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• Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror Editors of Readers Digest, Arthur Conan Doyle, C. S. Forester, Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh, Guy de Maupassant, John Russell, Algernon Blackwood, John Collier, G. K. Chesterton, Truman Capote, Alfred Noyes, M. R. James, Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, Leslie Charteris, Lord Dunsany, Ellery Queen, Ambrose Bierce, Daphne du Maurier, Thomas Burke, Robert Barr, John Dickson Carr, André Maurois, Richard Middleton, H. P. Lovecraft, Cornell Woolrich, Gilbert Highet, Alfred McLelland Burrage, Ian Fleming, Gertrude Atherton, Carl Stephenson, W. W. Jacobs, George Hitchcock, William Hope Hodgson, Ross Macdonald, Rudyard Kipling, Georges Simenon, Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, H. G. Wells, Erle Stanley Gardner, Saki, Arthur C. Clarke 11.7 h
• The Penguin Book of Horror Stories J. A. Cuddon, Anonymous, James Hogg, Prosper Mérimée, Edgar Allan Poe, Honoré de Balzac, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Émile Zola, Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James, H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, Perceval Landon, John Russell, Franz Kafka, Alfred McLelland Burrage, E. F. Benson, Augustus Muir, John Metcalfe, William Fryer Harvey, William Faulkner, D. K. Broster, Lord Dunsany, Evelyn Waugh, Geoffrey Household, L. P. Hartley, Gerald Kersh, Carl Stephenson, Yvor Winters, Monica Dickens, Robert Graves, Ray Bradbury, Muriel Spark, John Lennon, Dawn Muscillo, Dorothy K. Haynes, Patricia Highsmith, Roald Dahl, Will F. Jenkins, J. N. Allan, Vilas Sarang 11.1 h
• The Outsider Stephen King 10.6 h
• Our Man in Havana Graham Greene 4.5 h
• The Vampyre John William Polidori 1.0 h
• The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories Algernon Blackwood 4.2 h
• Evil Under the Sun Agatha Christie 4.1 h
• Peril at End House Agatha Christie 4.1 h
• That Glimpse of Truth David Miller, Charles Dickens, Kate Chopin, Anton Chekhov, Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 17.4 h
• Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 2.6 h
• File No. 113 Annotated Émile Gaboriau 8.9 h
• Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens, Margeret Tarner, Adam Leverton 14.7 h

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Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror Editors of Readers Digest, Arthur Conan Doyle, C. S. Forester, Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh, Guy de Maupassant, John Russell, Algernon Blackwood, John Collier, G. K. Chesterton, Truman Capote, Alfred Noyes, M. R. James, Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, Leslie Charteris, Lord Dunsany, Ellery Queen, Ambrose Bierce, Daphne du Maurier, Thomas Burke, Robert Barr, John Dickson Carr, André Maurois, Richard Middleton, H. P. Lovecraft, Cornell Woolrich, Gilbert Highet, Alfred McLelland Burrage, Ian Fleming, Gertrude Atherton, Carl Stephenson, W. W. Jacobs, George Hitchcock, William Hope Hodgson, Ross Macdonald, Rudyard Kipling, Georges Simenon, Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, H. G. Wells, Erle Stanley Gardner, Saki, Arthur C. Clarke 11.7 h The Penguin Book of Horror Stories J. A. Cuddon, Anonymous, James Hogg, Prosper Mérimée, Edgar Allan Poe, Honoré de Balzac, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Émile Zola, Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James, H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, Perceval Landon, John Russell, Franz Kafka, Alfred McLelland Burrage, E. F. Benson, Augustus Muir, John Metcalfe, William Fryer Harvey, William Faulkner, D. K. Broster, Lord Dunsany, Evelyn Waugh, Geoffrey Household, L. P. Hartley, Gerald Kersh, Carl Stephenson, Yvor Winters, Monica Dickens, Robert Graves, Ray Bradbury, Muriel Spark, John Lennon, Dawn Muscillo, Dorothy K. Haynes, Patricia Highsmith, Roald Dahl, Will F. Jenkins, J. N. Allan, Vilas Sarang 11.1 h The Outsider Stephen King 10.6 h Our Man in Havana Graham Greene 4.5 h The Vampyre John William Polidori 1.0 h The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories Algernon Blackwood 4.2 h Evil Under the Sun Agatha Christie 4.1 h Peril at End House Agatha Christie 4.1 h That Glimpse of Truth David Miller, Charles Dickens, Kate Chopin, Anton Chekhov, Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 17.4 h Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 2.6 h File No. 113 Annotated Émile Gaboriau 8.9 h Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens, Margeret Tarner, Adam Leverton 14.7 h

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