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Selected Short Stories (Modern Classics)

8 best books like Selected Short Stories (Modern Classics) (H.G. Wells): The Blind Assassin, How to Be a Victorian, The Waves, At the Mountains of Madness, Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman, Carnacki, the Ghost Finder, Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman, Out of Skin

The Blind Assassin
AuthorMargaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. Told in a style that magnificently captures the colloquialisms and clichés of the 1930s and 1940s, The Blind Assassin...
How to Be a Victorian
AuthorRuth Goodman
ISBN0670921351
Step into the skin of your ancestors . . .

We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert, but what was it like for a commoner? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Dress in whalebone and feed opium to the baby?...
The Waves
AuthorVirginia Woolf
ISBN0156949601
Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters—three men and three women—who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Virginia Woolf draws her characters from...
At the Mountains of Madness
AuthorH.P. Lovecraft
ISBN0812974417
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of...
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
AuthorE.W. Hornung
ISBN0141439335
Gentleman thief Raffles is daring, debonair, devilishly handsome-and a first-rate cricketer. In these eight stories, the master burglar indulges his passion for cricket and crime: stealing jewels from a country house, outwitting the law, pilfering from the nouveau riche, and, of course, bowling...
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
AuthorWilliam Hope Hodgson
ISBN1406905747
Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder is a collection of supernatural detective short stories by author William Hope Hodgson. It was first published in 1913 by the English publisher Eveleigh Nash. In 1947, a new edition of 3,050 copies was published by Mycroft & Moran and included three additional stories....
Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman
AuthorE.W. Hornung
ISBN1426407076
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
Out of Skin
AuthorEmily Carroll
Disturbing. Haunting. Deliciously creepy. The illustrations are beautiful (although now likely to give me nightmares for the foreseeable future) and perfectly fit alongside the sparse text to give off an aura of confusion and terror.

Perhaps not the best thing to read on my own in the dark...
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