Short Story Books

The Circle of Zero

Stanley G. Weinbaum

If there were a mountain a thousand miles high and every thousand years a bird flew over it, just brushing the peak with the tip of its wing, in the course of inconceivable eons the mountain would be ..

Time Crime

H. Beam Piper

Time Crime is a science fiction short story written by H. Beam Piper, an American science fiction author. He wrote many short stories and several novels. He is best known for his extensive Terro-Human..

Winter Evening Tales

Amelia E. Barr

In these "Winter Evening Tales," Mrs. Barr has spread before her readers a feast that will afford the rarest enjoyment for many a leisure hour. There are few writers of the present day whose genius ha..

Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories

Alice C. Hegan

Miss Mink's Soldier And Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by Alice Hegan Rice, who is also the author of "Mrs. Wiggs Of The Cabbage Patch," "Mr. Opp," "Calvary Alley," Etc. T..

The Three Golden Apples

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Three Golden Apples is part of the Nathaniel Hawthorne's series of A WONDER-BOOK FOR GIRLS AND BOYS. A Yankee student stays at a country house called Tanglewood during a golden New Engla..

A Modern Cinderella

Amanda M. Douglas

A Modern Cinderella is a juvenile fiction story written by Amanda Minnie Douglas, an American writer of adult and juvenile fiction. She was probably best remembered by young readers of her day fo..

Opera Stories from Wagner

Florence Akin

Eleven stories of eleven operas by Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold. Die Walküre. Siegfried. Götterdämmerung. Parsifal. Lohengrin. Tannhäuser. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Rienzi. Die Fliegende H..

The Enchanted Typewriter

John Kendrick Bangs

The Enchanted Typewriter is a collection of short stories by the American author John Kendrick Bangs, written in 1899 in the style that has become known as Bangsian fantasy. Bangs attributes many of t..