Short Story Books

Collected Works of H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft’s name is synonymous with horror fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamen..

Stories of Mystery

Rossiter Johnson

Stories of Mystery is a collection of short mystery stories written by various reknoned authors and edited by American author Rossiter Johnson, who is best known for his multi volume of work of&n..

Sac-Au-Dos

J.-K. Huysmans

Sac-Au-Dos is a short story written by Joris-Karl Huysmans, a French novelist best known for his novel À rebours (published in English as Against the Grain or Against Nature). ..

A Fair Penitent

Wilkie Collins

A Fair Penitent is a short story based on conversion of religion and nuns life written by William Wilkie Collins, an English novelist, playwright and short story writer best known for his masterp..

Zur freundlichen Erinnerung

Oskar Maria Graf

Zur freundlichen Erinnerung is a collection of short stories written in German language by Oskar Maria Graf, s a German author, who wrote several narratives about life in Bavaria, mostly autobiog..

Earth's Holocaust

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Earth's Holocaust is part of short story collection "Mosses from an Old Manse", written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. The collection includes several previously-published short stor..

The Man Who Hated Mars

Randall Garrett

The Man Who Hated Mars is a space opera written by Randall Garrett, an American science fiction and fantasy author. To escape from Mars, all Clayton had to do was the impossible. Break out o..

Woodland Tales

Ernest Thompson Seton

Woodland Tales is a collection of tales written for children and young readers by Ernest Thompson Seton was an author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians.These Mother Carey Tales w..