Short Story Books

Abijah's Bubble

Francis Hopkinson Smith

Abijah's Bubble is a popular book by F. Hopkinson Smith. He was an American author, artist and engineer. His novels and short stories are especially felicitous in their portrayal of the Old South.&nbs..

Accidental Death

Peter Baily

Accidental Death is a science fiction story written by Peter Baily. The sun glinted on black rock glazed by ice, chasms and ridges and bridges of ice. It lit the snow slope to a frozen glare, penciled..

2 B R 0 2 B

Kurt Vonnegut

2 B R 0 2 B is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in the digest magazine Worlds of If Science Fiction for January 1962, and collected in Vonnegut's Bagombo Snuff Box...

The Monkey's Paw

W. W. Jacobs

The Monkey's Paw is a supernatural short story by author W. W. Jacobs first published in England in the collection The Lady of the Barge in 1902. In the story, three wishes are granted to the owner of..

The Next Logical Step

Benjamin William Bova

The Next Logical Step is a science fiction short story written by Benjamin William Bova, an American writer. He is the author of more than 120 works of science fact and fiction, he is six-ti..

My Man Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse

My Man Jeeves is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom in May 1919 by George Newnes. Of the eight stories in the collection, half feature the popular ..

The Heroes; Or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children

Charles Kingsley

The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The author had a great fondness for Greek fa..

The Fisherman and his soul

Oscar Wilde

The Fisherman and his soul is part of Oscar Wilde's short stories collection A House of Pomegranates.Every evening he went out upon the sea, and one evening the net was so heavy that hardly could..