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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- A Brother to DragonsAmélie Rives
- A Chosen FewFrank R. Stockton
- A London Life, and Other TalesHenry James
- A Martian OdysseyStanley G. Weinbaum
- A Sheaf of CornMary E. Mann
- A Stable for NightmaresJ. Sheridan Le Fanu
- Andersen's Fairy TalesH. C. Andersen
- Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930Various
- Astounding Stories of Super-Science, January 1930
- Astounding Stories, August 1931Various
- Astounding Stories, June 1931Various
- Astounding Stories, May 1931Various
- Beasts and Super-BeastsSaki
- Bliss, and Other StoriesKatherine Mansfield
- Can Such Things Be?Ambrose Bierce
- Chambers’s Journal of Popular LiteratureVarious
- Changeling, and Other StoriesDonn Byrne
- Colonial Facts and FictionsMark Kershaw
- Complete Short Works of George MeredithGeorge Meredith
- Cuentos de amorcondesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
- Die seltsamen Geschichten des Doktor UlebuhleBruno Hans Bürgel
- Dracula’s GuestBram Stoker
- DublinersJames Joyce
- East of the Sun and West of the MoonAsbjørnsen and Moe
- EmbarrassmentsHenry James
- Fables in SlangGeorge Ade
- Fairy dreamsJane Austin
- Fairy Prince and Other StoriesEleanor Hallowell Abbott
- False FaceErnest Haycox
- Fifty-Two Stories For Girls
- From Place to PlaceIrvin S. Cobb
- Ghost Stories of an AntiquaryM. R. James
- Grimms' Fairy TalesJacob Grimm
- His Brother’s KeeperW. C. Tuttle
- His Last BowArthur Conan Doyle
- Humorous Ghost StoriesDorothy Scarborough
- Hänen viimeinen tervehdyksensäArthur Conan Doyle
- I, MarsRay Bradbury
- Ikuinen salaisuusJack London
- Japanese Fairy TalesYei Theodora Ozaki
- Just a Bit Too FastHal Moore
- KwaidanLafcadio Hearn
- Law-star for an outlawW. C. Tuttle
- Le cas étrange du docteur JekyllRobert Louis Stevenson
- Library of the World’s Best
- Little Novels of ItalyMaurice Hewlett
- Lord Arthur Savile’s CrimeOscar Wilde
- Lord Lister No. 0033: De AlarmkreetKurt Matull
- Men Without WomenErnest Hemingway
- Minute Mysteries (Detectograms)H. A. Ripley
- Missing MenVincent Starrett
- Monday or TuesdayVirginia Woolf
- Montezuma’s Castle, and Other Weird TalesCharles B. Cory
- Morgue kadun kauhuEdgar Allan Poe
- My Man JeevesP. G. Wodehouse
- Oldtown Fireside StoriesHarriet Beecher Stowe
- One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories
- One Jump AheadRay Humphreys
- Paul the Minstrel, and Other StoriesA. C. Benson
- Poirot InvestigatesAgatha Christie
- Red AcesEdgar Wallace
- Rootabaga StoriesCarl Sandburg
- Shadows in the MoonlightRobert E. Howard
- Shadows in ZamboulaRobert E. Howard
- Side Show StudiesFrancis Metcalfe
- Skeeter Bill Comes to TownW. C. Tuttle
- Sketches by BozCharles Dickens
- Stanford StoriesCharles K. Field and Will Irwin
- Stories from TagoreRabindranath Tagore
- Stories from the PentameroneGiambattista Basile
- Strange Stories from a Chinese StudioPu Songling
- Tales of Fantasy and FactBrander Matthews
- Tales of TerrorDick Donovan
- Tales of Terror and MysteryArthur Conan Doyle
- Tales of the Malayan CoastRounsevelle Wildman
- Tales of Two CountriesAlexander Kielland
- The Adventures of HeineEdgar Wallace
- The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle
- The Ambulance Made Two TripsMurray Leinster
- The Ape, the Idiot & Other PeopleW. C. Morrow
- The Best Short Stories of 1919
- The Best Short Stories of 1920Unknown
- The black kissRobert Bloch
- The Blue ScarabR. Austin Freeman
- The Book of DragonsE. Nesbit
- The call of CthulhuH. P. Lovecraft
- The Canterville GhostOscar Wilde
- The Case-Book of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle
- The Cask of AmontilladoEdgar Allan Poe
- The Club of Queer TradesG. K. Chesterton
- The Country of the Blind, and Other StoriesH. G. Wells
- The Crimson Gardenia and OtherRex Beach
- The Damned ThingAmbrose Bierce
- The DecameronGiovanni Boccaccio
- The Dream DetectiveSax Rohmer
- The Dunwich horrorH. P. Lovecraft
- The Empty House and Other Ghost StoriesAlgernon Blackwood
- The Eternal Moment, and Other StoriesE. M. Forster
- The Four MillionO. Henry
- The Garden Party, and Other StoriesKatherine Mansfield
- The Ghost of Charlotte CrayFlorence Marryat
- The House of SoulsArthur Machen
- The Hungry Stones, and Other StoriesRabindranath Tagore
- The Inimitable JeevesP. G. Wodehouse
- The Innocence of Father BrownG. K. Chesterton
- The Jungle BookRudyard Kipling
- The King in YellowRobert W. Chambers
- The Last of the LegionsArthur Conan Doyle
- The Legend of Sleepy HollowWashington Irving
- The Life-EaterHarold Ward
- The Lock and Key Library
- The Magic CasketR. Austin Freeman
- The magnificent possessionIsaac Asimov
- The Man Upstairs and Other StoriesP. G. Wodehouse
- The Man Who Saved New YorkRay Cummings
- The mark of the monsterJack Williamson
- The Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle
- The Monkey’s PawW. W. Jacobs
- The Open Boat and Other StoriesStephen Crane
- The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost StoriesRudyard Kipling
- The Red Fairy BookAndrew Lang
- The Red TriangleArthur Morrison
- The Return of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle
- The Second Jungle BookRudyard Kipling
- The Secret of Father BrownG. K. Chesterton
- The Shunned HouseH. P. Lovecraft
- The Singing Mouse StoriesEmerson Hough
- The Stolen Bacillus and Other IncidentsH. G. Wells
- The Trimmed LampO. Henry
- The Upper BerthF. Marion Crawford
- The Wisdom of Father BrownG. K. Chesterton
- The Yellow WallpaperCharlotte Perkins Gilman
- The £1,000,000 Bank-NoteMark Twain
- They Return at EveningHerbert Russell Wakefield
- This Star Shall Be FreeMurray Leinster
- Three Ghost StoriesCharles Dickens
- Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New YorkLemuel Ely Quigg
- Trial by waterSewell Peaslee Wright
- Twenty-Five Ghost Stories
- Twice-Told TalesNathaniel Hawthorne
- Vecchie storie d'amoreAdolfo Albertazzi
- Victorian Short Stories: Stories of CourtshipUnknown
- Wanted—?Eugene Cunningham
- Weird Tales, No. 1Various
- Weird Tales, No. 4Various
- Western CharactersJohn Ludlum McConnel
- Where Angels Fear to TreadMorgan Robertson
- White Nights, and Other StoriesFyodor Dostoyevsky
- Winesburg, OhioSherwood Anderson
- Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Index)Edgar Allan Poe
- Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 1Edgar Allan Poe
- Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 2Edgar Allan Poe