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Fantastic and uncanny tales

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Can Such Things Be?Ambrose Bierce · 1893A collection of Ambrose Bierce's short stories, first published in 1893, dealing with the supernatural, the strange, and the macabre. Its tales include ghosts, hauntings, mysterious deaths, and uncanny events, opening with a man who wakes in a forest to find himself in a nightmare of blood and apparitions.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
The Ape, the Idiot & Other PeopleW. C. Morrow · 1897A short story collection by W. C. Morrow, first published in 1897, gathering tales that originally appeared in magazines such as Lippincott's, the Overland Monthly, and San Francisco newspapers. Its stories include the title piece, about an escaped circus ape who befriends an asylum inmate.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
The Masque of the Red DeathEdgar Allan Poe · 1842A short Gothic tale by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1842, about Prince Prospero, who seals himself and his courtiers inside a walled abbey to escape a deadly plague and holds a magnificent masked ball while the Red Death ravages the world outside.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية