller / Spencer Holst No one's a mystery / Elizabeth Tallent The jewelry / Guy de Maupassant [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allan Poe Sonny'…	OL20501950W
The yellow wallpaper	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	'The Yellow Wall-Paper' is Gilman's pioneering Gothic masterpiece, telling the story of a woman's descent into madness. Confined to a room, with only the intricate wallpaper for stimulation, the narr…	OL24309785W
The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Fourth Edition	Jorge Luis Borges,Антон Павлович Чехов,Ambrose Bierce,Alice Walker,William Faulkner,John Steinbeck,Nathaniel Hawthorne,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,James Joyce,Richard Wright,Kate Chopin,Gabriel García Márquez,Shirley Jackson,Ann Charters,Chinua Achebe,Gustave Flaubert,Alice Munro	Civil peace / Chinua Achebe The last lovely city / Alice Adams Dominoes / Jack Agueros The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen And of clay arewe created / Isabel Allende Death in the woods ; Hands /…	OL26150265W
Perrine's Story and Structure--Twelfth Edition	Richard Connell,Greg Johnson Thomas A. Arp,Антон Павлович Чехов,Edith Wharton,Alice Walker,William Faulkner,Greg Johnson,Nathaniel Hawthorne,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,James Joyce,Richard Wright,Kate Chopin,Gabriel García Márquez,Shirley Jackson,Thomas R. Arp,Chinua Achebe,Alice Munro	Richard Connell, [Most Dangerous Game](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5278311W) Tobias Wolff, Hunters in the Snow Understanding and Evaluating Fiction Graham Greene, The Destructors Alice Munro,…	OL26150350W
Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition	Jorge Luis Borges,Alice Walker,William Faulkner,Lewis Carroll,X. J. Kennedy,Emily Brontë,John Steinbeck,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Tennessee Williams,Edgar Allan Poe,James Joyce,Kate Chopin,Sylvia Plath,Jack London,Shirley Jackson,Margaret Atwood,Chinua Achebe,Dana Gioia,William Shakespeare	Fiction. Talking with Amy Tan -- Reading a story -- The art of fiction -- Types of short fiction -- Death has an appointment in Samarra / Sufi Legend -- The north wind and the sun / Aesop -- Th…	OL26371856W
Fiction	R. S. Gwynn,Ernest Hemingway,Антон Павлович Чехов,Edith Wharton,Alice Walker,William Faulkner,Raymond Carver,Willa Cather,Bobbie Ann Mason,John Steinbeck,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Updike,Doris Lessing,Edgar Allan Poe,Guy de Maupassant,Louise Erdrich,James Joyce,Eudora Welty,Joyce Carol Oates,Ralph Ellison,Richard Wright,Flannery O'Connor,Kate Chopin,Gabriel García Márquez,Shirley Jackson,Margaret Atwood,Chinua Achebe,Alice Munro,Denise Chávez	[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Masque of the Red Death ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- The necklace / Guy de…	OL5107038W
A quiet storm	Rachel Howzell Hall	"Rikki Moore was always the star of the family, easily outshining her younger sister, Stacy, at every turn. Smart, kind, and beautiful, it was no surprise when Rikki met and married the perfect man -…	OL5955840W
The good patient	Kristin Waterfield Duisberg	"Brilliant, acerbic, funny, and relentless, Darien Gilbertson appears to have it all: a successful career, a husband who loves her absolutely, and all the material comforts of a New York life. But Da…	OL5959906W
Jane Eyre	Sara Thomson	On cover: "...this classic story shows how a young woman can overcome adversity and find true happiness. After her uncle dies, young Jane Eyre is terribly mistreated by her aunt and cousins. She is q…	OL5971543W
The Evil Image	Lord Byron,Charlotte Brontë,A. E. Coppard,John Keats,Nora Jaffe,Thomas Hardy,Daniel Defoe,Washington Irving,Henry James,William Butler Yeats,Stephen King,William Faulkner,Stephen Crane,Emily Brontë,Charles Dickens,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Robert Louis Stevenson,Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Louisa May Alcott,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Patricia L. Skarda,Edgar Allan Poe,Eudora Welty,Flannery O'Connor,Christina Georgina Rosetti,Matthew Gregory Lewis,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Mary Alcock,Ann Radcliffe,Montague Rhodes James,John Aikin,John William Polidori,Anne Sexton,Sir Walter Scott	xi • General Introduction (The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry) • essay by Patricia L. Skarda and Nora Crow Jaffe xxv • Critical Studies of the Gothic • essay by uncredi…	OL8200891W
Delirio	Laura Restrepo	Internationally acclaimed for the virtuosity and power of her fiction, Laura Restrepo has created in Delirium a passionate, lyrical, devastating tale of eros and insanity.Aguilar, an unemployed liter…	OL97948W