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Demons & DevilsHorrorCircus & Carnival

40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition

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  • 2021 first published
  • 470 pages
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40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition is a 2021 demon fiction and horror novel by Beverly Lawn, Joanne Diaz and Nathaniel Hawthorne. It takes readers to New England and Salem Village in the 1600s. It features Goodman Brown, Faith Brown and Goody Cloyse. It deals with Satanism, puritans, Catechism and Devil.

87 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list.

At about 470 pages, most readers finish it in 8–9 hours.

About 40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition

Contains: [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [The cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [An occurrence at owl creek bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W)/ Ambrose Bierce -- [The story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin -- The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- [Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) / James Joyce -- Kew gardens / Virginia Woolf -- A hunger artist / Franz Kafka -- Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield -- [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen -- The swimmer / John Cheever-- Battle royal / Ralph Ellison -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Where are you going, where have you been?
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Era

Characters

Subjects

  • Satanism
  • Short story
  • Puritans
  • Catechism
  • Devil
  • Children's fiction
  • Classic Literature
  • Crime
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Horror stories
  • Revenge
  • Juvenile audience
  • Civil war
  • Hanging
  • American Civil War
  • Confederate States of America

Quick answers

Who wrote 40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition?

40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition was written by Beverly Lawn, Joanne Diaz and Nathaniel Hawthorne and first published in 2021.

What genre is 40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition?

It is usually shelved as Demons & Devils, Horror and Circus & Carnival.

How long is 40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition?

The median edition has 470 pages, about 8–9 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to 40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition?

Readers who like it often enjoy My Favorite Horror Story, Literature, The Human Experience, Reading and Writing--Shorter Ninth Edition and The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition.

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