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Des singes fument et boivent au bar. Photo stéréoscopique de James Hurst, 1870
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Des singes fument et boivent au bar. Photo stéréoscopique de James Hurst, 1870
The Scarlet Ibis, James Hurst
Reading Short Stories for Free Online
(a constantly updated list)
"A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J. D. Salinger
"Children of the Corn" by Stephen King
"Herbert West: Reanimator" by H. P. Lovecraft
"How to Get Back to the Forest" by Sofia Samatar
"One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts" by Shirley Jackson
"Premium Harmony" by Stephen King
"Signs and Symbols" by Vladimir Nabokov
"The Body Snatcher" by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Boogeyman" by Stephen King
"The Call of Cthulhu" by H. P. Lovecraft
"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Cathedral" by Raymond Carver
"The Door in the Wall" by H. G. Wells
"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield
"The Human Chair" by Edogawa Ranpo
"The Haunter of the Dark" by H. P. Lovecraft
"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
"The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
"The New Dress" by Virginia Woolf
"The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury
"The Possibility of Evil" by Shirley Jackson
"The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst
"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
"The Summer People" by Shirley Jackson
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The short story "The Scarlet Ibis" seriously fucked me up. I saw one of the bird at a zoo once and disassociated for a bit. Every now and then the story just hits me out of nowhere. I didn't even understand what happened when I read it. The teacher had to explain. I hate how I can handle so much horror and tragedy (in media) but then something random traumatizes me.
I still haven’t forgiven my English classes in high school for laughing at me when I cried over The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst and To Build a Fire by Jack London.
Both stories are about the fragility of human life and how fleeting we are.
some pics from set of MotA!
“ They named him William Armstrong, which was like tying a big tail on a small kite. Such a name sounds good only on a tombstone. “
The Scarlet Ibis, James Hurst
