0
*
0
*
1450
2025
book-filter
Work cover

A Book of Short Stories

  • J. M. Barrie,
  • Frank R. Stockton,
  • Stuart Pratt Sherman,
  • Edgar Allan Poe,
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne,
  • Washington Irving,
  • O. Henry,
  • Rudyard Kipling,
  • Robert Louis Stevenson,
  • Thomas Hardy,
  • Charles Dickens,
  • Stuart Pratt Sherman

5.00

1 ratings

Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The minister's black veil. Ethan Brand. Edgar Allan Poe: Fall of the House of Usher, the gold-bug. Charles Dickens: The signalman. Frank Stockton: The lady, or the tiger. Thomas Hardy: The three strangers. Robert Louis Stevenson: Will o' the mill, The Sire de Maletroit's door. Sir James Matthew Barrie: The courting of T'nowhead's Bell. O. Henry: Phœbe. Rudyard Kipling: The man who was.

Genres

  • American Short stories
  • English Short stories
  • Short stories
  • short story
  • sextons
  • clergy
  • American Horror tales
  • burial vaults
  • catalepsy
  • dragons
Already read

1

people already read

Currently reading

0

people are currently reading

Want to read

3

people want to read

About the authors

  • J. M. Barrie

    9 May 1860 - 19 June 1937

    3.85

    117 ratings · 1603 works

  • Frank R. Stockton

    1834 - 1902

    4.35

    17 ratings · 564 works

  • Stuart Pratt Sherman

    1881 - 1926

    5.00

    1 ratings · 45 works

  • Edgar Allan Poe

    19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849

    4.16

    430 ratings · 4050 works

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

    4 July 1804 - 19 May 1864

    3.63

    240 ratings · 1923 works

  • Washington Irving

Editions

  • Edition cover

    Henry Holt and Company

    1914

  • Edition cover

    Franklin Classics Trade Press

    Oct 22, 2018

  • Edition cover

    Franklin Classics Trade Press

    Oct 22, 2018

  • Edition cover

    Franklin Classics

    Oct 10, 2018

  • Fiction
  • gothic fiction
  • hermitages
  • heroic romances
  • horror
  • horror tales
  • hysteria
  • knights
  • maces
  • psychogenic death
  • tarns
  • 3 April 1783 - 28 November 1859

    4.11

    65 ratings · 1786 works

  • O. Henry

    11 September 1862 - 5 June 1910

    3.95

    64 ratings · 448 works

  • Rudyard Kipling

    30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936

    3.85

    189 ratings · 4066 works

  • Robert Louis Stevenson

    13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894

    3.85

    341 ratings · 8274 works

  • Thomas Hardy

    2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928

    3.83

    102 ratings · 3693 works

  • Charles Dickens

    7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870

    3.84

    728 ratings · 6585 works

  • Stuart Pratt Sherman

    5.00

    1 ratings · 17 works

  • Edition cover

    Henry Holt and Company

    1914

  • Edition cover

    Henry Holt and Company

    1914

  • Edition cover

    H. Holt and Co.

    1932

  • Edition cover

    Creative Media Partners, LLC

    2018

  • Edition cover

    Books for Libraries Press

    1971