Short Stories For Adults

Edgar Allan Poe

The Tell-Tale Heart

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Scandal in Bohemia

Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall Of The House Of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe

The Purloined Letter

Ambrose Bierce

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure Of The Speckled Band

Edgar Allan Poe

The Masque Of The Red Death

Frank Stockton

The Lady, or the Tiger?

Edgar Allan Poe

The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Paradise Of Children

Ambrose Bierce

One Summer Night

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Man With The Twisted Lip

H. P. Lovecraft

Ex Oblivione

Stephen Leacock

My Financial Career

T.S. Arthur

Amy’s Question

O. Henry

The Ransom Of Red Chief

Edgar Allan Poe

Landor’s Cottage

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Young Goodman Brown

Anton Chekhov

Fat and Thin

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Great Stone Face

W. W. Jacobs

The Monkey’s Paw

Kate Chopin

The Night Came Slowly

Edgar Allan Poe

Silence—A Fable

Stephen Crane

A Dark Brown Dog

Edgar Allan Poe

The Pit And The Pendulum

Bret Harte

The Luck of Roaring Camp

Edgar Allan Poe

The Cask of Amontillado

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Case Of Identity

Edgar Allan Poe

The Island Of The Fay

Edgar Allan Poe

The Assignation

Kate Chopin

The Story of an Hour 

Jack London

To Build a Fire 

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Red-headed League

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Minister’s Black Veil

Edgar Allan Poe

Berenice

Edgar Allan Poe

The Thousand-and-Second Tale Of Scheherazade

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Boscombe Valley Mystery

Edgar Allan Poe

Von Kempelen And His Discovery

Edgar Allan Poe

Mesmeric Revelation

Edgar Allan Poe

Eleonora

Hanna Diyab

Abdullah The Fisherman And Abdullah The Merman

Susan Glaspell

A Jury of Her Peers

Edgar Allan Poe

The Black Cat

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Five Orange Pips

Edgar Allan Poe

The Domain Of Arnheim

Edgar Allan Poe

A Descent Into The Maelstrom

Herman Melville

Bartleby the Scrivener

O. Henry

Hearts And Hands

Edgar Allan Poe

The Imp Of The Perverse

Anton Chekhov

A Blunder

Edgar Allan Poe

The Premature Burial

Mark Twain

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Edgar Allan Poe

William Wilson

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle

O. Henry

The Gift of the Magi

Ellis Parker Butler

The Thin Santa Claus: The Chicken Yard That Was a Christmas Stocking

H. H. Munro

Reginald’s Christmas Revel

Truman Capote

A Christmas Memory

Elizabeth L. Seymour

The Burglar’s Christmas

Charles Dickens

A Christmas tree

Stephen Leacock

Merry Christmas

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

A Stolen Christmas

Stephen Leacock

The Errors of Santa Claus

Leo Tolstoy

Papa Panov’s Special Christmas

Dylan Thomas

A Child’s Christmas in Wales

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Christmas Jenny

Kate Chopin

The Storm

Kate Chopin

At the ‘Cadian Ball

Philip Kindred Dick

The Eyes Have It

Guy de Maupassant

The Diamond Necklace

Dr. Jonathan Swift

A Modest Proposal