Short Story Books

The Laughter of Toffee

Henry Farrell

Inside the store, he proceeded to the pharmacist's counter at the rear. There, he found himself confronted by a balding, fastidious individual in a white jacket whose gaze was fastened tenaciously on ..

Cinders

W. C. Tuttle

James Worthington Steele was a good railroad man; so he did not rave. He knew just how bad most of their rolling-stock was. But he must at least get a message through; so the conductor ran a wire from..

Creepin’ Tintypes

W. C. Tuttle

Waldemar starts to argue, but we both stands pat and he gives us the money. A hundred dollars is a lot of money to a man who expects to die the next day. There ain’t no rainy days in his future. He do..

The Vault

Murray Leinster

Mike was still for perhaps two seconds, while his brain raced. Then he sent a tiny pencil-beam at the vault door. It was closed, solidly. No one had been before him. But there was a man bound hand and..

A Gallery of Children

A. A. Milne

A collection of short stories written by Mine.A voyage to IndiaBarbara's birthdayCastles by the sea.Miss Waterlow in bedPoor AnneSand babiesSparrow Tree SquareThe baby showThe Magic HillThe three daug..

Recollections of Captain Wilkie - A Story of an Old Offender

Arthur Conan Doyle

Pray, do not think that I reasoned it out like this in my own mind. It is only now, sitting down with pen and paper, that I can see the successive steps. As it was, I had formed my conclusion within s..

Tales of the Wild and the Wonderful [1867]

Mary Diana Dods

Of the stories, “Der Freischütz,” as every body knows, is from the German.  “The Fortunes of De la Pole” is original; so is “The Prediction,” and “The Yellow Dwarf,” if I may be allowed that clai..

Guaranteed—Forever!

Frank M. Robinson

The building was a three story brick, and old. The office of Forsythe Carburetor Company was one flight up, at the end of a hallway where the wooden flooring creaked and groaned and threatened to give..