Short Stories
by Collection & Author
The Children's Library
Children's stories bless us twice. The first time they are read to us. The second time, we read them to a child.
Hans Christian Andersen
The magical author of The Ugly Duckling, The Princess and the Pea, and The Brave Tin Soldier, also wrote poignant short stories enjoyed by readers of all ages, including The Last Dream of Old Oak and the tender, bittersweet Christmas classic The Little Matchstick Girl.
Halloween Stories
A collection of great stories, especially about ghosts-- scary stories to lift your spirits for Halloween! Enjoy not-scary Halloween Stories for Children.
Pre-K Read-Aloud Stories
Wonderful stories to read with your beginner reader so they will become confident, life-long readers!
Short Story Collections
20 Great American Short Stories
Short Stories for Elementary School
Short Stories for Middle School
Foodie & Thanksgiving Stories
Halloween Stories
Christmas StoriesShort Story of the Day
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Japanese Fairy Tales
A fanciful collection of Fairy Tales collected and translated by Grace James. These imaginative and original fables are interesting reading for grown-ups rather than children.
The Brothers Grimm
wrote some of the most famous children's stories and fairy-tales of all time, including; The Brave Little Tailor, Little Briar-Rose (aka Sleeping Beauty), Rapunzel, The Elves and the Shoemaker, Rumplestiltskin, & more See our Favorite Fairy Tales by Age.
Ghost, Gothic & Horror
A collection of great stories featuring ghosts, ghouls, vampires, and other supernatural phenomena.
World War I Stories
Short Stories, poetry, novels, and interesting propaganda conveying the cruel realities of a new kind of war.
75 Short Short Stories
Great stories to enjoy when you have five minutes: witty, introspective, morality tales, sci-fi, feel-good, drama, and farce.
Short Story Authors
Here is an abbreviated list of short story writers that you can find at this site:
Sherwood Anderson
T.S. Arthur
L. Frank Baum
Ambrose Bierce
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Algernon Blackwood
Giovanni Boccaccio
Robert W. Chambers
Anton Chekhov
Kate Chopin
Stephen Crane
Roald Dahl
Philip K. Dick
Charles Dickens
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Edna Ferber
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Bret Harte
W. F. Harvey
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ernest Hemingway
O. Henry
Washington Irving
Shirley Jackson
W. W. Jacobs
Henry James
M.R. James
Langston Hughes
Rudyard Kipling
Stephen Leacock
Jack London
H. P. Lovecraft
Arthur Machen
Guy de Maupassant
Herman Melville
H.H. Munro (SAKI)
Liam O'Flaherty
Edgar Allan Poe
Frank Stockton
Ivan S. Turgenev
Mark Twain
H.G. Wells
Edith Wharton
Oscar Wilde
Yeah, there's more . . . All Authors
Pulitzer Prize Winners
Pulitzer Prize winning novels, poetry, drama, and biographies in the public domain and author profiles.
Dystopian Stories
Science Fiction stories where everything goes wrong: bad technology, lost freedom, environmental destruction.
Short Story of The Day
We select a new short story to feature every day of the year -- well, almost every day!
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