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"The Tell-Tale Heart" is often considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and is one of Poe's best known short stories. The specific motivation for murder, aside from the narrator's hatred of the old man's eye, the relationship between narrator and old man, the gender of the narrator, and other details are left unclear.
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“The Murder” is a work of short fiction by John Steinbeck originally published in The North American Review, April 1934. The story was first collected in The Long Valley (1938) by Viking Press. [1] [2] “The Murder” was the first of Steinbeck's works to win a national award: the 1934 O. Henry prize for short fiction. [3] [4] [5]
Agatha Christie, "The Kidnapped Prime Minister" (1924) – Hercule Poirot short story about the kidnapping of a fictional British prime minister, which includes a deliberate attempt on his life; Ernest Hemingway, "The Killers" (1927) Robert A. Heinlein, Revolt in 2100 (serialized in 1940, published as a book in 1953)
After-Dinner Story is a 1944 short story collection by American crime writer Cornell Woolrich under the pseudonym William Irish.It comprises six stories, and includes two of Woolrich's best known works, novella Marihuana and Rear Window (originally published in Dime Detective Magazine under the title "It Had to be Murder"), [1] which was made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954.
"Murder by Pixel" was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette of 2022, [1] the 2023 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, [2] and the 2023 Ignyte Award for Best Novelette. [ 3 ] Locus called it "a skeleton of a story that exists to support a significant amount of real-world research", but emphasized that it is "[a]n intense and interesting ...
Murder in the Dark is a collection of short fiction by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1983. Some of the pieces were previously published. [ 1 ] The 27 pieces range over a variety of styles, including fictionalized autobiography, parables, travel stories, satires and prose poems.
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" is a science fiction short story by American writer Alfred Bester. It was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in October 1958. It has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and German, and has been reprinted nine times, most recently in Virtual Unrealities (1997). [1]