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
- Victorian Short Stories: Stories of CourtshipUnknown
- Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 2Edgar Allan Poe
- The Shunned HouseH. P. Lovecraft
- Twenty-Five Ghost Stories
- The call of CthulhuH. P. Lovecraft
- The Dunwich horrorH. P. Lovecraft
- Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 1Edgar Allan Poe
- Minute Mysteries (Detectograms)H. A. Ripley
- The Innocence of Father BrownG. K. Chesterton
- The Return of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle
- Poirot InvestigatesAgatha Christie
- The Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle
- The Wisdom of Father BrownG. K. Chesterton
- The Secret of Father BrownG. K. Chesterton
- The Case-Book of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle
- The Damned ThingAmbrose Bierce
- The Ambulance Made Two TripsMurray Leinster
- Weird Tales, No. 1Various
- Weird Tales, No. 4Various
- His Last BowArthur Conan Doyle
- Changeling, and Other StoriesDonn Byrne
- The Lock and Key Library
- The Cask of AmontilladoEdgar Allan Poe
- The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost StoriesRudyard Kipling
- Tales of Terror and MysteryArthur Conan Doyle
- Ghost Stories of an AntiquaryM. R. James
- Complete Short Works of George MeredithGeorge Meredith
- Trial by waterSewell Peaslee Wright
- Library of the World’s Best
- The Empty House and Other Ghost StoriesAlgernon Blackwood
- Grimms' Fairy TalesJacob Grimm
- Le cas étrange du docteur JekyllRobert Louis Stevenson
- The Man Upstairs and Other StoriesP. G. Wodehouse
- Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930Various
- Astounding Stories, June 1931Various
- A Martian OdysseyStanley G. Weinbaum
- Astounding Stories, May 1931Various
- Astounding Stories, August 1931Various
- The Legend of Sleepy HollowWashington Irving
- Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Index)Edgar Allan Poe
- Astounding Stories of Super-Science, January 1930
- Shadows in ZamboulaRobert E. Howard
- Shadows in the MoonlightRobert E. Howard
- The DecameronGiovanni Boccaccio
- The Crimson Gardenia and OtherRex Beach
- Andersen's Fairy TalesH. C. Andersen
- Cuentos de amorcondesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
- Vecchie storie d'amoreAdolfo Albertazzi
- The Jungle BookRudyard Kipling
- The Blue ScarabR. Austin Freeman
- Chambers’s Journal of Popular LiteratureVarious
- One Jump AheadRay Humphreys
- Fairy dreamsJane Austin
- The magnificent possessionIsaac Asimov
- Tales of TerrorDick Donovan
- The Yellow WallpaperCharlotte Perkins Gilman
- They Return at EveningHerbert Russell Wakefield
- The black kissRobert Bloch
- The Magic CasketR. Austin Freeman
- The Dream DetectiveSax Rohmer
- Law-star for an outlawW. C. Tuttle
- The Ghost of Charlotte CrayFlorence Marryat
- The Adventures of HeineEdgar Wallace
- I, MarsRay Bradbury
- Skeeter Bill Comes to TownW. C. Tuttle
- Hänen viimeinen tervehdyksensäArthur Conan Doyle
- Red AcesEdgar Wallace
- The mark of the monsterJack Williamson
- This Star Shall Be FreeMurray Leinster
- Ikuinen salaisuusJack London
- The Life-EaterHarold Ward
- Wanted—?Eugene Cunningham
- Missing MenVincent Starrett
- His Brother’s KeeperW. C. Tuttle
- Just a Bit Too FastHal Moore
- Lord Lister No. 0033: De AlarmkreetKurt Matull
- False FaceErnest Haycox
- Morgue kadun kauhuEdgar Allan Poe
- The Man Who Saved New YorkRay Cummings
- White Nights, and Other StoriesFyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Best Short Stories of 1920Unknown
- DublinersJames Joyce
- One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories
- Western CharactersJohn Ludlum McConnel
- Fifty-Two Stories For Girls
- Humorous Ghost StoriesDorothy Scarborough
- The Monkey’s PawW. W. Jacobs
- The Best Short Stories of 1919
- A London Life, and Other TalesHenry James
- A Sheaf of CornMary E. Mann
- The Garden Party, and Other StoriesKatherine Mansfield
- Paul the Minstrel, and Other StoriesA. C. Benson
- The Canterville GhostOscar Wilde
- Montezuma’s Castle, and Other Weird TalesCharles B. Cory
- The Singing Mouse StoriesEmerson Hough
- EmbarrassmentsHenry James
- The Book of DragonsE. Nesbit
- Where Angels Fear to TreadMorgan Robertson
- Little Novels of ItalyMaurice Hewlett
- The Country of the Blind, and Other StoriesH. G. Wells
- Strange Stories from a Chinese StudioPu Songling
- The Ape, the Idiot & Other PeopleW. C. Morrow
- Fairy Prince and Other StoriesEleanor Hallowell Abbott
- A Brother to DragonsAmélie Rives
- KwaidanLafcadio Hearn
- A Chosen FewFrank R. Stockton
- The Four MillionO. Henry
- Tales of Fantasy and FactBrander Matthews
- Rootabaga StoriesCarl Sandburg
- Beasts and Super-BeastsSaki
- Stories from TagoreRabindranath Tagore
- Japanese Fairy TalesYei Theodora Ozaki
- The Red Fairy BookAndrew Lang
- The Eternal Moment, and Other StoriesE. M. Forster
- Fables in SlangGeorge Ade
- Oldtown Fireside StoriesHarriet Beecher Stowe
