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A structural exploration of American short fiction that reveals how the teller shapes the tale. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Points of View.
- contemplative
- shifting
- intellectual
- 01
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
James E. Miller Jr.
A curated journey through the eerie, dramatic, and foundational shadows of classic American storytelling.
- 02
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Ambrose Bierce · 2003
A masterclass in psychological suspense that stretches a single, fatal second into a desperate lifetime of hope.
- 03
Can Such Things Be? [24 stories]
Ambrose Bierce · 1893
A collection of macabre tales that peel back the veil of reality to reveal the chilling and the uncanny.
- 04
Sterling Stories
Yvonne Collioud Sisko
A kaleidoscopic journey through classic literary landscapes, blending gothic dread with poignant, ironic twists.
- 05
The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories (Black Cat / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
A feverish, claustrophobic plunge into the darkest and most paranoid corners of the human psyche.
- 06
Short Stories (Cask of Amontillado / Gold-Bug / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Some Words with a Mummy / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
A feverish descent into the darkest, most obsessive corners of the human psyche, wrapped in velvet-heavy prose.
- 07
Reasons to live
Amy Hempel · 1985
A masterclass in saying everything by saying almost nothing, wrapping profound grief in sharp, brittle wit.
- 08
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace · 2001
A dizzying, darkly hilarious plunge into the neurotic, self-justifying minds of profoundly alienated people.
- 09
Angry candy
Harlan Ellison · 1988
A visionary collection of speculative tales that traverses bleak expanses of space and time to unearth a resilient faith in the future.
- 10
Scary Stories
Barry Moser
A chilling descent into the shadows of the human psyche, guided by the masters of the macabre.
- 11
Magic for beginners
Kelly Link
A surreal, pop-culture-infused fever dream where the mundane and the magical bleed seamlessly into one another.
- 12
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume One
Robert Silverberg · 2003
A masterclass in speculative thought that captures the awe, terror, and boundless imagination of the golden age of science fiction.
![Cover of The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6699609-M.jpg)
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