The Short Stories collection celebrates the art of short fiction — the tales and collections that pack a lifetime into a few pages. It brings together masters of the form such as Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, O. Henry, and Guy de Maupassant, alongside anthologies of mystery, horror, fantasy, and literary realism.
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- The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle
- The King in YellowRobert W. Chambers
- The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2Edgar Allan Poe
- Grimms' Fairy TalesJacob Grimm
- The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1Edgar Allan Poe
- The Return of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle
- The Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle
- Complete Short Works of George MeredithGeorge Meredith
- Victorian Short Stories: Stories of CourtshipUnknown
- The call of CthulhuH. P. Lovecraft
- The Innocence of Father BrownG. K. Chesterton
- Trial by waterSewell Peaslee Wright
- The Cask of AmontilladoEdgar Allan Poe
- Poirot InvestigatesAgatha Christie
- Twenty-Five Ghost Stories
- The Wisdom of Father BrownG. K. Chesterton
- His Last BowArthur Conan Doyle
- Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories
- The case-book of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle
- The Empty House and Other Ghost StoriesAlgernon Blackwood
- Tales of Terror and MysteryArthur Conan Doyle
- The Dunwich horrorH. P. Lovecraft
- Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 4, June, 1923: The unique magazineVarious
- Ghost Stories of an AntiquaryM. R. James
- Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 1, March 1923: The unique magazineVarious
- The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English
- The secret of Father BrownG. K. Chesterton
- The Shunned HouseH. P. Lovecraft
- Minute Mysteries [Detectograms]H. A. Ripley
- The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost StoriesRudyard Kipling
- The Damned Thing / 1898, From “In the Midst of Life”Ambrose Bierce
- The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, February 1904, No. 159.Various
- Changeling, and Other StoriesDonn Byrne
- The Ambulance Made Two TripsMurray Leinster
- The Jungle BookRudyard Kipling
- The Man Upstairs and Other StoriesP. G. Wodehouse
- White Nights, and Other StoriesFyodor Dostoyevsky
- Le cas etrange du docteur Jekyll; Un logement pour la nuitRobert Louis Stevenson
- The Yellow WallpaperCharlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Legend of Sleepy HollowWashington Irving
- The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short storyUnknown
- One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories / Right Pleasaunte To Relate In All Goodly Companie By Way Of Joyance And Jollity
- Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930
- The Decameron of Giovanni BoccaccioGiovanni Boccaccio
- A Martian OdysseyStanley G. Weinbaum
- Shadows in ZamboulaRobert E. Howard
- Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930Various
- Astounding Stories, May, 1931Various
- Astounding Stories, August, 1931Various
- Astounding Stories, June, 1931Various
- Andersen's Fairy TalesH. C. Andersen
- The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition / Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five VolumesEdgar Allan Poe
- Shadows in the MoonlightRobert E. Howard
- Cuentos de amorcondesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
- Fifty-Two Stories For Girls
- The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of AdventureRex Beach
- Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 24
- The magnificent possessionIsaac Asimov
- Fairy dreamsJane Austin
- Tales of terrorDick Donovan
- Vecchie storie d'amoreAdolfo Albertazzi
- I, MarsRay Bradbury
- The dream detectiveSax Rohmer
- The magic casketR. Austin Freeman
- The adventures of HeineEdgar Wallace
- Die seltsamen Geschichten des Doktor UlebuhleBruno Hans Bürgel
- The ghost of Charlotte Cray, and other storiesFlorence Marryat
- The black kissRobert Bloch
- The mark of the monsterJack Williamson
- Law-star for an outlawW. C. Tuttle
- Wanted—?Eugene Cunningham
- This star shall be freeMurray Leinster
- Red acesEdgar Wallace
- Just a bit too fastHal Moore
- The blue scarabR. Austin Freeman
- Skeeter Bill comes to townW. C. Tuttle
- Hänen viimeinen tervehdyksensäArthur Conan Doyle
- The life-eaterHarold Ward
- Humorous Ghost StoriesDorothy Scarborough
- The man who saved New YorkRay Cummings
- His brother's keeperW. C. Tuttle
- They return at eveningHerbert Russell Wakefield
- Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no. 153, vol. III, December 4, 1886Various
- One jump aheadRay Humphreys
- Ikuinen salaisuusJack London
- False faceErnest Haycox
- Lord Lister No. 0033: De AlarmkreetKurt Matull
- Missing menVincent Starrett
- Morgue kadun kauhuEdgar Allan Poe
- The best short stories of 1919, and the yearbook of the American short story
- Western Characters; or, Types of Border Life in the Western StatesJohn Ludlum McConnel
- DublinersJames Joyce