Short Story Books

Irish Fairy Tales

James Stephens

Irish Fairy Tales is a retelling of ten Irish folktales by the Irish author James Stephens. The English illustrator Arthur Rackham provided interior artwork, including numerous black and white illustr..

Hunter Quatermain's Story

H. Rider Haggard

Hunter Quatermain's  Story is a short story written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard,  an English writer of adventure fiction set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of t..

The Magic World

Edith Nesbit

The Magic World is an influential collection of twelve short stories by E. Nesbit. It was first published in book form in 1912 by Macmillan and Co. Ltd., with illustrations by H. R. Millar and Gerald ..

Short Science Fiction Collection 027

Various Authors

Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contempora..

Ilman menestyksettä

Wilkie Collins

Ilman menestyksettä is a Finnish work co-authored by Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens...

Seven Men

Sir Max Beerbohm

In order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in the 1890s (as if Oscar Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Hardy, etc., were not lively enough) Max Beerbohm wrote short biographies of six imagina..

The Arabian Nights Entertainments — Volume 01

Jonathan Scott

The main frame story concerns a king and his new bride. The king, Shahryar, upon discovering his ex-wife's infidelity executes her and then declares all women to be unfaithful. He begins to marry a su..

The Green Flag, and Other Stories of War and Sport

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle was deeply affected by the many wars fought during his lifetime. As many other writers, he used the material for short stories, a collection of which is presented here. The stories ..