Short Story Books

The Problem of Cell 13

Jacques Futrelle

The Problem of Cell 13 is a short story by Jacques Futrelle. It was first published in 1905 and later collected in The Thinking Machine, which was featured in crime writer H. R. F. Keating's list of t..

Accelerando

Charles Stross

Accelerando is a 2005 science fiction novel consisting of a series of interconnected short stories written by British author Charles Stross. As well as normal hardback and paperback editions, it was r..

Andersens Sproken en vertellingen

Hans Christian Andersen

Sprookjes van Hans Christiaan Andersen, naverteld door Simon Jacob Andriessen. Deze verzameling bevat een aantal overbekende sprookjes, zoals Het lelijke jonge eendje en De prinses op de erwt, maar oo..

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales ( Second Series )

Hans Christian Andersen

The present volume is the second of the selected stories from Hans Andersen. Together the books include what, out of a larger number, are the best for children's use. The story-telling activity of thi..

Breckinridge Elkins

Robert E. Howard

Breckinridge Elkins is a fictional character created by pulp writer Robert E. Howard. He was featured in twenty-six humorous Western short stories, most of which originally appeared in the pages of Ac..

Heart of the West

O. Henry

The Heart of the West is entirely comprised of stories set in the American West, and may have been partially based on tales—tall or true—which O Henry heard during his wanderings in Texas and Mexico.T..

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 01

Sir Richard Francis Burton

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, an..

The Most Dangerous Game

Richard Connell

The Most Dangerous Game is a short story by Richard Connell features a big-game hunter from New York City who falls off a yacht and swims to what seems to be an abandoned and isolated island in the Ca..