- Tales of the Malayan CoastRounsevelle Wildman
- The House of SoulsArthur Machen
- The Last of the LegionsArthur Conan Doyle
- The Red TriangleArthur Morrison
- Tales of Two CountriesAlexander Kielland
- Dracula’s GuestBram Stoker
- Twice-Told TalesNathaniel Hawthorne
- The Second Jungle BookRudyard Kipling
- The Open Boat and Other StoriesStephen Crane
- Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New YorkLemuel Ely Quigg
- The Stolen Bacillus and Other IncidentsH. G. Wells
- Men Without WomenErnest Hemingway
- Three Ghost StoriesCharles Dickens
- Stanford StoriesCharles K. Field and Will Irwin
- Bliss, and Other StoriesKatherine Mansfield
- Side Show StudiesFrancis Metcalfe
- Winesburg, OhioSherwood Anderson
- Monday or TuesdayVirginia Woolf
- Lord Arthur Savile’s CrimeOscar Wilde
- A Stable for NightmaresJ. Sheridan Le Fanu
- Can Such Things Be?Ambrose Bierce
- Sketches by BozCharles Dickens
- The Upper BerthF. Marion Crawford
- My Man JeevesP. G. Wodehouse
- The Club of Queer TradesG. K. Chesterton
- Stories from the PentameroneGiambattista Basile
- The Inimitable JeevesP. G. Wodehouse
- East of the Sun and West of the MoonAsbjørnsen and Moe
- The £1,000,000 Bank-NoteMark Twain
- From Place to PlaceIrvin S. Cobb
- Colonial Facts and FictionsMark Kershaw
- The Trimmed LampO. Henry
- The Hungry Stones, and Other StoriesRabindranath Tagore
- Die seltsamen Geschichten des Doktor UlebuhleBruno Hans Bürgel
- The Exemplary Novels Miguel de Cervantes
- Mogens and Other Stories J. P. Jacobsen
- Northern Lights Gilbert Parker
- Norse Tales and Sketches Alexander Kielland
- While the Billy Boils Henry Lawson
- Dreams Olive Schreiner
- A Passion in the Desert Honoré de Balzac
- Une Vie and Other Stories Guy de Maupassant
- Old Indian Days Charles A. Eastman
- Joe Wilson and His Mates Henry Lawson
- The Moving Finger Mary Gaunt
- Devil Stories Maximilian J. Rudwin
- Jewish Children Sholem Aleichem
- Mashi and Other Stories Rabindranath Tagore
- Married August Strindberg
- Lords of the Housetops Carl Van Vechten
- Three Short Works Gustave Flaubert
- Historical Miniatures August Strindberg
- Friends and Neighbors T. S. Arthur
- The Atheist’s Mass Honoré de Balzac
- Il Novellino Anonymous
- Tales from Jókai Mór Jókai
- In Bad Company and Other Stories Rolf Boldrewood
- Yiddish Tales Helena Frank
- On the Track Henry Lawson
- Invisible Links Selma Lagerlöf
- Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
- The Grey Wig Israel Zangwill
- First Love and Other Stories of Spanish Life E. Haldeman-Julius
- By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore Louis Becke
- The Pool in the Desert Sara Jeannette Duncan
- Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian Various
- Children of the Bush Henry Lawson
- Black Forest Village Stories Berthold Auerbach
- Pierre and His People Gilbert Parker
- Tales of Bengal S. B. Banerjea
- Seven Icelandic Short Stories Ásgeir Pétursson
- Prosper Mérimée’s Short Stories Prosper Mérimée
- In Midsummer Days and Other Tales August Strindberg
- Twenty-Six and One and Other Stories Maxim Gorky
- Ten Tales François Coppée
- The Black Creek Stopping-House Nellie L. McClung
- Cumner’s Son and Other South Sea Folk Gilbert Parker
- Rosa Alchemica W. B. Yeats
- Stories of Intellect Rossiter Johnson
- In Court and Kampong Hugh Clifford
- Stories of Romance Rossiter Johnson
- Dream Life and Real Life Olive Schreiner
- Over the Sliprails Henry Lawson
- Some Animal Stories Charles G. D. Roberts
- The Kindred of the Wild Charles G. D. Roberts
- The Moccasin Maker E. Pauline Johnson
- Eastern Shame Girl Anonymous
- Stories by Foreign Authors: Spanish Various
- A Little Book for Christmas Cyrus Townsend Brady
- The Doctor’s Red Lamp Charles Wells Moulton
- The Haunters of the Silences Charles G. D. Roberts
- The Message Honoré de Balzac
- The Attack on the Mill Émile Zola
- Old Man Savarin Stories Edward William Thomson
- Mooswa and Others of the Boundaries W. A. Fraser
- At a Winter’s Fire Bernard Capes
- The Purse Honoré de Balzac
- Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and others
- Modern Swedish Masterpieces Charles Wharton Stork
- Tales from the Gesta Romanorum Anonymous
- Crowded Out and Other Sketches S. Frances Harrison
- Dreams and Delights L. Adams Beck
- The Rising of the Court Henry Lawson
- On the Iron at Big Cloud Frank L. Packard
- Mademoiselle Fifi Guy de Maupassant
- Allegories of Life Mrs. J. S. Adams
- The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather
- The Sisters Rondoli and Other Stories Guy de Maupassant
- Christmas in Modern Story Maud van Buren
- Dry Fish and Wet Anthon B. Nilsen
- Tales of My Native Town Gabriele D’Annunzio
- Short Stories from the Balkans Edna Worthley Underwood
- Tales of Humour, Gallantry and Romance Various
- The Indian Lily and Other Stories Hermann Sudermann
- The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales Francis A. Durivage
- More Tales by Polish Authors Various