Classic Short Stories


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DEAD WORLD BY JACK DOUGLAS

THE BARBARIANS BY ALGIS BUDRYS

A TRAVELER IN TIME BY AUGUST DERLETH

THE DUELING MACHINE BY BEN BOVA

THE BIG TRIP UP YONDER BY KURT VONNEGUT, JR

THE BLUE TOWER BY EVELYN E SMITH

OPERATION TERROR By MURRAY LEINSTER

PHILIP K DICK 10 EARLY TALES

THE CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT BY ROBERT E HOWARD

CONAN-QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST BY ROBERT E HOWARD

CONAN-THE DEVIL IN IRONS BY ROBERT E HOWARD

CONAN NOVEL - THE HOUR OF THE DRAGON BY ROBERT E HOWARD

CONAN-SHADOWS IN THE MOONLIGHT BY ROBERT E HOWARD

CONAN-SHADOWS IN ZAMBOULA BY ROBERT E HOWARD

CONAN-A WITCH SHALL BE BORN BY ROBERT E HOWARD

CONAN-BEYOND THE BLACK RIVER BY ROBERT E HOWARD

RED SHADOWS BY ROBERT E HOWARD

GODS OF THE NORTH BY ROBERT E HOWARD

THE HILLS OF THE DEAD BY ROBERT E HOWARD

SKULL IN THE STARS BY ROBERT E HOWARD

WINGS IN THE NIGHT BY ROBERT E HOWARD

THE SCARLET CITADEL BY ROBERT E HOWARD

THE MOON OF SKULLS BY ROBERT E HOWARD

THE CHAPTER ENDS BY POUL ANDERSON

SECOND VARIETY BY PHILIP K DICK

THE VARIABLE MAN BY PHILIP K DICK

SHORT NOVEL-ALIEN HARVEST BY ROBERT SHECKLEY

COP ON THE CORNER BY DAVID GOODIS

THE BIG BOUNCE BY WALTER S TEVIS

SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER BY DAVID GOODIS

PLANETOID OF PERIL BY PAUL ERNST

THE DARK WORLD BY HENRY KUTTNER

A FEW TALES BY FRITZ LEIBER

ILL MET IN LANKHMAR BY FRITZ LEIBER

NO GREAT MAGIC BY FRITZ LEIBER

WIND RISING BY ROBERT SHECKLEY

DARK PASSAGE BY DAVID GOODIS

EMPIRE OF TERROR BY ROBERT WALLACE

FANGS OF MURDER BY ROBERT WALLACE

TALES OF CHINATOWN BY SAX ROHMER

NIGHT SHOTS BY DASHIELL HAMMETT

NIGHT SQUAD BY DAVID GOODIS

NIGHTMARE TOWN BY DASHIELL HAMMETT

STREET OF NO RETURN BY DAVID GOODIS

THE PRIZE OF PERIL BY ROBERT SHECKLEY

THE BEAST IN THE CAVE BY H P LOVECRAFT

THE WHITE SHIP BY H P LOVECRAFT

RAIDERS OF THE RED DEATH BY EMILE C TEPPERMAN

CARGO OF DOOM BY EMILE C TEPPERMAN

VAMPIRES OF SPACE BY SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT

PROJECT MASTADON BY CLIFFORD D SIMAK

BRINK OF MADNESS BY WALT SHELDON

NIGHTFALL BY DAVID GOODIS

BLACK FRIDAY BY DAVID GOODIS

LEASE TO DOOMSDAY BY LEE ARCHER

THE MURDER MACHINE BY HUGH B CAVE

THE PLANET OF DREAD BY R F STARZL

THE ONSLAUGHT FROM RIGEL BY FLETCHER PRATT

THE HANGING STRANGER BY PHILIP K DICK

INVADERS FROM THE INFINITE BY JOHN W CAMPBELL

PLANET OF THE DAMNED BY HARRY HARRISON

THE VALLEY OF DREAMS BY STANLEY G WEINBAUM

THE PIGMY PLANET BY JACK WILLIAMSON

THE TERROR FROM THE DEPTH BY SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER BY EDGAR ALLEN POE

THE WORLD BEYOND BY RAY CUMMINGS

FOUR MILES WITHIN BY ANTHONY GILMORE

THE WORLD BEHIND THE MOON BY PAUL ERNST

THE BEAST OF SPACE BY F E HARDART

DEATHWORLD BY HARRY HARRISON

THE METEOR GIRL BY JACK WILLIAMSON

THE BLACK STAR PASSES BY JOHN W CAMPBELL

SAND DOOM BY MURRAY LEINSTER

THE DOOM FROM PLANET 4 BY JACK WILLIAMSON

THE WORSHIPPERS BY DAMON KNIGHT

THE DAY TIME STOPPED MOVING BY BRADNER BUCKNER

THE THING IN THE ATTIC BY JAMES BLISH

THE RUNAWAY SKYSCRAPER BY MURRAY LEINSTER

THE GRAVEYARD OF SPACE BY MILTON LESSER

RING ONCE FOR DEATH BY ROBERT ARTHUR

PLANET OF DREAM BY JAMES MCKIMMEY, JR

ASSASSIN BY J F BONE

A PLACE IN THE SUN BY JOHNNY MAYEM

VOODOO PLANET BY ANDREW NORTH

THE UNDERGROUND CITY BY JULES VERNE

THIS CROWDED EARTH BY ROBERT BLOCH

PLAGUE SHIP BY ANDRE NORTON

McILVAINE'S STAR BY AUGUST DERELITH

DEVIL'S ASTEROID BY MANLY WADE WELLMAN

THE VARIABLE MAN BY PHILIP K DICK

THE HATED BY PAUL FLEHR

THE SHUNNED HOUSE HP LOVECRAFT

THE WORLD THAT COULDN'T BE BY CLIFFORD D SIMAK

THE STREET THAT WASN'T THERE BY CLIFFORD D SIMAK

 

