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The Story of Blue-Beard

The Story of Blue-Beard

by Charles Perrault

Blue Beard is folktale written by Charles Perrault, a French writer who laid the foundations for creation of literary genre folklore. Most of his works were rewritten by Brothers Grimm such as Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty.   This folktale narrates the story of BlueBeard, an ugly aristocrat with bl..

Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930

Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930

by Ray Cummings

Astounding Stories are a collection of stories which were told about the impossible events or imagination which would be difficult to accept at those times. For example if a story is narrated in 1840 based on the concept that men can talk together without any wire, it was an Astounding Story. In 1490, if a story is narrated saying earth is round an..

Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short stories are a collection of the most famous stories written by the Russian novelist, who is remembered for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Idiot. This collection contains his noted short stories including An Honest Thief, A Novel in nine letters, Another man’s wife, The peasant marey, The Crocodile, The dream o..

The Hive

The Hive

by Will Levington Comfort

The Hive is a collection of short stories written by Will Levington Comfort, an American author remembered for his adventure novels. His notable works include Somewhere south of Sonora, Red fleece, The Shielding Wing, and The road of living men. This collection contains more than 25 stories including North Americans, Quickenings, Conquest Of F..

Bliss and Other Stories

Bliss and Other Stories

by Katherine Mansfield

Bliss and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry, who was celebrated as a modernist writer during her short life span of 34 years. Her notable contributions in the form of novels, and collection of short stories include The Garden Party, The Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield, ..

Famous Modern Ghost Stories

Famous Modern Ghost Stories

by Dorothy Scarborough

Famous Modern Ghost Stories is a selective collection of popular ghost stories written by various authors and collected by Emily Dorothy Scarborough, an American writer of folk culture and ghost stories. Her notable writings include Fugitive Verses, The Wind, Impatient Griselda, The Story of Cotton, and On the Trail of Negro Folksongs. Dorothy m..

Mr. Spaceship

Mr. Spaceship

by Philip K. Dick

Mr. Spaceship is a science fiction story written by Philip K. Dick, an American author and who had influential works on science fiction genre with his popular novel and short stories such as The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, A Scanner Darkly, Second Variety, The Variable Man, Th..

The Skull

The Skull

by Philip K. Dick

The Skull is a time travel short story written by the well known science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, remembered for his numerous short stories and novels such as The Man in the High Castle, Second Variety, The Broken Bubble, and Confessions of a Crap Artist. The skull narrates the story of the protagonist Conger, who is imprisoned now has bee..