Short Story Books

Love, the Fiddler

Lloyd Osbourne

Frank Rignold had never been the favoured suitor, not at least so far as anything definite was concerned; but he had always been welcome at the little house on Commonwealth Street, and amongst the nei..

The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig - A Novel

David Graham Phillips

Arkwright glanced from the parlor where he was sitting into the gloom of the open bathroom and back again. His cynical brown-green eyes paused upon a scatter of clothing, half-hiding the badly-rubbed ..

Galusha the Magnificent

Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Mr. Horatio Pulcifer was on his way home. It was half-past five of a foggy, gray afternoon in early October; it had rained the previous day and a part of the day before that and it looked extremely li..

The Fiend's Delight

Dod Grile

The atrocities constituting this “cold collation” of diabolisms are taken mainly from various Californian journals. They are cast in the American language, and liberally enriched with unintelligibilit..

Mademoiselle Fifi

Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant was born at the Chateau de Miromesnil, near Dieppe, on August 5th, 1850. The Maupassants were an old Lorraine family who had settled in Normandy in the middle of the Eighteenth Centu..

An African Millionaire

Grant Allen

My name is Seymour Wilbraham Wentworth. I am brother-in-law and secretary to Sir Charles Vandrift, the South African millionaire and famous financier. Many years ago, when Charlie Vandrift was a small..

The Veiled Lady, and Other Men and Women

Francis Hopkinson Smith

The Veiled Lady, and Other Men and Women is a collection of American short stories written by Francis Hopkinson Smith. This collection of stories has been labelled "The Veiled Lady" as being..

Woman and Puppet

Pierre Louÿs

About twelve years ago Oscar Wilde dedicated his beautiful Salome thus: “À mon Ami Pierre Louÿs.” At that time not many gentlemen in England knew the name of the writer who was to become famous throug..