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The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler, anonymously written 1939 book which claims that Adolf Hitler died in 1938 and was subsequently impersonated by look-alikes. Go Ask Alice, now known to have been written by Beatrice Sparks. A Woman in Berlin, an anonymous diary detailing experiences of a German woman as Germany is defeated in World War II.
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories is a collection of horror stories, poems and urban legends retold for children by Alvin Schwartz and illustrator Dirk Zimmer. It was published as part of the I Can Read! series in 1984. In 2017 the book was re-released with illustrations by Spanish freelance illustrator Victor Rivas. [1]
Murder in the Dark is a collection of short fiction by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1983. Some of the pieces were previously published. [ 1 ] The 27 pieces range over a variety of styles, including fictionalized autobiography, parables, travel stories, satires and prose poems.
"No, it won't" "Age cannot wither" "Well, hardly ever" "Male chauvinist pig" "Too good to use" "Disillusionment" "Watch out behind you" "Now we'll never know" "Never say die" "Scarcely worth it" "Bravo!" "Like this, please" "Making beautiful music" "That's the big dipper, my dear" "No safety in numbers" "Last laugh" "Now hear this!" "Insult ...
The poem is often attributed to anonymous or incorrect sources, such as the Hopi and Navajo tribes. [1]: 423 The most notable claimant was Mary Elizabeth Frye (1905–2004), who often handed out xeroxed copies of the poem with her name attached. She was first wrongly cited as the author of the poem in 1983. [4]
The third and final book contains 25 stories, including: [12] a story of a man who tries to escape from Death; ghost stories, including a vanishing hitchhiker story, as well as a story of a black dog; a retelling of the legend of the death of Oleg the Prophet; a story of an adult-sized doll that comes to life.
Short-Lived Creatures; Echo; Grain of the Wood; Of a Private History; This Is the Poem I Made Then; I Go Out the Door; The Man Who Came Back from the Lunar Colony; 5 a.m. Declaration; Myrtle Beach; Elves; Light and Shade; Rapunzel Summons the Prince; In Touch; My Son in Love; Barbarians; Browning, Cummings, Tennyson; To One Not Poisoned Yet; To ...
Dark Avenues (or Dark Alleys, Тёмные аллеи). New York, 1943. New York, 1943. The short story (and the collection) took its title from two lines of a poem by Nikolai Ogaryov 's poem "An Ordinary Story" (Обыкновенная повесть): "Nearby the scarlet dog rose was blooming; / There was an alley of dark lime trees ."