Books Set in the 1600s
Fiction set in the 1600s, mostly demons & devils, horror and gothic fiction. The most-read are Young Goodman Brown (1993), 40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition (2021) and The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition (1952).
This list collects 52 books in this collection by 38 authors, published between 1952 and 2021. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
Young Goodman Brown
Nathaniel Hawthorne
40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition
Beverly Lawn, Joanne Diaz
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The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer
Great American Short Stories
Wallace Stegner, Mary Stegner
Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition
X. J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult
Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg
The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe
Literature, The Human Experience, Reading and Writing--Shorter Ninth Edition
Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz
Fiction
R.S. Gwynn, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Rinehart Book of Short Stories
Clarence Lee Cline, C. L. Cline
The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature--Eighth Edition
Michael Meyer, Margaret Atwood
The Bedford Introduction to Literature--Reading, Thinking, Writing--Sixth Edition
Michael Meyer, Margaret Atwood
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition
Richard Bausch, R. V. Cassill
Best Short Stories -- Advanced Level
Raymond Harris, Katherine Mansfield
The Short Story
Beverly Lawn, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe
The Evil Image
Patricia L. Skarda, Nora Jaffe
Bedtime Stories
Diana Secker Tesdell, Nathaniel Hawthorne
My Favorite Horror Story
Mike Baker, Martin H. Greenberg
La Fille de Rappaccini et autres contes fantastiques
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Octavio Paz
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
Cochrane, James., J. Cochrane
Great American Short Stories
Paul Negri, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Great American Short Stories
Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Short Fiction, Classic and Contemporary -- Second Edition
Charles H. Bohner, Alice Adams
The Story and its Writer -- Third Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe
Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories
Burton Raffel, Professor Burton Raffel
The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction -- Fourth Edition
Jon C. Stott, Raymond E. Jones
Chilling Horror Short Stories
Laura Bulbeck, Ambrose Bierce
Exploring Literature -- Fourth Edition
Frank Madden, Kate Chopin
Twelve Short Stories
Marvin Magalaner, Edmond Volpe
Short Stories
Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Perrine's Story and Structure--Twelfth Edition
Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson
Literature - Structure, sound, and sense - Fourth Edition
Laurence Perrine, Thomas R. Arp
Fiction 100
James H. Pickering, Fiódor Dostoievski
The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Fourth Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe
Classic Horror Stories
Honoré de Balzac, Ambrose Bierce
The Norton Introduction to Fiction--Fourth Edition
Jerome Beaty, Spencer Holst
Fiction, A Pocket Anthology--Fifth Edition
R.S. Gwynn, Nathaniel Hawthorne
America's Literature
James David Hart, James D. Hart
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
R. V. Cassill, Ernest Hemingway
Great American Short Stories from Hawthorne to Hemingway
Corinne Demas, Nathaniel Hawthorne
40 Short Stories--Fifth Edition
Beverly Lawn, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fictions--Second Edition
Joseph F. Trimmer, C. Wade Jennings
Literature--second Edition
James H. Pickering, Jeffrey D. Hoeper
Spectral Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe
The Realm of Fiction - 61 Short Stories
James B. Hall, Fiódor Dostoievski
The Literature of the American Renaissance
Rex J. Burbank, Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Best New England stories
Charles Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg