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  2. The Oblong Box (short story) - Wikipedia

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    NBC Short Story aired a dramatic reading of "The Oblong Box" in the 1950s. It is available at archive.org. [15] A 1969 film directed by Gordon Hessler starring Vincent Price carries the name The Oblong Box. [16] It is a loose adaptation of Poe's story. [17]

  3. The Shepherd - Wikipedia

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    In 2018, for the 50th Anniversary special of As it Happens [2] Carol Off, Michael Enright, and Tom Power celebrated the tradition of reading The Shepherd by reading lines from the story. On 14 December 2014, actor Nigel Anthony performed an original adaptation by Amber Barnfather of The Shepherd , with music and sound effects, at St Clement ...

  4. Marionettes, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    "Marionettes, Inc." is a short story by American writer Ray Bradbury, originally published in Startling Stories (March 1949) and later reprinted in his collection of short stories The Illustrated Man. In the story, Bradbury conjures a conflict between man and machine and depicts the human dependence on technology, a common theme for Bradbury's ...

  5. Nightfall (Asimov novelette and novel) - Wikipedia

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    "Nightfall" [1] is a 1941 science fiction short story by the American writer Isaac Asimov about the coming of darkness to the people of a planet ordinarily illuminated by sunlight at all times. It was adapted into a novel with Robert Silverberg in 1990. The short story has appeared in many anthologies and six collections of Asimov stories.

  6. Chronicles of Avonlea - Wikipedia

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    Chronicles of Avonlea is a collection of short stories by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery, related to the Anne of Green Gables series. It features an abundance of stories relating to the fictional Canadian village of Avonlea, and was first published in 1912.

  7. The Story of the Amulet - Wikipedia

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    The Story of the Amulet profits greatly from Nesbit's deep research into ancient civilisations in general and that of ancient Egypt in particular. The book is dedicated to Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, the translator of the Egyptian Book of the Dead and Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities of the British Museum, with whom she met to discuss the history of the ancient Near East while writing ...

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