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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 Illustrated Edgar Allan Poe [15 stories, 1 poem]	Edgar Allan Poe,Roy Gasson	15 stories: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W) …	OL15215427W
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 Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Balloon-Hoax / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent…	Edgar Allan Poe	Balloon-Hoax [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W)…	OL15645814W
The United States in Literature	Bret Harte,Carl Sandburg,Ernest Hemingway,Day, Clarence,Mark Twain,Dorothy Parker,Henry David Thoreau,Washington Irving,James Thurber,O. Henry,Theodore Hornberger,Theresa Helburn,Ogden Nash,Jesse Stuart,Douglas Southall Freeman,Walt Whitman,Stephen Crane,Stephen Vincent Benét,Benjamin Franklin,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Eugene O'Neill,Edgar Allan Poe,Thornton Wilder,Paul Farmer,Walter Blair,Brad Schulberg,Robert C. Pooley	Contains: PART I: American Life Through Literature A. THE GROWTH OF A NATION 23 UNIT I: SETTLING THE SEABOARD 24 Captain Smith Among the Indians John Smith 25 America's First Great Lady Donal…	OL16036156W
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
Poe After Dark	Edgar Allan Poe	Strange and supernatural stories by Edgar Allan Poe. [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openl…	OL16092355W
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