Category Archives: Short Stories
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (version 2)
Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes, a fictional character of the late 19th and...
The Peterkin Papers
Author(s): Lucretia P. Hale The Peterkins were a lovable but comically inept family that possess...
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Author(s): Mark Twain The town of Hadleyburg had the reputation of being the most honest...
The Lock and Key Library
Author(s): Various A collection of classic mystery and detective stories, collected and edited by Julian...
The Man Who Would Be King
Author(s): Rudyard Kipling The Man Who Would Be King tells the story of two British...
The Jacket (or Star Rover)
Author(s): Jack London This book by Jack London was published under the name of “The...
The Ruby and the Caldron
Author(s): Anna Katharine Green A valuable ruby is lost during a disturbance in the snow...
The Lady’s Museum, Volume 1
Author(s): Charlotte Lennox Published in 11 issues between 1760 and 1761 and believed largely to...
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1
Author(s): Various The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early...
The King in Yellow (part 2)
Author(s): Robert W. Chambers Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late...
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories
Author(s): Mark Twain “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg” is a piece of short fiction by...
The Lady’s Museum, Volume 2
Author(s): Charlotte Lennox Published in 11 issues between 1760 and 1761 and believed largely to...
The Lane that had no Turning, and Other Tales concerning the People of Pontiac
Author(s): Gilbert Parker This is a collection of short stories by Gilbert Parker. Parker was...
The Little Gray Lady
Author(s): Francis Hopkinson Smith As every Christmas for the last 20 years, the Little Gray...
The Decameron
Author(s): Giovanni Boccaccio The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by...
The Crocodile
Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky Ivan Matveich, the most ordinary person you might hope to meet, is...
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
Author(s): Various Twenty-four short stories by famous and not-so-famous British authors. (Summary by David Wales)...
The Chronicles of Clovis
Author(s): Saki This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from...
The Blue Review, Number 1
Author(s): Various The Blue Review was a short lived monthly journal published in London between...
The Homely Heroine
Author(s): Edna Ferber Who ever heard of a plain and downright homely heroine? Isn’t a...
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Author(s): Oscar Wilde Collection of children’s stories written in 1888, dealing primarily with love and...
The Best Short Stories of 1917
Author(s): Various I deny that the American short story is at a low ebb, and...
The Blue Review, Number 3
Author(s): Various The Blue Review was a short lived monthly journal published in London between...
The Four Million
Author(s): O. Henry Born in 1862 and died in 1910, O. Henry’s birth name is...
The Conjure Woman
Author(s): Charles Waddell Chesnutt Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt’s first book, The Conjure...
The Black Cat Vol. 05 No. 03 December 1899
Author(s): Various The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories,...
The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains
Author(s): Nathaniel Hawthorne A collection of four short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the common theme...
The Garden Party
Author(s): Katherine Mansfield A collection of short stories on a variety of subjects, by one...
The Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Author(s): Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Originally compiled by Cervantes himself in 1613 as a collection...
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles
Author(s): Herman Melville The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles is a novella by American author Herman...