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Short stories — 245 PDFs & ePubs
245 classic short stories books · free in PDF & EPUB
Whole worlds in a single sitting: the short story is where the classics come easiest, and this shelf gathers the form's masters — Poe, Dostoevsky, Christie, Lovecraft. Everything is free to download in PDF or EPUB, or to read online between two other things you were doing.
White Nights is the library's runaway favorite — Dostoevsky at his tenderest, four nights long. The Fall of the House of Usher is gothic perfection in under an hour, and The Yellow Wallpaper has lost none of its claustrophobic power since 1892.
New to short stories? Start here
White Nights
Four nights, two strangers on a bridge, and the tenderest heartbreak Dostoevsky ever wrote.
Masters of short stories
The authors who built the genre — all their books free in the library.
All short stories books
245 books, sorted however you like.
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A Country Doctor
A Descent into the Maelström
A Dog's Tale
A Dreamer's Tales
A Gentle Spirit
A Haunted House
A House of Pomegranates
A Hunger Artist
A Little Hero
A Predicament
A Rose for Emily
A hidden gem from this shelf
Dream Days
Grahame bottles the private weather of childhood—its brave logic, secret games, and the tender comedy of adults nearby.
A set of six
A Simple Soul
A Tangled Tale
A Winter amid the Ice and other Thrilling Stories
Aesop's Fables
All the Sad Young Men
Amy Foster
An honest thief
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Arsène Lupin
Arsène Lupin vs. Herlock Sholmès
Arson Plus
Bartleby, The Scrivener
Bayou Folk
Berenice
Beyond Lies the Wub
Black Hound of Death
Bobok
Brother Jacob
Cabbages and Kings
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
Children of the Bush
Children of the Frost
Collection of short stories
Cool Air
Crooked Souls
Dagon
Death at the Excelsior
Dig me no grave
Dracula's Guest
Dream Days
Dubliners
Dutch Courage and Other Stories
Eleonora
Exemplary Novels
Flappers and Philosophers
Freedom
From Beyond
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Grimms' Fairy Tales
Herbert West-Reanimator
Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit
His Last Bow
Hop Frog
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
In Our Time
In Search of the Unknown
In the Penal Colony
Japanese Fairy Tales
John Silence Stories
Jungle Tales of Tarzan
Just So Stories
Kerfol
Ligeia
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Markheim
Master and Man
May Day
Men Without Women
Micromegas
Monday or Tuesday
More Celtic Fairy Tales
Morella
Mortal Coils
Mosses from an Old Manse
MS. Found in a Bottle
Mumu
My Man Jeeves
Nobody's Story
Odour of Chrysanthemums
Old Mr. Wiley
On Ghosts
One Thousand and One Nights
Partners in Crime
Pickman's Model
Piper in the Woods
Poirot Investigates
Rip van Winkle
Sailor's Knots
Sanctuary
Second Variety
Shadow: A Parable
Spirits Rebellious
Stories for Children
Sun
Tales of Space and Time
Tales of the Alhambra
Tales of the Five Towns
Tales of the Jazz Age
Tales of Unrest
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
The Adventure of the Crooked Man
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter
The Adventure of the Resident Patient
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
The Bet and Other Stories
The Big Trip Up Yonder
The Birthmark
The Black Cat
The Body Snatcher
The Book of Dragons
The Book of Wonder
The bottle imp
The Call of Cthulhu
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterville Ghost
The Case of the Missing Will
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
The Cask of Amontillado
The Cats of Ulthar
The Celestial Omnibus and other stories
The Chocolate Box
The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh
The Clicking of Cuthbert
The colour out of space
The Confessions of Arsene Lupin
The Country of the Blind
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
The crocodile
The Crystal Crypt
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Decameron
The Devil
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
The Door in the wall
The Double Clue
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
The Dreams in the Witch House
The Dunwich Horror
The Eight Strokes of the Clock
The empty house
The Eyes Have It
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Faith Of Men
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Festival
The Garden Party and other stories
The Gift of the Magi
The Gods of Pegana
The Gold-Bug
The Golden Age
The Grand Inquisitor
The Hanging Stranger
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
The Haunter of the Dark
The Heir Of Mondolfo
The Horror at Red Hook
The Hungry Stones
The Hunter's Lodge Case
The Hyena
The Ice Palace
The Imp of the Perverse
The Innocence of Father Brown
The Invisible Girl
The Judge's House
The King in Yellow
The Lady of the Barge
The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
The Lady, or the Tiger?
The Landlady
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories
The Loom of Destiny
The Luck of Roaring Camp
The Lurking Fear
The Magic World
The man that corrupted Hadleyburg
The Man Who Would Be King
The Man Whom the Trees Loved
The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories
The Mantle, and Other Stories
The Masque of the Red Death
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Million Pound Bank Note
The Minister's Black Veil
The Monkey's Paw
The Mortal Immortal
The Most Dangerous Game
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Music of Erich Zann
The Mysterious Mr. Quin
The Nameless City
The Oblong Box
The Old Man of the Sea
The Open Window
The Outsider
The Oval Portrait
The Piazza Tales
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Plymouth Express Affair
The Power of Words
The Premature Burial
The Purloined Letter
The Queen of Spades
The Rats in the Walls
The Red Room
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Rocking-Horse Winner
The Secret of Father Brown
The Secret Sharer
The Shunned House
The Silver Key
The Son of the Wolf
The Statement of Randolph Carter
The Story of the Siren
The Sword of Welleran
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Toll-House
The Tomb
The Vampire Maid
The Veiled Lady
The Well
The Wendigo
The willows
The Wisdom of Father Brown
The Witness for the Prosecution
The Wrong Man
The Yellow Wallpaper
Time and the Gods
To Build a Fire
Twice-told tales
Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit
Unready to Wear
When the World Screamed
White Nights
William Wilson
Winesburg, Ohio
Winter Dreams
Youth