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  2. 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 ...

  3. The Wife's Story - Wikipedia

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    "The Wife's Story" is a short story written by Ursula K. Le Guin. Plot summary [ edit ] Written in a vernacular first-person narrative , the title character (who is eventually revealed to be a wolf) describes her beloved spouse and their idyllic family life in the past tense, except during the new moon, when he mysteriously disappeared.

  4. 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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Medusa's Coil - Wikipedia

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    Medusa's Coil. " Medusa's Coil " is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop. It was first published in Weird Tales magazine in January 1939, two years after Lovecraft's death. The story concerns the son of an American plantation owner who brings back from Paris a new wife. It mixes elements of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos with the ...

  7. 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.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Mimsy Were the Borogoves - Wikipedia

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    Publication date. February 1943. " Mimsy Were the Borogoves " is a science fiction short story by Lewis Padgett (a pseudonym of American writers Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore ), originally published in the February 1943 issue of Astounding Science Fiction Magazine. [1] It was judged by the Science Fiction Writers of America to be among the best ...

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