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Cover of Loss of Breath
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018

"Loss of Breath" is a horror short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). It was first published in 1832.
Cover of Lionizing
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018

A rare comedic short story by Edgar Allan Poe about a young man who has an infatuation with noses.
Cover of The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018

The story follows an unnamed narrator who visits a mental institution in southern France (more accurately, a "Maison de Santé") known for a revolutionary new method of treating mental illnesses called the "system of soothing". A companion with whom he is travelling knows Monsieur...
Cover of Complete Short Stories
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018

This ebook comprises the complete short stories written by French author Guy de Maupassant.
Cover of Astoria
by Washington Irving
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018

Astoria is a novel published in 1836 by Washington Irving, at the behest of John Jacob Astor, about the American West. William R Lighton an editor of Lewis and Clark's journals refers to Pierre Dorion son of the celebrated "Old Dorion" who appears in Irving's book, Pierre having contributed to Lewis and Clark's expedition.
Cover of The Landscape Garden
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018

A classic supernatural short story by Edgar Allan Poe involving a beautiful landscape garden in the setting.
Cover of Ligeia
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019

"Ligeia" (/laɪˈdʒiːə/) is an early short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1838. The story follows an unnamed narrator and his wife Ligeia, a beautiful and intelligent raven-haired woman. She falls ill, composes "The Conqueror Worm", and quotes lines...
Cover of The Duc de L'Omelette
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018

"The Duc de L'Omelette" is a humorous short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier on March 3, 1832, and was subsequently revised a number of times by the author. The Duc de L'Omelette dies while dining on an ortolan, and finds...
Cover of The Street
by H.P. Lovecraft
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018

"The Street" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1919 and first published in the December 1920 issue of the Wolverine amateur journal. The story traces the history of the eponymous street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from its first...
Cover of Celephais
by H.P. Lovecraft
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018

Celephaïs was created in a dream by Kuranes (which is his name in dreams—his real name is not given) as a child of the English landed gentry. As a man in his forties, alone and dispossessed in contemporary London, he dreams it again and then, seeking it, slowly slips away to the dream-world. Finally...
Cover of The Assignation
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018

The Assignation is a short story with Gothic touches and a tragic ending. The story was published as The Visionary in January 1834 in Louis A. Godey's monthly magazine, Lady's Book. After Poe revised the story, it was published as The Assignation in the Broadway Journal in June 1845.
Cover of A Predicament
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018

The bizarre story follows a female narrator, Signora Psyche Zenobia. While walking through "the goodly city of Edina" with her 5-inch-tall (130 mm) poodle and her 3-foot-tall (0.91 m) black servant, Pompey, she is drawn to a large Gothic cathedral. At the steeple, Zenobia sees a small opening...
Cover of The Incomplete Amorist
by Edith Nesbit
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2018

A gentle tale of romance and art from a noted children's author . . . "He asked idle questions: she answered them with a conscientious tremulous truthfulness that showed to him as the most finished art. Betty told him nervously and in words ill-chosen everything that he asked to know, but all...
Cover of Bram Stoker: The Classics Collection
by Bram Stoker
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018

This book contains the Classics Collection of Bram Stoker in the chronological order of their original publication. - Under the Sunset - The Invisible Giant - The Dualitists - Dracula - The Jewel of Seven Stars - The Man - The Lair of the White Worm - Dracula's Guest - The Judge's House - A Dream of Red Hands - The Burial of the Rats - Crooken Sands
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