 | The Haunted Doll's House: and Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) by M.R. James
Buy used from: £0.01 Truly horrifying. I do not advise reading before going to bed. That is, if you're a big girly.
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 | Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jorge Borges
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £3.83 Also contains essays by Borges, interesting from an academic viewpoint.
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 | Exile and the Kingdom: "The Adulterous Woman"; "The Renegade"; "The Silent Men"; "The Guest"; "The Artist" (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy used from: £4.09 Solid Camus. The Renegade, in particular, is very good.
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 | Metamorphosis and others stories by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £0.31 |
 | Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
Buy used from: £4.24 |
 | Little Birds (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anais Nin
Buy new: £5.79 / Used from: £1.06 They're dirty, but they're very well written. Evocative of a time now lost and highly autobiographical.
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 | La Symphonie Pastorale: AND Isabelle (Penguin Modern Classics) by Andre Gide
Buy used from: £19.87 Not really short stories. Nonetheless, the two stories are very small.
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 | Men without Women (Arrow Classic) by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £4.27 / Used from: £0.01 Stories about men, unsoftened by women's influence. American, powerful, masculine, and as good as his novels.
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 | The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.50 |
 | Cathedral by Raymond Carver
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.68 All the stories in Cathedral are different; some funny, some hauntingly sad. Each has its own individual and curious power.
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 | Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics) by Joyce James
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 A definitive group portrait. The book is rooted in an accurate apprehension of the detail of Dublin life.
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![The Murders in the Rue Morgue [The Dupin Tales]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513GGTT8RTL._SL75_.jpg) | The Murders in the Rue Morgue [The Dupin Tales] by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £0.19 Dupin, du vin, et du boursin.
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 | Revenge of the Lawn: Stories, 1962-1970 ("Rebel Inc." Classics) by Richard Brautigan
Buy used from: £6.00 Hippy stuff. Funny and emotional. Perhaps, emotionally funny?
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 | The Wavering Knife by Brian K. Evenson
Buy new: £12.95 / Used from: £9.98 Harrowing. An inheritor of Borges and Poe.
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