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2. Category:Short stories by H. P. Lovecraft - Wikipedia

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   The Temple (Lovecraft short story) The Terrible Old Man. The Thing on the Doorstep. Through the Gates of the Silver Key. Till A' the Seas. The Tomb (short story) The Transition of Juan Romero. The Tree on the Hill. The Tree (short story)

3. The Lottery - Wikipedia

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   "The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens. The lottery, its preparations, and its execution are all described in detail, though it is not ...

4. Short story - Wikipedia

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   Short stories date back to oral storytelling traditions which originally produced epics such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey. Oral narratives were often told in the form of rhyming or rhythmic verse, often including recurring sections or, in the case of Homer, Homeric epithets. Such stylistic devices often acted ...

5. The Machine Stops - Wikipedia

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   Publication date. November 1909. " The Machine Stops " is a science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that ...

6. The Oblong Box (short story) - Wikipedia

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   The Oblong Box" (not a story of crime as Poe told it) is based in part on the murder of the printer Samuel Adams by John C. Colt— which succeeded the death of Mary Rogers as the leading sensational topic for the American press. ^ Vierra, Clifford (1959). "Poe's 'Oblong Box': Factual Origins".

7. The Fun They Had - Wikipedia

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   1 December 1951. " The Fun They Had " is a science fiction story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in a children's newspaper in 1951 and was reprinted in the February 1954 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Earth Is Room Enough (1957), 50 Short Science Fiction Tales (1960), and The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973 ...