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    The Best American Horror Short Stories: Audio Edition : Selected American Short Stories
    The Best American Horror Short Stories: Audio Edition : Selected American Short Stories
    The Best American Horror Short Stories: Audio Edition : Selected American Short Stories
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    The Best American Horror Short Stories: Audio Edition : Selected American Short Stories

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    Timeless collection of selected American horror short stories.

    Finding time for reading can often be a difficult task for many people with hectic and busy schedules. Committing oneself to a novel often involves a major investment of time and daily distractions, and tasks interfere with the ability to complete a novel in a timely fashion. Short stories are designed to be read in one sitting. As such, short stories can be easily read on the morning commute, on a lunch break or in the evening. Reading short stories helps to establish a reading schedule or routine. Short stories provide ample opportunities to increase your knowledge about different cultures and different lifestyles.

    1. THE BOARDED WINDOW
    2. THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
    3. THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER
    4. THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
    5. THE TELL-TALE HEART
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOldiees Publishing
    Release dateMay 10, 2018
    ISBN9788828321996
    The Best American Horror Short Stories: Audio Edition : Selected American Short Stories

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      The Best American Horror Short Stories - Oldiees Publishing

      Title

      The Best American Horror Short Stories

      Timeless Collection of American Short Stories

      Preface

      Finding time for reading can often be a difficult task for many people with hectic and busy schedules. Committing oneself to a novel often involves a major investment of time and daily distractions, and tasks interfere with the ability to complete a novel in a timely fashion. Short stories are designed to be read in one sitting. As such, short stories can be easily read on the morning commute, on a lunch break or in the evening. Reading short stories helps to establish a reading schedule or routine. Short stories provide ample opportunities to increase your knowledge about different cultures and different lifestyles.

      AMERICAN SHORT STORIES COLLECTION

      The rise of the short story goes back to early 19th century American literature. The term short story was not used before 1885 when Brander Matthews used it in his Philosophy of the Short Story. Since then, Matthews' definition of the short story has been retrospectively applied to all short prose tales in American fiction since the early 19th century.

      First examples bearing the typical features of the genre were called tales. Mostly they were stories of incident focusing on the course and outcome of events. Most tales were written with the aim of being published in periodicals and were later often collected in book form.

      The leading proponents in the development of the American short story were Washington Irving (1783-1859), Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64), and Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49). Brander Matthews’s definition of the short story is based on Poe´s (who is often said to be the originator) literary theory on the short prose tale. In the second half of the 19th century, stories of realism was brought forth by Mark Twain (1835-1910), Jack London (1876-1916), Stephen Crane (1871-1900) and Amborse Bierce (1842-1914).

      Learn English as you read and listen to the short stories by famous American authors. Adaptations are written at the intermediate and upper-beginner level and are read one-third slower than regular English.

      1. THE BOARDED WINDOW

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      by Ambrose Bierce

      In eighteen thirty, only a few miles away from what is now the great city of Cincinnati, Ohio, lay a huge and almost endless forest.

      The area had

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