Genre
Short Stories.
From fireside fairy tales to spine-tingling ghost stories, our short story shelves hold worlds in miniature. Whether you’re in the mood for the classic mischief of Aesop’s fables or the quiet horror of The Yellow Wallpaper, there’s a perfectly sized escape waiting for you. Each tale here proves that the smallest packages can hold the greatest wonders.

Children
Grimms' Fairy Tales
A lantern-lit path through the dark woods of storytelling, where every rustling leaf hides a lesson and every cottage door creaks with consequence.
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Children
Nights With Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation
Joel Chandler Harris's further gathering of the Uncle Remus tales, retelling the trickster stories of Brer Rabbit and his companions drawn from African American folklore.
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$7.50

Fiction
Astounding Stories, May, 1931
A single issue of the legendary pulp magazine from the golden dawn of science fiction, packed with tales of adventure, invention, and the unknown.
$8.00

Fiction
Astounding Stories, August, 1931
A vintage issue of the legendary pulp magazine Astounding Stories, packed with the science fiction adventures that thrilled readers in the genre's early heyday.
$8.00

Fiction
Sketches New and Old
A collection of Mark Twain's short comic pieces and sketches, ranging from tall tales to satire, showcasing the wit, mischief, and sharp social observation that made him America's
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$8.50

Children
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen’s tales mingle enchantment, wit, sorrow, and moral sharpness in one of the great story collections for all ages.
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$7.50

Classics
Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov
A gathering of short stories by Anton Chekhov, master of the modern form.
$8.50

Fiction
Shapes that Haunt the Dusk
A gathering of eerie and supernatural tales, where the ordinary world thins at the edges and something strange steps quietly through.
$8.50

Fantasy
Changeling, and Other Stories
A collection of short fiction gathered under the title of its lead story, "Changeling." A set of tales to be discovered on their own terms by the curious reader.
$8.50

Fiction
The best short stories of 1919, and the yearbook of the American short story
Edward J.
$8.50

Children
Italian Popular Tales
A rich collection of Italian folk stories gathered from oral tradition: fairy tales, legends, and comic anecdotes from across the peninsula.
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$7.50

Fiction
Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930
The very first issue of a legendary pulp magazine, this January 1930 number launched what would become a cornerstone of American science fiction.
$8.00

Children
Fifty-Two Stories For Girls
A generous story collection offering a tale for every week of the year, gathered for young readers.
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$7.50

Children
The Bakhtyār Nāma
A classic Persian frame-tale in which a young man, condemned to death, spins story after story to buy time and reveal the truth.
$7.50

Fiction
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
A collection of P.
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Children
Russian Fairy Tales
A vivid collection of Russian folk tales full of shape-shifting magic, dangerous bargains, brave children, and the strange logic of the old wonder tale.
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$7.50

Children
English Fairy Tales
A treasury of the tales England told its children, gathered from folk tradition.
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Children
Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers
A collection of tales gathered from the storytelling traditions of the East, bringing together stories of adventure, wisdom, and wonder.
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$7.50

Classics
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant
The full range of Maupassant's short fiction, from Norman farmhouses to Parisian salons.
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Children
Three hundred Aesop’s fables: Translated by George Fyler Townsend
Aesop's timeless fables in George Fyler Townsend's classic Victorian translation, three hundred brief tales in which animals speak and act out the enduring lessons of human folly,
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Horror
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
M.
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Horror
The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories
A collection of Rudyard Kipling's early supernatural and uncanny tales, set largely in colonial India, where the heat, the isolation and the guilt of the living conjure visitors wh
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$9.50

Horror
Twenty-Five Ghost Stories
A gathering of short supernatural tales for a shivery evening, hauntings, apparitions and uncanny visitations collected in the classic manner of the ghost-story anthology.
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$9.50

Fiction
Tales of Terror and Mystery
A collection of dark and suspenseful stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, ranging from the eerie to the horrifying.
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$9.50

Horror
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
Algernon Blackwood's unsettling tales of the uncanny, where dread seeps in through the ordinary.
$9.50

Classics
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
Boccaccio's dazzling collection of a hundred tales, told by young Florentines sheltering from the plague.
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Fiction
The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story
Edward J.
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Horror
The Damned Thing: 1898, From "In the Midst of Life"
Ambrose Bierce's chilling tale of an unseen menace, told at a coroner's inquest over a mangled corpse.
$9.50

Classics
His last bow : $b Some later reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes
A late gathering of Sherlock Holmes cases by Arthur Conan Doyle, ranging from cryptic country mysteries to wartime espionage, closing with the great detective's most sombre and mem
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Fiction
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories
A wide-ranging anthology of classic mystery and detective fiction, gathering tales of crime, deduction and the uncanny from many hands.
$9.50

Classics
The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
Kate Chopin's landmark novel of a woman's sensual and spiritual awakening, gathered with short stories that made her a pioneer of American literature.
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Children
Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables is a timeless collection of moral tales whose talking animals, clever reversals, and concise lessons have shaped storytelling for centuries.
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Classics
Complete Short Works of George Meredith
A gathering of the shorter fiction of George Meredith, the Victorian novelist and poet known for his psychological subtlety and glittering, demanding prose.
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$9.50

Mystery
The wisdom of Father Brown
The second collection of G.K.
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Children
River Legends
A gathering of legends and tales bound to the world of rivers and their waters.
$8.50

Fiction
Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship
A gathering of Victorian short fiction on the theme of courtship, in which love is pursued, tested and negotiated within the manners, hopes and constraints of nineteenth-century En
$9.50

Fiction
Hungry Hearts
Vivid stories of Jewish immigrant life on New York's Lower East Side, told with hunger, hope, and unsparing feeling.
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Fiction
The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe's masterpiece of cold revenge, told by a narrator luring his victim into the catacombs by the promise of a rare wine.
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Classics
One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories: Right Pleasaunte To Relate In All Goodly Companie By Way Of Joyance And Joll
A bawdy, high-spirited collection of Renaissance tales in the tradition of Boccaccio: a hundred short stories of wit, mischief, love, and folly, told for the pleasure of good compa
$9.50

Fiction
Minute Mysteries [Detectograms]
A collection of bite-sized detective puzzles, each a small crime laid out for the reader to solve in minutes — with the solution turning on a single telling detail.
$9.50

Classics
Dubliners
James Joyce's incomparable collection of stories mapping the everyday lives of early-twentieth-century Dublin.
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$9.50

Fiction
The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story
Edward J.
$9.50

Fiction
White nights, and other stories
A gathering of Dostoevsky's shorter fiction, led by the tender, aching "White Nights" — four luminous evenings in the life of a St Petersburg dreamer who loves too well and too lat
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$9.50

Fantasy
The King in Yellow
Robert W.
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Essays
Mosses from an Old Manse
Nathaniel Hawthorne's rich short-story collection gathers dark allegories and moral fables from his years in a Concord parsonage, probing sin, obsession and the shadowed corners of
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$7.50

Classics
Twice-Told Tales
A gathering of short stories and sketches, by turns allegorical, eerie and quietly moral.
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Fiction
The Open Boat and Other Stories
Stephen Crane turns his own shipwreck off the Florida coast into some of the sharpest short fiction in American literature.
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$6.50

Classics
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
A superb Sherlock Holmes collection featuring some of Arthur Conan Doyle's most memorable investigations and character moments.
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$8.00