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Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 3 - cover

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 3

Robert Louis Stevenson, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Wallace, G. K. Chesterton, Zane Grey, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, Arthur Machen, Talbot Mundy, Abraham Merritt, August Nemo

Publisher: Tacet Books

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Summary

This book contains70 short storiesfrom 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the criticAugust Nemo, in a collection that will please theliterature lovers. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections.
This book contains:

- Robert Louis Stevenson:The Waif Woman
The Bottle Imp
Thrawn Janet
Markheim
The Body Snatcher
Olalla
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

- Robert E. Howard:Worms of the Earth
The Queen of Black Coast
Pigeons from Hell
The Children of the Night
Red Nails
The Twilight of the Grey Gods
The Shadow of the Vulture

- G. K. Chesterton:The Blue Cross
The Invisible Man
The Man Who Was Thursday  A Nightmare
The Strange Crime of John Boulnois
The Three Tools of Death
The Wrong Shape
The Mistake of the Machine

- Edgar Wallace:The Cat Burglar
Circumstantial Evidence
The Ghost of Downhill
The Poetical Policeman
Red Aces
The Four Just Men
The Shadow Man

- Arthur Machen:The Great God Pan
The White People
The Black Seal
The Novel of the White Powder
The Red Hand
The Inmost Light
The Bowmen

- Ambrose Bierce:An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
One Summer Night
The Death Of Halpin Frayser
The Moonlit Road
A Psychological Shipwreck
The Stranger
The Middle Toe of the Right Foot

- Talbot Mundy:The Soul Of A Regiment
The Pillar Of Light
The Lady and the Lord
Kitty Bruns Her Fingers
The Mystic India Speaks
The Real Red Root
The Hermit and the Tiger

- Abraham Merritt:The Pool Of The Stone God
The Last Poet And The Robots
The Fox Woman
The People Of The Pit
The Drone
Through The Dragon Glass
Three Lines Of Old French

- Zane Grey:Amber's Mirage
The Ranger
Don: The Story Of A Lion Dog
The Wolf Tracker
Lure of the River
A Missouri Schoolmarm
Monty Price's Nightingale

- Edgar Rice Burroughs:Tarzan's First Love
A Jungle Joke
Tarzan Rescues the Moon
John Carter and the Giant Of Mars
The Ancient Dead
Beyond Thirty
Skeleton Men of Jupiter
Available since: 04/08/2020.

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