[Ads-l] Quotes from Famous Short Stories

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

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> Date: December 1948
> Short Story: Knock
> Author: Fredric Brown
> Periodical: Thrilling Wonder Stories
> Note: I haven't verified this with hardcopy. This data is from Wikipedia.
> Caution-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock_(short_story)
> 
> [Begin excerpt]
> The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door...
> [End excerpt]

https://archive.org/stream/Thrilling_Wonder_Stories_v33n02_1948-12.Standard#page/n137/mode/2up/search/%22sat+alone+in+a+room%22



Add "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson _The New Yorker_ 6/26/1948
"Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon."
""It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."

Add "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe  _Godey’s Lady’s Book_ vol. XXXIII, no. 5, November 1846, pp. 216-218
"For the love of God, Montresor!"


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