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The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers

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

In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim

Frances Hodgson Burnett

In this domestic vignette by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the narrative opens on a horse‑riding rider who, after…

John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein

Frank R. Stockton

Frank R. Stockton’s “John Gayther’s Garden and the Stories Told Therein” is a sprawling, episodic work of…

The Forsaken Inn: A Novel

Anna Katharine Green

The novel opens on a rain‑swept stretch of road between Albany and Poughkeepsie, where the weary narrator, on…

Jersey Street and Jersey Lane: Urban and Suburban Sketches

H. C. Bunner

The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories

Joaquin Miller

Oldtown Fireside Stories

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories

Mark Twain

The Open Boat and Other Stories

Stephen Crane

The Love Affairs of an Old Maid

Lilian Bell

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Mark Twain

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories

Mark Twain

The American Claimant

Mark Twain

Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home

Bayard Taylor

The Brick Moon, and Other Stories

Edward Everett Hale

Pencil Sketches; or, Outlines of Character and Manners

Eliza Leslie

The Monster and Other Stories

Stephen Crane

The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Love's bitterest cup

Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

The Magic Egg, and Other Stories

Frank R. Stockton

In the clouds

Charles Egbert Craddock

A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches

Sarah Orne Jewett

Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches

Constance Fenimore Woolson

The Burial of the Guns

Thomas Nelson Page