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18 Best Stories

  • 1969 first published
  • 287 pages
  • 5 editions

18 Best Stories is a 1969 gothic fiction and horror novel by Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent Price and Chandler Brossard. Characters include Ernest Valdemar, Roderick Usher and Madeline Usher. Readers will find themes of crime, first-person narrative, Homicide and Hyperesthesia.

It has been published in 5 editions.

At about 287 pages, most readers finish it in 5–6 hours.

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Tropes

Characters

Subjects

  • American Horror tales
  • Children's fiction
  • Classic Literature
  • Crime
  • Crime fiction
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • First-person narrative
  • Gothic fiction
  • Homicide
  • Horror
  • Horror fiction
  • Horror stories
  • Horror tales
  • Hyperesthesia
  • Murder
  • Premature burial

Quick answers

Who wrote 18 Best Stories?

18 Best Stories was written by Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent Price and Chandler Brossard and first published in 1969.

What genre is 18 Best Stories?

It is usually shelved as Gothic Fiction, Horror and Dragon Fiction.

How long is 18 Best Stories?

The median edition has 287 pages, about 5–6 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to 18 Best Stories?

Readers who like it often enjoy Selected English Short Stories (Nineteenth Century), Great American Short Stories and The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition.

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