Short Story Books

Malvina of Brittany

Jerome K. Jerome

Malvina of Brittany is a short story written by Jerome K. Jerome, an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat.Preface from the book:The Doctor never did bel..

Round the Red Lamp

Arthur Conan Doyle

Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life is a collection of medical and detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle published on 23 October 1894. The series was suggested to the author ..

Æsop's Fables - A Version for Young Readers

Aesop

The good fortune which has attended the earlier edition of this book is a proof that there is less occasion now than formerly to plead the cause of fables for use in elementary schools. And yet their ..

Aunt Judy's Tales

Mrs. Alfred Gatty

Aunt Judy's Tales is a collection short stories for children written by Margaret Gatty, an English children's author and writer on marine biology. Some of her writings argue against Charles Darwi..

J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 is a multi volume collection of ghost stories written by Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu, who was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horro..

Betrachtung

Franz Kafka

Betrachtung is a collection of eighteen short stories written in German by Franz Kafka written between 1904 and 1912. It was Kafka's first published book, printed at the end of 1912 in the Rowohlt Ver..

Christmas Holidays at Merryvale

Alice Hale Burnett

Christmas Holidays at Merryvale is a collection of stories for children written by Alice Hale Burnett, an American author of children's books. She is best known for writing books set in a small t..

Famous Modern Ghost Stories

Dorothy Scarborough

Famous Modern Ghost Stories written by popular authors and collected by Emily Dorothy Scarborough was an American writer who wrote about Texas, folk culture, cotton farming, ghost stories and wom..