Short Story Books

The Shunned House

H. P. Lovecraft

The Shunned House is a horror fiction novelette by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written on October 16–19, 1924. It was first published in the October 1937 issue of Weird Tales...

Three Ghost Stories

Charles Dickens

Three Ghost Stories is a collection of ghost stories written by Charles Dickens. The stories in this book are The Haunted House, The Trial For Murder, and The Signal-Man."The Haunted House" ..

Nightmare Abbey

Thomas Love Peacock

Nightmare Abbey is an 1818 novella by Thomas Love Peacock, and his third long work of fiction to be published. It was written in late March and June 1818, and published in London...

Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson

Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life written by Sherwood Anderson, an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he ro..

Fifty Famous Stories Retold

James Baldwin

Fifty Famous Stories Retold is a collection of short stories collected and edited by James Baldwin, an American novelist, playwright, and activist. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native S..

Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers

John Burroughs

Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers is a children's books written by John Burroughs, an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the U.S. conservation movement. The first of his essay colle..

Rashomon

Akutagawa Ryunosuke

Rashomon is a Japanese short story written by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the "Father of the Japanese short story" and Japan's p..

The Hermit and the Wild Woman

Edith Wharton

The Hermit and the Wild Woman is a collection of short stories written by Edith Wharton, an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and designer. ..