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Short Story, Adapted Work, Written Work, Published Work, Work of Fiction, Award-Winning Work"Enemy Mine" is a science fiction novella by Barry B. Longyear. It first appeared in the September 1979 issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, later collected by Longyear in Manifest Destiny (1980). In 1980 it won the Hugo Award for Best Novella and the...
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Short Story, Work of Fiction, Published Work, Written Work"The Great Simoleon Caper" is a short story by Neal Stephenson that appeared in TIME Domestic SPECIAL ISSUE, Spring 1995 Volume 145, No. 12 (March 1, 1995). It deals with concepts familiar to Stephenson's fans: encryption, digital currency and distributed republic. It...
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Short Story, Adapted Work, Written WorkThe Body: Fall from Innocence is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in the 1982 collection Different Seasons. It was adapted into the acclaimed film Stand By Me in 1986. Directed by Rob Reiner, it stars River Phoenix as Chris and Wil Wheaton as Gordon. ...
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Short Story, Adapted Work, Written WorkRita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (1982) is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in Different Seasons. The novella was adapted for the screen in the film The Shawshank Redemption. The story of Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption begins in 1948 when...
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Short Story, Adapted Work, Written WorkSummer of Corruption: Apt Pupil (1982) is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in Different Seasons (1982). Apt Pupil consists of 29 chapters, many (but far from all) of which are headed by a month. The story takes place in a fictional suburb of San Diego,...
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Film, Short Story, Fictional Character, Written Work"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving published in 1819, as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it was part of a collection of stories entitled The Sketch...
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Short Story, Published Work, Work of Fiction, Written Work"The Premature Burial" is a horror short story on the theme of being buried alive, written by Edgar Allan Poe and published in 1844 in The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. Fear of being buried alive was common in this period and Poe was taking advantage of the public...
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Short Story, Work of Fiction, Published Work, Written Work"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murder an old man with a vulture eye. The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by cutting it...
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Short Story, Published Work, Work of Fiction, Written Work"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. The story was first published in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine in September 1839. It was slightly revised before being included in a collection of his fiction entitled Tales of the Grotesque...
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Short Story, Work of Fiction, Published Work, Written Work"The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts. The narrator of the story is deemed guilty for an...
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Short Story, Published Work, Work of Fiction, Written Work"The Black Cat" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843 edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." In both, a murderer carefully...
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Short Story, Work of Fiction, Published Work, Written Work"The Oval Portrait" is short story by Edgar Allan Poe involving the disturbing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau. It is one of his shortest stories, filling only two pages in its initial publication in 1842 The tale begins with an injured narrator...
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Short Story, Work of Fiction, Published Work, Written Work"William Wilson" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years outside of London. The tale follows the theme of the doppelgänger and is written in a style based on rationality. It was first published in 1839, later appeared in the...
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Short Story, Work of Fiction, Published Work, Written Work"The Devil in the Belfry" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in 1839. It is a satirical short story, making fun of the United States President Martin Van Buren and his election methods, by ridiculing the inhabitants of Vondervotteimittis,...
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Short Story, Work of Fiction, Published Work, Written Work"Ligeia" is an early short story written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1838. The story follows an unnamed narrator and his wife Ligeia, a beautiful and intelligent raven-haired woman. She recites "The Conqueror Worm" before she dies and suggests that life is...
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Short Story, Quotation Source, Written Work"The Gold-Bug" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, set on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina involving deciphering a secret message and finding buried treasure. The story was first published in the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper in June 1843 after Poe had won a...
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Short Story, Published Work, Work of Fiction, Written Work"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. Today, it is considered the first detective story. Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who...
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Short Story, Published Work, Work of Fiction, Written Work"The Mystery of Marie Roget", often subtitled A Sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe written in 1842. This is the first murder mystery based on the details of a real crime. It first appeared in Snowden's Ladies' Companion in...
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Short Story, Written Work"The Balloon-Hoax" is the title now used for a newspaper article written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844. Originally presented as a true story, it detailed European Monck Mason's trip across the Atlantic Ocean in only three days in a hot air balloon. It was...
