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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Mrs. Todd's Shortcut	Stephen King	"Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the May 1984 issue of Redbook magazine, and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew. ---------- Contained i…	OL149148W
Stationary Bike	Stephen King	After being told by his doctor that his cholesterol level is too high, Richard Sefkitz begins riding a stationary bike in the basement of his apartment building. To help alleviate the boredom, he buy…	OL149163W
Works (Carrie / Night Shift / 'Salem's Lot / Shining)	Stephen King	Contains: - [Carrie][4] - [Night Shift][3] - ['Salem's Lot][2] - [Shining][1] [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81633W [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81632W [3]: https:/…	OL14917547W
Umney's Last Case	Stephen King	It’s just another ordinary day in 1930s Los Angeles for private investigator Clyde Umney, until a new client walks into his office. Umney soon learns that his client is the crime-fiction writer who n…	OL14917659W
Poetry, Tales and Selected Essays [74 stories, 62 poems, 5 essays]	Edgar Allan Poe	Poetry. Tales and Sketches The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym The Journal of Julius Rodman . Eureka: A Prose Poem . Selected Essays. Chronology …	OL14938065W
Selected Poems & Tales	Edgar Allan Poe	16 stories: Balloon-Hoax [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) […	OL14938088W
Athénaïse (Athénaïse / Désirée’s Baby / Pair of Silk Stockings)	Kate Chopin	Contains: Athénaïse [Désirée’s Baby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078777W) [Pair of Silk Stockings](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078930W)	OL14943619W
Great American Women's Fiction	Edith Wharton,Willa Cather,Kate Chopin,Charlotte Perkins Gilman	On the divide ; The garden lodge / Willa Cather -- A point at issue ; [The Story of an Hour][1] ; [Désirée’s Baby][2] ; [A Pair of Silk Stockings][3] / Kate Chopin -- The yellow wallpaper ; Three t…	OL14943648W
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
Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories	Roald Dahl	Contains: [Parson's Pleasure](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8318648W/Parson's_Pleasure) [Piece of Cake](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504283W) [Lamb to the Slaughter](https://openlibrary.org…	OL15091060W
The Roald Dahl Omnibus	Roald Dahl	Contains: From [Someone Like You](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45868W/Someone_Like_You) [Taste](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15091200W/Taste) [Lamb to the Slaughter](https://openlibrary.or…	OL15091154W
Tel est pris qui croyait prendre (Champion of the World / Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat / Parso…	Roald Dahl	Contains: [Champion of the World](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504277W/The_Champion_of_the_World) [Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3985404W/Mrs._Bixby_and_th…	OL15091201W
The Hidden Power of Nonchalance	Ulrich Schödlbauer	Die Bezeichnung ›Novelle‹ deutet den Gegenstand dieses langen männlichen Monologs an, der an wenigen Stellen durch kurze Einwürfe einer zweiten - weiblichen - Stimme unterbrochen wird. Es ist der B…	OL15270944W
Experiencing Reading	Mary Jones,Roszak, Theodore,Marie Brenner,Janet A. Emig,Carmen Collins,Edgar Rice Burroughs,Edward Brown,Sara Teasdale,Hugh Rank,H. W. Janson,Percy Bysshe Shelley,James Barron,Maxine Hong Kingston,Daniel Goleman,Allen Chaffee,Mark Mathabane,Eugene Linden,Ray Bradbury,Stephen Crane,John Marchese,Gina Kolata,Robert S. Mcnamara,Sandra Blakeslee,Doris Lessing,Alan Ferguson,John Noble Wilford,Stefan Kanfer,Sandra G. Brown,William J. McGreevy,William Somerset Maugham,Luisa Valenzuela,Samuel M. Bluefarb,Kate Chopin,Barbara Crossette,Bryan Miller,Countee Cullen,Lawrence Kutner,Richard Brautigan,Barbara Flanagan,Pico Iyer,William Safire,Victoria Roberts,John A. Gould,Dik Browne,Martha Sullivan,Norman Cousins,Gary Kleck,Allan Kozinn,Marian Anderson,Lawrence Ferlinghetti,Michael T. Kaufman,Fanny Tillman Trueherz	Incident —Countee Cullen 5 Excerpt from The History of Art —H. W. Janson 11 Don't let that horse/eat that violin —Lawrence Ferlinghetti 11 The Upturned Face —Stephen Crane 14 How to Defuse t…	OL15334552W
The Kiss and Other Stories (Désirée’s Baby / Godmother / Kiss / Story of an Hour / Unexpected)	Kate Chopin	Contains: The kiss -- [Désirée’s Baby][1] [The Story of an Hour][2] The unexpected -- The godmother. [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078777W/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9e%E2%80%99s_Baby […	OL16045260W
Great Science Fiction About Doctors	Alan Nelson,Murray Leinster,Arthur Conan Doyle,David Henry Keller,Noah D. Fabricant,David Harold Fink,Groff Conklin,Arthur C. Clarke,William Morrison,Nathaniel Hawthorne,M.D. J.A. Winter,Edgar Allan Poe,Cyril M. Kornbluth,Miles J. Breuer MD,Winston K. Marks,F.L. Wallace,Alan Edward Nourse,Clifton Dance, Jr.,Arthuer Porges,J.R. Shango	The Man Without an Appetite by Miles J. Breuer Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting by Arthur C. Clarke The Brothers by Clifton Dance, Jr. The Great Keinpatz Experiment by Arthur Conan Doyle Com…	OL16045473W
Fiction Gallery	Anthony Doerr,Jorge Luis Borges,Антон Павлович Чехов,Alexander Steele,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Gotham Writers' Workshop,Thom Didato,Kate Chopin	Introducing Exceptional Short Stories Selected by New York’s Acclaimed Writing School Fiction Gallery features works by 25 authors, including such acknowledged masters of short fiction as An…	OL16103089W
Bedtime stories	Ambrose Bierce,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Diana Secker Tesdell,村上春樹,Vladimir Nabokov,Neil Gaiman	Contains: The thing in the forest / A.S. Byatt -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Troll bridge / Neil Gaiman -- The poacher / Ursula K. LeG…	OL16121277W
Selections from Twice-Told Tales (David Swan / Howe's Masquerade / Lady Eleanore's Mantle / Ministe…	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Contains: - David Swan - Howe's Masquerade - Lady Eleanore's Mantle - [Minister's Black Veil](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455342W) - Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe - Old Esther Dudl…	OL16641796W
For His Warriors	Rob Mimpriss	For His Warriors: Thirty Stories is the second of a series of three collections, preceded by Reasoning and followed by Prayer at the End. *Being with Melanie gives me hopes and ideas. I coul…	OL17194956W