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Adventures in Reading -- Volume 1-- Short Stories

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  • 1963 first published
  • 203 pages
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Evan Lodge, Marjorie Braymer and B.J. Chute's Adventures in Reading -- Volume 1-- Short Stories (1963) is a gothic fiction and horror story collection. Key subjects include crime, first-person narrative, Homicide and Hyperesthesia.

At about 203 pages, most readers finish it in 3–4 hours.

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • English Short stories
  • American Short stories
  • 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

Quick answers

Who wrote Adventures in Reading -- Volume 1-- Short Stories?

Adventures in Reading -- Volume 1-- Short Stories was written by Evan Lodge, Marjorie Braymer and B.J. Chute and first published in 1963.

What genre is Adventures in Reading -- Volume 1-- Short Stories?

It is usually shelved as Gothic Fiction and Horror.

How long is Adventures in Reading -- Volume 1-- Short Stories?

The median edition has 203 pages, about 3–4 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Adventures in Reading -- Volume 1-- Short Stories?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales [15 stories], Short Stories (Cask of Amontillado / Gold-Bug / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Some Words with a Mummy / Tell-Tale Heart) and Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [adaptation].

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