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  The Cask of Amontillado

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  The Black Cat

  One of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories.
  
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  South of the Border, West of the Sun

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  The Island of Dr. Moreau

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  Story of the Eye

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  The Signalman

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  The Nose (Penguin Little Black Classics, #46)

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  The Fall

  Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model ci…

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  The Canterville Ghost

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  Happening

  In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she c…

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  Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories

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  L'altra figlia

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  Death with Interruptions

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  The Years

  Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008.
  
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  The Tell-Tale Heart

  A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man.
  
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  Sea Prayer

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  Pedro Páramo

  A classic of Mexican modern literature about a haunted village.
  
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