Fireside Reader

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The bottle imp / Robert Louis Stevenson -- An end to dreams / Stephen Vincent Benét -- [Parson's pleasure](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8318648W) / Roald Dahl -- The bride comes to yellow sky / Stephen Crane -- The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- The foster portfolio / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- The poor relation's story / Charles Dickens -- The real thing / Henry James -- The hostage / C.S. Forester -- Rip van Winkle / Washington Irving -- The girls in their summer dresses / Irwin Shaw -- The street that got mislaid / Patrick Waddington -- A piece of steak / Jack London -- The secret ingredient / Paul Gallico -- The hawk / Liam O'Flaherty -- The apprentice / Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- A sick call / Morley Callaghan -- A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins -- The loss / Gillian Tindall -- The mouse / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- Tickets, please / D.H. Lawrence -- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells -- The gifts of war / Margaret Drabble -- The skedule / H.H. Wilson -- Well I'm -! / G.E.M. Skues -- The weather breeder / Merrill Denison -- In and out of the houses / Elizabeth Taylor -- [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner -- The test / Brendan Gill -- The hammer of God / G.K. Chesterton -- The pocketbook game / Alice Childress -- The wedding gift / Thomas Raddall -- [The adventure of the speckled band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262561W) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)/ Edgar Allan Poe -- The boy who drew cats / Lafcadio Ahearn -- The little governess / Katherine Mansfield -- Running wolf / Algernon Blackwood -- The peach stone / Paul Horgan -- Red / W. Somerset Maugham -- The fiery wooing of Mordred / P.G. Wodehouse -- A sunrise on the veld / Doris Lessing -- The ghost / Richard Hughes -- The birds / Daphne du Maurier -- The story of the widow's son / Mary Lavin -- The train from Rhodesia / Nadine Gordimer -- Dygartsbush / Walter D. Edmonds -- The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter -- Winter's morning / Len Deighton -- The lady on the gray / John Collier -- The wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark.

subjects: American Short stories,  English Short stories,  short stories,  fiction,  American fiction,  American Horror tales,  American literature,  Children's fiction,  fear,  horror,  Horror stories,  pendulums,  Spanish Inquisition,  amorality,  Anglo-Saxons,  aristocracy,  detective fiction,  Juvenile audience,  locked-room mysteries,  Mystery and detective stories,  Drama,  Private investigators,  Children's fiction Chippendale Commodes,  English language,  textbooks for foreign speakers,  Readers,  SUBJECTS tradition,  change,  death,  allegory,  nonlinear narrative,  gentleman's agreements,  recluses,  Mentally ill women

People: Father Time,  Sherlock Holmes,  John H. Watson,  Stroke Moran,  Helen Stoner,  Grimesby Roylott,  Cyril Boggis,  Claud,  Bert,  Rummins,  Emily Grierson,  Homer Barron,  Mr. Grierson,  Tobe,  Colonel Sartoris

Places: Toledo,  England,  Calcutta,  India,  Surrey,  Chelsea,  London,  Buckinghamshire,  Jefferson,  Mississippi,  Yoknapatawpha County

Times: Antebellum era