Short Story Books

Mate In Two Moves

  [english | 1954]  

Winston Marks

Summary: [Murts Virus was catastrophically lethal but it killed in a way no disease had ever thought of?it loved its victims to death!]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 58

Mcilvaine Star

  [english | 1952]  

August Derleth

Summary: [Old Thaddeus McIlvaine discovered a dark star and took it for his own. Thus he inherited a dark destiny--or did he?]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 28

Meeting Of The Board

  [english | 1963]  

Alan Nourse

Summary: [Meeting Of The Board by Alan Edward Nourse. Meeting of the Board is presented here in a high quality kindle edition. This popular classic work by Alan Edward Nourse is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Alan Edward Nourse then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.]
Genres: [science fiction | short story | post 1930] Downloads: 68

Melisande

  [english | 1901]  

E Nesbit

Summary: [Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland 15 August 1858 - 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet whose childrens works were published under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children several of which have been adapted for film and television. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society a precursor to the modern Labour Party.]
Genres: [short story | young readers] Downloads: 457

Memoria Sobre A Descoberta Das Ilhas De Porto Santo E

  [english | 1875]  

Emiliano Augusto De Bettencourt

Excerpts: [... europeia. N'esta terra, cujo senhorio el-rei havia dado a D. Henrique, fundou elle uma villa, que se denominou do Infante, e a qual devia servir para ...... por capito donatario da ilha, Bartholomeu Perestrello, fidalgo da casa do infante D. Joo. Chegados que foram ilha de Porto Santo construiram suas ...... tendo desembarcado em diversas angras e perado no interior, voltaram a dar ...]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 389

Mex

  [english | 1957]  

William Logan

Summary: [William Logan Harris (4 November 1817 - 2 September 1887) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church elected in 1872.]
Genres: [short story | horror | post 1930] Downloads: 145

Midnight In Beauchamp Row

  [english | 1895]  

Anna Katharine Green

Excerpts: [... to its deep, sloping roof and small bediamonded windows it had a lonesome look at night, notwithstanding the crimson hall-light which shone through ...... ride over to Fairbanks to-night. Mr. Pierson has given me an imperative order to conclude a matter of business there, and it is very important that ...... she would have to stay alone, and he only hoped she would be brave and go ...]
Genres: [short story | mysterydetective | audiobook] Downloads: 479

Millennium

  [english | 1955]  

Everett Cole

Summary: [The Third Millennium: A History of the World AD 2000-3000 is a 1985 book written by Brian Stableford and David Langford. It is a fictional historical account from the perspective of the year 3000 A.D. giving a future history of humanity and its technological and sociologial developments. Some of these developments include: Implementation of fusion power. Genetic engineering including Life ...]
Genres: [short story | post 1930 | science fiction] Downloads: 436

Minnie Vs Dannie

  [english | 1906]  

Wallace Irwin

Excerpts: [... MAGAZINE, JULY 1906. Four o'clock spoke glumly through the musty corridors of City Hall. The day's serious business of dodging issues and begging ...... door of Court No. 10 swung open. A fat man with a black beard was stolidly leading a little girl by the hand. She was crying softly. A large woman ...... gentlemanly witness, a short man of huge shoulders, grinned with careful ...]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 477

Miss Cal

  [english | 1911]  

Elizabeth Robins

Summary: [Miss Marples Final Cases and Two Other Stories is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club in October 1979 retailing at lb4.50. It was the last Christie book to be published under the Collins Crime Club imprint although HarperCollins continue to be the writers UK publishers. The book contains eight short stories and did not appear in ...]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 141

Miss Hinch

  [english | 1911]  

Henry Sydnor Harrison

Excerpts: [... of the street, in the nature of things the coincidence is likely to attract the attention of one or the other of them. In the bright light of the ...... to the discarded ten-o' clock extra lying by his side. She removed her dim gaze and let it travel casually about the car but before long it returned ...... hand. The woman opened the paper with decent cotton-gloved fingers. The ...]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 71

Moment Of Truth

  [english | 1957]  

Basil Eugene Wells

Summary: [Basil Wells who lives in Pennsylvania has been doing research concerning life in the area during the period prior to and following the War of 1812. Here he turns to a different problem?the adjustment demanded of a pioneer woman not in those days but Tomorrow?on Mars.]
Genres: [short story | post 1930 | science fiction] Downloads: 181

Monkey On His Back

  [english | 1960]  

Charles De Vet

Excerpts: [... Who he was, and what he was doing here, was clouded. The truth lurked in some corner of his consciousness, but it was not reached by surface awareness. The ...... against the side of his skull. The starch went out of his legs. Do you make anything out of it? the psychoanalyst Milton Bergstrom, asked. John Zarwell ...... derivative that's been well tested. The floor beneath ...]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 121

Monsoons Of Death

  [english | 1942]  

Gerald Vance

Summary: [Monsoons Of Death by Gerald Vance. Monsoons of Death appeared in the December 1942 issue of Amazing Stories. Ward Harrison got himself into a barrel of trouble when he accepted a job at the Martian Observation Station. There were fearful things on Mars....]
Genres: [short story | horror | post 1930] Downloads: 393

Mr Binns And The Bishop

  [english | 1901]  

Albert Fleming

Excerpts: [... dressed in rusty black. Notwithstanding these personal drawbacks, he is now a Canon of the Church, and people who are supposed to know say he is on ...... of the world and all its ways. To all intents and purposes, he lived in Abyssinia and seldom emerged from the 4th Century. Now it fell out one day that ...... and it appeared that his ?50 had made ?300 this struck the Bishop as a ...]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 354

Mr Brogden City Clerk

  [english | 1899]  

George Gissing

Excerpts: [... no chance of a customer. Mr. Brogden looked back on sixteen years of married life his age was now forty, and he had eight children. It was one of ...... to shine, he would often have preferred to travel City-wards on the top of a Nag's Head omnibus but this might not be, and for the simple reason that ...... querulous tone. She had altogether lost the habit of fondling her children,...]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 353

Mr Chipfellow Jackpot

  [english | 1856]  

Dick Purcell

Summary: [Being one of the richest men in the world it was only natural that many people anticipated the day he would die. For someone should claim]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 91

Mre Girauds Little Daughter

  [english | 1877]  

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Summary: [A lovely young woman writes from Paris of her marriage to a wealthy man but her proud mother becomes uneasy. Subtly told but predictable.]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 212

Mrs General Talboys

  [english | 1864]  

Anthony Trollope

Excerpts: [... some thirty or thirty-three years of age, with soft, peach-like cheeks,-rather too like those of a cherub, with sparkling eyes which were hardly large ...... we have no concern. Enthusiasm also, as I think, leans to virtue's side or, at least, if it be a fault, of all faults it is the prettiest. But then, ...... conventionalities of a religion in which she said that none of its ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | short story] Downloads: 21

Mrs Lirriper Legacy

  [english | 1864]  

Charles Dickens

Excerpts: [... putting them on by guess-work like hats at a party and no more knowing what their effect will be upon the smoke bless you than I do if so ...... general as wrong as the real) and when I says laughing What appointment am I to hold in this undertaking gentlemen. Jemmy hugs me round the neck and ...... more like one of those spills for lighting candles than a note, offering me the ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | short story] Downloads: 309