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  2. Weird Tales - Wikipedia

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    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 went on ...

  3. The Landlady (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Plot. Billy Weaver is a seventeen-year-old youth who has travelled by train from London to Bath to start a new job. Looking for lodgings, he comes across a boarding-house and feels strangely compelled by its sign saying "Bed and Breakfast". Through the window, he notices a parrot in a cage and a sleeping dachshund on the floor.

  4. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Hemingway hunting on safari, 1934 "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway first published in August 1936, in Esquire magazine. It was republished in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories in 1938, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories in 1961, and is included in The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca VigĂ­a Edition (1987).

  5. The Scarlet Ibis - Wikipedia

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    Publication date. July 1960. " The Scarlet Ibis " is a short story written by James Hurst. [1] It was first published in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1960 [2] and won the "Atlantic First" award. [3] The story has become a classic of American literature, and has been frequently republished in high school anthologies and other collections.

  6. The Reluctant Dragon (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The Reluctant Dragon (short story) " The Reluctant Dragon " is an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame, originally published as a chapter in his book Dream Days. It is Grahame's most famous short story, arguably better known than Dream Days itself or the related 1895 collection The Golden Age. [1] It can be seen as a prototype to most ...

  7. Skin (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Skin (short story) " Skin " is a macabre short story written by author Roald Dahl. It was first published in the May 17, 1952 issue of The New Yorker, [1] and was later featured in the collections Someone Like You, published in 1953, and Skin and Other Stories, published in 2000. It was adapted for television as part of Anglia Television 's ...

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