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  2. Weird Tales - Wikipedia

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    OCLC. 55045234. Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in late 1922. The first issue, dated March 1923, appeared on newsstands February 18. [1] The first editor, Edwin Baird, printed early work by H. P. Lovecraft, Seabury Quinn, and Clark Ashton Smith, all of whom ...

  3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story) - Wikipedia

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    May 27, 1922. " The Curious Case of Benjamin Button " is a short story about a man who ages in reverse, from senescence to infancy, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in Collier's Magazine on May 27, 1922, with the cover and illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg. It was subsequently anthologized in Fitzgerald's 1922 book ...

  4. List of unusual deaths - Wikipedia

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    The death of Aeschylus, killed by a turtle dropped onto his head by a falcon, illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini [1]. This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.

  5. Wikipedia:Unusual articles - Wikipedia

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    The true story starting with a stern captain and a lustful crew on a Royal Navy ship and ending with the British-Polynesian Seventh-day Adventist culture of the Pitcairn Islands. Plenty of drama in-between. Order of the Pug: A fraternal order that existed for Roman Catholics in Bavaria in the 18th century. George Psalmanazar

  6. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Wikipedia

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    The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a novel by Rachel Joyce, published in 2012. Joyce's first novel, it was longlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, [1] and Joyce won the UK National Book Award for New Writer of the Year for the book. [2] It was also the best-selling hardback book in the UK from a new novelist in 2012.

  7. The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street - Wikipedia

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    A short-story version was published in Stories from The Twilight Zone and ends with a race of two-headed aliens moving into Maple Street. The episode served as a major influence on science fiction in the decades that followed.

  8. War Crimes (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    0702214167. Preceded by. The Fat Man in History. Followed by. The Fat Man in History and Other Stories. War Crimes (1979) is a collection of short stories by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was published by University of Queensland Press in 1979. [1] The collection includes 13 original stories by the author.

  9. List of science fiction short stories - Wikipedia

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    Critical Mass (Arthur C. Clarke short story) Arthur C. Clarke: Lilliput: 1949 Crouch End (short story) Stephen King: Cthulhu Mythos anthology: 1980 Crusade (short story) Arthur C. Clarke: The Wind from the Sun: 1968 Dagon (short story) H. P. Lovecraft: The Vagrant: 1919 Dance of the Yellow-Breasted Luddites: William Shunn: Tor Books: 2000 ...

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