Classic Tales
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Tales by Anton Chekov

The Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov

The Door by E.B. White

Emily de Udolpho; or Agonisties

The Elephant's Child by Rudyard Kipling

The Sandman by Ernst T.W. Hoffmann

The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost by H.G. Wells

Celephais by H.P. Lovecraft

The Demon Spell by Hume Nisbet

The Hand by Guy de Maupassant

The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber

A Haunted  House by Virginia Woolf

Life Without Principle by Henry David Throeau

How the Leopard got His Spots by Rudyard Kipling

The Last Leaf by O. Henry

Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell

A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker

Shock Tactics by Saki

They by Rudyard Kipling

The Vacant Lot by Mary Wilkins

The Shadows on the Wall by Mary Wilkins

The Tomb by HP Lovecraft

The Beast of Averoigne by Clark Ashton Smith

The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner

The Signal Man by Charles Dickens

The Cob Web by Saki

A Night in New Arabia by O Henry

The House of the Dead Hand by Edith Wharton

Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

Extracts from Adam's Diary by Mark Twain

The Imp of the Perverse by Edgar Allan Poe

On the Gulls' Road by Willa Cather

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Gothic Fragments

Fragment by Lord Byron

The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad

The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley

The Dying Detective by Authur Conan Doyle

The Sussex Vampire by Aurthur Conan Doyle

The Case of Lady Sannox by Arthur Conan Doyle

The New Catacomb by Arthur Conan Doyle

A Case of Identity by Authur Conan Doyle

The Leather Funnel by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Spectre Bridegroom by Washington Irving

Westminster Abbey by Washington Irving

Importance by Manuel Mujica Lainez

The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs

The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams

The Storm by Jules Verne

A Ghost Story by Mark Twain

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway

Bear Hunt by Leo Tolstoy

The Gate of a Hundred Sorrows by Rudyard Kipling

The Valley of Spiders by H. G. Wells

A Moonlight Fable by H. G. Wells

The Star by H. G. Wells

The Cone by H. G. Wells

The Diamond Maker by H. G. Wells

5 Tales from the Tragedy and Comedy of Life by Guy de Maupassant

The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte

A Lonely Ride by Bret Harte

The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

The Shadow and the Flash by Jack London

The Whale Tooth by Jack London

The Faith of Men  by Jack London

A Relic of the Pliocene by Jack London

The One Thousand Dozen by Jack London.

Too Much Gold by Jack London

Moon-Face by Jack London

The Minions of Midas by Jack London

The Leopard Man's Story by Jack London

Araby by James Joyce

Little Cloud by James Joyce

The Maypole of Merry Mount by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Wedding Knell by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Lady Elanore's Mantle by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Haunted Mind by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Ambitious Guest by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Prophetic Pictures by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Bosom Serpent by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Hollow of the Three Hills by Nathaniel Hawthorne

One Summer Night by Ambrose G. Bierce

The Boarded Window by Ambrose G. Bierce

The Stranger by Ambrose G. Bierce

The Realm of the Unreal by Ambrose G. Bierce

Beyond the Wall by Ambrose G. Bierce

The Island of the Fay by Edgar Allan Poe

The Man That Was Used Up by Edgar Allan Poe

The Devil in the Belfry by Edgar Allan Poe

Shadow by Edgar Allan Poe

Mesmeric Revelation by Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe

Man of the Crowd by by Edgar Allan Poe

Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe

Some Words with a Mummy by Edgar Allan Poe

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

Berenice by Edgar Allen Poe

The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe

Ligeia by Edgar Allen Poe

The Sphinx by Edgar Allan Poe

The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe

Metzengerstein by Edgar Allan Poe

Thou Art The Man by Edgar Allan Poe

King Pest by Edgar Allan Poe

Silence - A Fable by Edgar Allan Poe

The Assignation by Edgar Allan Poe

Hop Frog by Edgar Allan Poe

Morella by Edgar Allen Poe

The Oblong Box by Edgar Allen Poe

Von Kempelen and his Discovery by Edgar Allen Poe

Mystification by Edgar Allan Poe

Eleonora by Edgar Allan Poe

Loss of Breath by Edgar Allen Poe

Anne Lisbeth by Hans Christian Anderson

The Old Grave-Stone by Hans Christian Andersen

The Shadow by Hans Christian Andersen

The Old House by Hans Christian Andersen

The Seed from the Sepulcher by Clark Ashton Smith

The Double Shadow by Clark Ashton Smith

The Ransom of Red Chief by O Henry

Tommy's Burglar by O. Henry

The Theory and the Hound by O. Henry

Tobermory by Saki

The Open Window by Saki

The Hounds of Fate by Saki

The Music on the Hill by Saki

The Haunted Author by Marcus Clarke

Monster of the Moon by Ray Cummings

The Villa Desiree by May Sarton

The Ghost by Anne Sexton

Short Work by Franz Kafka

The Ballad of Reading Goal by Oscar Wilde

Father's Last Escape by Bruno Schulz

The Feather Pillow by Horacio Quiroga

Clorinda by André Pieyre de Mandiargues

A Man by the Name of Ziegler by Hermann Hesse

The Catbird Seat by James Thurber

The Sick Gentleman's Last Visit by Giovanni Papini

The Outsider by H. P. Lovecraft

Last Will and Testament by Ray Russell

August 25 by Jorge Luis Borges

Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti .

Poetry by Shakespeare, Poe and Others

The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam