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In Ray Bradbury’s vision, reality was a fabric so delicate that the crushing of a butterfly could ripple up through 65 million years to change the results of an election. Bradbury painted that scenario in…

This shot story shows Poe’s contribution to the genre of Dark Romanticism. Poe basically created the template for the detective story genre, emulated by the likes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. At Paris, just after…

This horror short story introduces mister Hawver who proceeds to tell his friend – doctor Frayley – about an experience in which he believes helps to argue that there is something more to the supernatural than the…

Adventure short story centers on a plantation owner called Leiningen and his stubborn refusal to abandon his plantation in the face of a seemingly unstoppable mass of army ants. “Unless they alter their course and there’s…

This, in these days, already famous and even filmed adventure short story features a big-game hunter from New York who becomes shipwrecked on an isolated island in the Caribbean and is hunted by a Russian aristocrat.…

This adventure short story introduced us to Falmer and Thone who are orchid hunters, exploring a tributary of the Orinoco. When Thone falls ill, Falmer continues on to a site where rumor says a treasure was…