Short Story Books

The Lerouge Case

Emile Gaboriau

Bougival is a pleasant riverside village, peopled on Sundays by crowds of boating parties. Trifling offences are frequently heard of in its neighbourhood, but crimes are rare.The commissary of police ..

Zeta Exchange - A Terran Empire story

Ann Wilson

Zeta Exchange: A Terran Empire story is a science fiction short story written by Ann Wilson...

The Alhambra

Washington Irving

Tales of the Alhambra is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving. ROUGH draughts of some of the following tales and essays were actually written during a residen..

The Lurking Fear

H. P. Lovecraft

The Lurking Fear is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November 1922, it was first published in the January through April 1923 issues of Home Brew...

Good Stories for Great Holidays

Frances Jenkins Olcott

Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading.This volume, though intended also for the children's own reading and for reading aloud, ..

The Arabian Nights Entertainments — Volume 02

Jonathan Scott

Contents of Volume II.     The Story of the Little Hunch-Back     The Story Told by the Christian Merchant     The Story Told by the Sultan of Casgar's Pur..

The Arabian Nights

Andrew Lang

The Arabian Nights is a collection of Perso-Arabic folk tales and other stories. The collection, or at least certain stories drawn from it (or purporting to be drawn from it), became widely known in t..

Mr. Joseph Hanson, The Haberdasher

Mary Russell Mitford

Mr. Joseph Hanson, The Haberdasher is a collection of short stories written by Mary Russell Mitford, an English author and dramatist. She was born at Alresford in Hampshire. She is best know..