Short stories books

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Ib Melchior

Melchior’s piece is a short‑story hybrid that blends science‑fiction with the spectacle of a televised game…

The hand of God

Murray Leinster

The story opens in a sweltering county jail where a weary sheriff, pipe in hand, listens to a restless mob…

A young man's story

Sarah Doudney

The work is a short‑fiction tale that blends a gentle romance with a hint of the uncanny.

The bar act

Bud La Mar

The Bar Act is a rollicking Western short‑story collection by Bud La Mar that plunges the reader straight…

The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe

The work is a short gothic horror tale that begins with a lone narrator riding through a bleak autumn…

Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Ghost Stories

This volume gathers a selection of short ghost stories that trace the evolution of the genre from antiquity…

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Ambrose Bierce

The piece is a Civil‑War‑era short story that opens with a stark tableau on a northern Alabama railroad…

Ein Landarzt: Kleine Erzählungen

Franz Kafka

Ein Landarzt: Kleine Erzählungen ist eine Sammlung kurzer, skizzenhafter Prosa, die mit einer eigenwilligen…

Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Detective Stories

This four‑volume set gathers a representative sweep of early detective fiction, beginning with Edgar Allan…

Contos d'Aldeia

Alberto Leal Barradas Monteiro Braga

Contos d’Aldeia, de Alberto Leal Barradas Monteiro, é uma coletânea de narrativas curtas que mergulha o…

Thespis (novelas cortas y cuentos)

Carlos O. Bunge

Thespis es una colección de relatos breves y fantasías que, bajo la figura mitológica del creador del teatro,…

Bocetos californianos

Bret Harte

Este libro es una recopilación de cuentos cortos del escritor estadounidense Bret Harte, centrados en la vida…

Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers

Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

The work is a collection of short stories centered on the lives of Labrador fishers, and the opening tale…

Little Wizard Stories of Oz

L. Frank Baum

Little Wizard Stories of Oz is a collection of short, juvenile fantasies set in L.

The Book of Dragons

E. Nesbit

The work is a whimsical short‑story collection aimed at children, centering on the absurd adventures of a…

Eliza

Barry Pain

Barry Pain’s Eliza is a collection of short, humor‑tinged sketches that present the domestic life of a…

Rootabaga Stories

Carl Sandburg

Rootabaga Stories is a whimsical collection of American fairy‑tale sketches that begins with the odd,…

The Grain Ship

Morgan Robertson

Morgan Robertson’s collection gathers a dozen compact tales that orbit the sea, and it opens with a striking…

Noveller

Minna Canth

Denna samling korta berättelser, skriven av Minna Canth, presenterar en livsskildring som sträcker sig från…

Weihnachtserzählungen

Adolf Schwayer

Der Band „Weihnachtserzählungen“ von Adolf Schwayer ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten, die das…

In the Border Country

Josephine Daskam Bacon

In In the Border Country Josephine Daskam Bacon presents a fragmentary, impressionistic tale that blurs the…

The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories

Mark Twain

The volume gathers a handful of Mark Twain’s shorter works, ranging from the unfinished “The Mysterious…

Die Kurtisane Jamaica

Hans Bethge

Die Erzählung „Die Kurtisane Jamaica“ ist ein kurzgeschichtlicher Liebesroman, der das Leben einer…

Who Are Happiest? and Other Stories

T. S. Arthur

This volume is a collection of moral short stories aimed at young readers who are on the cusp of adulthood.