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Synopsis. Two young men (the narrator Claude and his friend George) are lamenting their poverty and discussing the morning newspaper. In it, a society columnist named Lionel Pantaloon gossips about prominent citizens. The narrator gets a brilliant idea. He reckons the people Pantaloon insults would like to punch him in the nose, but they're ...
A plot twist is a literary technique that introduces a radical change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot in a work of fiction. [ 1 ] When it happens near the end of a story, it is known as a twist ending or surprise ending. [ 2 ] It may change the audience's perception of the preceding events, or introduce a new conflict that ...
Available at the Internet Archive. Publication. " An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge " (1890) is a short story by American writer and Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce, [1] described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature". [2] It was originally published by The San Francisco Examiner on July 13 ...
Lamb to the Slaughter. " Lamb to the Slaughter " is a 1954 short story by Roald Dahl. It was initially rejected, along with four other stories, by The New Yorker, but was published in Harper's Magazine in September 1953. [1] It was adapted for an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (AHP) that starred Barbara Bel Geddes and Harold J. Stone.
Quitters, Inc. " Quitters, Inc. " [1] is a short story by Stephen King published as part of his 1978 short story collection Night Shift. Unlike most other stories in this book, "Quitters, Inc." had been previously unpublished until February 1978 under Doubleday Publishing.
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
Surprise! Surprise! A Collection of Mystery Stories with Unexpected Endings is a collection of twelve short stories written by Agatha Christie published by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1965. [1] All of the stories in the collection have appeared in other short story collections. An updated version released in 1982 by Dell Publishing included ...
Publication date. 1907. "The Ransom of Red Chief" is a short story by O. Henry first published in the July 6, 1907 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. It follows two men who kidnap and demand a ransom for a wealthy man's son. Eventually, the men are overwhelmed by the boy's spoiled and hyperactive behavior, so they pay his father to take him back.