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By: Alan Edward Nourse (1928-1992)

Book cover Image of the Gods
Book cover My Friend Bobby
Book cover The Dark Door
Book cover Second Sight
Book cover The Native Soil
Book cover Letter of the Law
Book cover The Coffin Cure
Marley's Chain by Alan Edward Nourse Marley's Chain
Book cover Circus
Book cover Meeting of the Board
Book cover PRoblem
Book cover The Link

By: Alan Mattox

Book cover Shepherd of the Planets

By: Albert Hernhuter

Book cover Texas Week
Book cover The Smiler

By: Albert Teichner

Book cover Cerebrum
Book cover Man Made
Book cover Sweet Their Blood and Sticky

By: Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

Book cover Mortal Coils

Aldous Huxley is best known as a philosopher and novelist – notably as the author of Brave New World. He also wrote poetry, short stories and critical essays. Most of his work is somewhat dark and mildly sardonic, partly because he came of age just after World War I, when all of Europe was in a state of cultural, political and social confusion. His novel, Crome Yellow, is a prime example. Mortal Coils includes four short stories and a play, including one of the author’s most famous short works: "The Gioconda Smile." - Summary by Kirsten Wever

By: Aleksandr Kuprin (1870-1938)

Book cover Sasha

Kuprin is well-known to Russian readers and has been described as one of the last exponents of Russian critical realism. He first made a career as an officer in the army, but he left this work to take on employment as varied as journalist, hunter, fisherman, actor, and circus worker. His literary fame was launched with the publication in 1905 of Poyedinok . Here are 12 short stories from Alexander Kuprin. - Summary by KevinS

By: Alex James

Book cover The Shining Cow

By: Alexander Blade

Book cover Zero Hour

By: Alfred Coppel (1921-2004)

Book cover The Hills of Home
The Invader by Alfred Coppel The Invader
Book cover The Peacemaker
Turning Point by Alfred Coppel Turning Point
Book cover Turnover Point

By: Alfred Edgar Coppard (1878-1957)

The Best British Short Stories of 1922 by Alfred Edgar Coppard The Best British Short Stories of 1922

Twenty-four short stories by famous and not-so-famous British authors.

By: Alfred Henry Lewis (1857-1914)

Book cover How The Raven Died 1902, From "Wolfville Nights"

By: Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951)

Book cover Four Weird Tales

Four stories: The Insanity of Jones, The Man Who Found Out, The Glamour of the Snow, and Sand. Tales by one the greatest practitioners of supernatural literature. Reincarnation, the Occult, and mystery.

By: Algis Budrys (1931-2008)

Book cover The Stoker and the Stars

By: Alice Brown (1857-1948)

Book cover Tiverton Tales
Book cover Tiverton Tales

By: Alicia Catherine Mant (1788-1869)

Book cover Blue Jar Story Book

This is a collection of 6 delightful stories about children by some of the best authors of the period: Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Maria Edgeworth and Alicia Catherine Mant. These stories are well written and although they feature children and their escapades, clearly can be enjoyed by adults as well if not more.

By: Allan Howard

Book cover It's a Small Solar System

By: Allan Ramsay (1866-1932)

Book cover Told in the Coffee House

In the course of a number of visits to Constantinople, I became much interested in the tales that are told in the coffee houses. These are usually little more than rooms, with walls made of small panes of glass. The furniture consists of a tripod with a contrivance for holding the kettle, and a fire to keep the coffee boiling. A carpeted bench traverses the entire length of the room. This is occupied by turbaned Turks, their legs folded under them, smoking nargilehs or chibooks or cigarettes, and sipping coffee...

By: Allen Kim Lang (1928-)

Book cover Blind Man's Lantern
Book cover The Great Potlatch Riots

By: Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897)

Book cover Artists' Wives
Book cover Monday Tales

This is a collection of short stories by Alphonse Daudet. The stories paint an incredibly vivid picture of life in continental Europe before the turn of the last century. The settings of the stories also take us all over France, Belgium, and Germany, with little excursions also outside of those countries. The spirit of Europe of the 19th century is palpable, and described in a way few writers can. - Summary by Carolin

By: Alvin Heiner

Book cover The Stowaway

By: Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)

The Parenticide Club by Ambrose Bierce The Parenticide Club

Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914?), best known as journalist, satirist and short story writer. Cynical in outlook, economical in style; Bierce vanished while an observer with Pancho Villa’s army. Four grotesque short stories about murder within the family, seen through the gently innocent eyes of family members … usually the murderer himself.My favorite murder (00:23)Oil of Dog (20:13)An Imperfect Conflagration (29:32)The Hypnotist (37:14)

Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce Can Such Things Be?

24 short stories in fairly typical Bierce fashion - ghostly, spooky, to be read (or listened to) in the dark, perhaps with a light crackling fire burning dimly in the background. Stories of ghosts, apparitions, and strange, inexplicable occurrences are prevalent in these tales, some of which occur on or near Civil War fields of battle, some in country cottages, and some within urban areas. Can Such Things Be? implies and relates that anything is possible, at any time.

Book cover An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
In the Midst of Life; Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce In the Midst of Life; Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

These stories detail the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. This is the 1909 edition. The 1909 edition omits six stories from the original 1891 edition; these six stories are added to this recording (from an undated English edition). The 1891 edition is entitled In The Midst Of Life; Tales Of Soldiers And Civilians. The Wikipedia entry for the book uses the title Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – after December 26, 1913) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satirist...

Book cover The Damned Thing 1898, From "In the Midst of Life"
Book cover Fantastic Fables

By: Amy Walton (1848-1899)

Book cover Kitchen Cat and Other Stories

These are three stories that will delight your heart and soul. The little girl Ruth in the first story is very privileged young lady with everything she could wish for except,of course, for companionship. Her mother has passed away and her father is a very busy lawyer who barely notices she is there. But then Ruth finds a scruffy, skinny and mostly ugly cat; the cat who lives in the kitchen and cellars,hence The Kitchen Cat. Her attempts to befriend this stray despite insurmountable obstsacles make this story a really heart warming tale...

By: Anatole France (1844-1924)

Book cover The Well of Saint Clare
Book cover Balthasar and Other Works - 1909
Book cover Putois 1907

By: Anderson Horne

Book cover The Day of the Dog

By: Andre Norton (1912-2005)

Book cover All Cats Are Gray
Book cover The Gifts of Asti

By: Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

The Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang The Arabian Nights

The Arabian Nights is a collection of Perso-Arabic folk tales and other stories. The collection, or at least certain stories drawn from it (or purporting to be drawn from it), became widely known in the West from the 18th century, after it was translated from the Arabic — first into French and then into English and other European languages. The first English language edition, based on Galland’s French rather than the original Arabic, rendered the title as The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment – and this, or simply The Arabian Nights, has been the title by which it has been best known to English-speaking people ever since.

The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang The Pink Fairy Book

All people in the world tell nursery tales to their children, and the stories are apt to be like each other everywhere. A child who has read the Blue and Red and Yellow Fairy Books will find some old friends with new faces in the Pink Fairy Book. Courage, youth, beauty, kindness, have many trials, but they always win the battle; while witches, giants, unfriendly cruel people, are on the losing hand. So it ought to be, and so, on the whole, it is and will be; and that is all the moral of fairy tales...

The Olive Fairy Book by Andrew Lang The Olive Fairy Book

Andrew Lang’s Olive Fairy Book (1907) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was one of many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books.

Book cover The Disentanglers
Book cover Grass of Parnassus

By: Anna Fuller (1853-1916)

Book cover A Bookful of Girls

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