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  2. The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl - Wikipedia

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    0-7181-3545-8. The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl is a 1991 short story collection for adults by Roald Dahl. [1] The collection containing tales of macabre malevolence comprises many of Dahl's stories seen in the television series Tales of the Unexpected and previously collected in Someone Like You (1953), Kiss, Kiss (1960), Twenty-Nine ...

  3. It's a Good Life - Wikipedia

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    Life. " It's a Good Life " is a short story by American writer Jerome Bixby, written in 1953. In 1970, the Science Fiction Writers of America selected it for The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, as one of the 20 best short stories in science fiction published prior to the Nebula Award. The story was first published in Star Science ...

  4. Sunspring - Wikipedia

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    Sunspring. Sunspring is a 2016 experimental science fiction short film entirely written by an artificial intelligence bot using neural networks. [1] It was conceived by BAFTA -nominated filmmaker Oscar Sharp and NYU AI researcher Ross Goodwin [2][3] and produced by film production company, End Cue along with Allison Friedman and Andrew Swett.

  5. Switch Bitch - Wikipedia

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    Switch Bitch (1974) is a book of adult short stories by British writer Roald Dahl.Four stories, originally published in Playboy between 1965 and 1974, [1] are collected. They are linked by themes of rape by deception: in each one, some major act of cunning, cruelty, or hedonism underpins the sexuality.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Cat Person - Wikipedia

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    The New Yorker. Publication date. December 2017. " Cat Person " is a short story by Kristen Roupenian that was first published in December 2017 in The New Yorker before going viral online. [1][2] The BBC described the short story as "being shared widely online as social media users discuss how much it relates to modern-day dating".

  8. The Lottery - Wikipedia

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    Publication date. June 26, 1948. " The Lottery " is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. [a] 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.

  9. Category:Short stories adapted into films - Wikipedia

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    The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax. Dr. Heidegger's Experiment. The Doctor's Case. The Door in the Wall (short story) Un drame au bord de la mer. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man. The Dreams in the Witch House. The Duel (short story) The Dunwich Horror.