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Great Short Stories

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  • 1950 first published
  • 536 pages
  • 2 editions
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Great Short Stories is a 1950 gothic fiction and horror novel by Wilbur Lang Schramm, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. It takes readers to London and Baker Street in 1890. Characters include Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson and Jabez Wilson. Key subjects include banks, Encyclopædia Britannica, pawnbrokers and police inspectors.

It runs to roughly 536 pages — 9–10 hours of reading at an average pace.

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Era

Characters

Subjects

  • Banks
  • Detective fiction
  • Encyclopædia Britannica
  • Pawnbrokers
  • Police inspectors
  • Red hair
  • Mystery and detective stories
  • Children's fiction
  • Manners and customs
  • Short story
  • American Horror tales
  • Classic Literature
  • Crime
  • Crime fiction
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • First-person narrative

Quick answers

Who wrote Great Short Stories?

Great Short Stories was written by Wilbur Lang Schramm, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne and first published in 1950.

What genre is Great Short Stories?

It is usually shelved as Gothic Fiction and Horror.

How long is Great Short Stories?

The median edition has 536 pages, about 9–10 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Great Short Stories?

Readers who like it often enjoy The World of Mystery Fiction, 21 Great Stories and The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction -- Second Edition.

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