Short Stories

Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers

The volume is a collection of short stories drawn from Asian folklore, presented for children and young…

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

P. G. Wodehouse

The volume is a collection of humorous short pieces by P. G.

The secret of Father Brown

G. K. Chesterton

The story opens with Father Brown, the unassuming Catholic priest‑detective, interrogating a suspect in a…

The Missing Will

Agatha Christie

The story opens with Miss Violet Marsh, a determined young woman, seeking the help of Hercule Poirot to…

Fifty-Two Stories For Girls

The volume is a collection of short narratives aimed at young readers, especially girls, that explore…

Western Characters; or, Types of Border Life in the Western States

John Ludlum McConnel

Western Characters; or, Types of Border Life in the Western States is a mid‑nineteenth‑century sketchbook…

Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930

Astounding Stories of Super‑Science, the January 1930 issue, is a pulp‑era magazine that launches with a…

The best short stories of 1919, and the yearbook of the American short story

The volume is a curated anthology of American short fiction published in 1919, accompanied by a comprehensive…

Shapes that Haunt the Dusk

Shapes that Haunt the Dusk is a collection of American short stories assembled by Harper’s Novelettes and…

Andersen's Fairy Tales

H. C. Andersen

Andersen’s Fairy Tales gathers the Danish author’s imaginative narratives, beginning with the whimsical…

Aunt Jo's scrap bag, Volume 1: My boys, etc.

Louisa May Alcott

Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag, Volume 1 is a whimsical collection of short sketches that blend travelogue, animal…

Child-Land: Picture-Pages for the Little Ones

Child‑Land is a collection of short, picture‑page scenes that capture everyday moments in the lives of…

A Martian Odyssey

Stanley G. Weinbaum

A Martian Odyssey is a science‑fiction adventure set in a near‑future era when humanity has just begun to…

Shadows in the Moonlight

Robert E. Howard

The story opens in a tangled reed‑filled marsh where a terrified young woman, Olivia, has just been unseated…

Sketches New and Old

Mark Twain

Sketches New and Old is a miscellany of Twain’s short, comic pieces that lampoon the quirks of 19th‑century…

Shadows in Zamboula

Robert E. Howard

The story is a Conan adventure set in the bustling, multicultural bazaar of Zamboula, a desert outpost where…

Astounding Stories, August, 1931

Various

Astounding Stories, August 1931 is a pulp‑era science‑fiction magazine, and its opening story thrusts the…

Astounding Stories, May, 1931

Various

This May 1931 issue of Astounding Stories presents a single, self‑contained adventure that thrusts its…

Nights With Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation

Joel Chandler Harris

Nights With Uncle Remus gathers a series of plantation‑era fables, each centered on animal characters that…

Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930

Various

Astounding Stories of Super‑Science, December 1930, is a pulp‑era magazine anthology that plunges the reader…

Astounding Stories, June, 1931

Various

Astounding Stories, June 1931 is a pulp‑era science‑fiction magazine, and this excerpt plunges the reader…

Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen

Alexander Chodzko

Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen is a collection of twenty folk narratives drawn from Slavic…

Kleinstadtkinder: Buben und Mädelgeschichten

Josephine Siebe

Der Band ist ein Sammelwerk von Stadt‑ und Kindergeschichten, das die Jugend‑ und Stadt‑Leben‑Themen der…

Humorous Ghost Stories

Dorothy Scarborough

Dorothy Scarborough’s Humorous Ghost Stories is a scholarly yet playful survey of how the specter has evolved…