Short Stories

The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers

The King in Yellow is a late‑nineteenth‑century American collection of short stories that blends speculative…

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

The work is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, written by Arthur Conan Doyle, that places the famed…

Grimms' Fairy Tales

Grimm, Jacob; Grimm, Wilhelm

The collection opens with the familiar German folk narrative of a king’s missing golden apples, a mystery…

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The story is a first‑person psychological sketch that opens with a newly‑wed couple, John, a pragmatic…

White nights, and other stories

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

White Nights and Other Stories gathers a handful of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s early Russian tales, each rendered…

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2

Edgar Allan Poe

The volume gathers Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, fantasy fiction, and horror tales, all rooted in…

警世通言

Menglong Feng

The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story

The volume is a bibliographic anthology that gathers the most noteworthy American short stories published in…

Poirot Investigates

Agatha Christie

Poirot Investigates is a detective story set in inter‑war England, featuring the famed Belgian sleuth Hercule…

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving

Washington Irving’s tale is a short work of early‑American fiction that blends ghostly legend with a vivid…

Twenty-Five Ghost Stories

The collection opens with a richly detailed, first‑person recounting of a storm‑laden night in a grand…

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1

Edgar Allan Poe

The volume gathers the fantasy‑inflected horror and detective stories that have made Edgar Allan Poe a…

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated

Arthur Conan Doyle

This volume gathers several of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s celebrated Sherlock Holmes adventures, presented in…

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a late‑Victorian detective narrative that picks up a decade after the famed…

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

The work is a Sherlock Holmes memoir in which the famed detective and his chronicler, Dr.

Dubliners

James Joyce

James Joyce’s Dubliners is a collection of short stories that paints a vivid portrait of everyday life in the…

Minute Mysteries [Detectograms]

H. A. Ripley

Minute Mysteries is a collection of short detective puzzles presented as “detectograms,” each a…

One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories Right Pleasaunte To Relate In All Goodly Companie By Way Of Joyance And Jollity

One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories is a medieval anthology that gathers French tales translated into…

The Cask of Amontillado

Edgar Allan Poe

The story is a compact horror tale that opens with a narrator’s cold confession of a long‑held grudge against…

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

The work is a collection of short stories set in the Indian jungle, populated by animals that speak and act…

The Dunwich horror

H. P. Lovecraft

The Dunwich Horror is a work of early twentieth‑century American fantasy fiction that blends horror with a…

The innocence of Father Brown

G. K. Chesterton

The story opens aboard a ferry that has just arrived at Harwich, where a crowd of passengers disembarks like…

Changeling, and Other Stories

Donn Byrne

Don Byrne’s *Changeling, and Other Stories* is a collection of short fiction rooted in Irish social life,…

Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship

The collection opens with George Egerton’s “A Little Grey Glove,” a sprawling, first‑person narrative that…