Short Story Books

Buying A Horse

  [english | 1879]  

William Dean Howells

Summary: [Vignettes and decorations throughout.]
Genres: [short story | fiction and literature] Downloads: 38

Man Overboard

  [english | 1898]  

Winston Churchill

Summary: [Well written short that I remember reading in an old horror anthology years and years ago. It must be good because it always stuck in my memory. Most people mistakenly think this is the same Winston Churchill who was the powerhouse behind Britains defeat of the Nazis. In fact this is Churchill the American novelist. No not that Great Man but still a great man and a great writer.]
Genres: [short story | nautical] Downloads: 129

Brown John Body

  [english | 1955]  

Winston Marks

Summary: [Brown John S Body by Winston K Marks. Brown John s Body is presented here in a high quality kindle edition. This popular classic work by Winston K. Marks is in the English language and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Winston K. Marks then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 63

Forsyte Retreat

  [english | 1954]  

Winston Marks

Summary: [Sextus Rollo Forsyte had his trouble with the bottle but nothing out of a bottle ever produced such a hotel as the Mahoney-Plaza: only 260 rooms... only two guests to a room... but accommodating 5200 guests?all at the same time!... Floor please?]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 450

The Salesman

  [english | 1953]  

Waldo Boyd

Excerpts: [... Salesman, by Waldo T. Boyd. The EBook of The Salesman, by Waldo T. Title: The Salesman. Author: Waldo T. Boyd. Release Date: June 1, ...... modern 1995 customer who enters Tracy's Department Store is not always right, but as far as you are concerned, he is. The little green cue light blinked ...... This would be a green light customer-a first-time prospect, and three blinks ...]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 206

A Flier In Longevity

  [english | 1913]  

Wallace Irwin

Excerpts: [... a buxom village to an infant metropolis. On the strength of intemperate boosts for her temperate climate, she could now boast her seventy-five thousand ...... back yard where Mrs. Mary Casey's red hen scratched the roots of a real-estate sign. So Paradise must have looked when municipal improvement set in. The ...... mahogany of the Grand Hotel bar Brian observed State Senator ...]
Genres: [short story | humor | romance] Downloads: 182

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

Pelican Smith The Smuggler King

  [english | 1906]  

Wallace Irwin

Excerpts: [... foolin' with horses, sometimes with women, but I never took it poetical like Smuggler King Garcia, him bein' born to lisp in numbers, though he couldn't ...... The jug was supplying the stuff that dreams is composed of and Garcia was a Poet. So he stopped me and poured Mexican sunshine into me with a tin cup. Of ...... he loved an Injun girl who went and married a padrone. Then, ...]
Genres: [short story | pulp] Downloads: 213

The Little Booster Two Skyscrapers And Mrs Casey

  [english | 1913]  

Wallace Irwin

Excerpts: [... pride of booming San Bruno and that Mrs. Casey's lot was wanted as the site for a still more imposing structure was a secret so open that it was ...... did not walk, he ran for Mrs. Casey was taller and broader than most men, and at short range her dish-pan was a deadly weapon. C. W. Ketchum, from ...... a sacred rite, stood shoveling street litter on the pyre. Another workman, ...]
Genres: [short story | humor] Downloads: 259

The Lot Lottie Lottery

  [english | 1913]  

Wallace Irwin

Excerpts: [... by rolling uphill. So it was with Brian Boru Blaney, who, after his audacious sorties in the real estate market had been noised abroad, found himself ...... streets. The upstart editor of the Bay Center Herald, boasting his city's growth, had darkly hinted that San Bruno's population had been exaggerated ...... ideas storming the frowning heights of Possibility and falling back ...]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 445

The End Of Time

  [english | 1933]  

Wallace West

Summary: [Once On A Time is a fairy tale created by A. A. Milne. Written in 1917 Milnes own introduction begins This is an odd book and indeed it is very difficult to classify. Ostensibly a typical fairytale it tells the story of the war between the kingdoms of Euralia and Barodia and the political shenanigans which take place in Euralia in the kings absence all supposedly rewritten by Milne from the ...]
Genres: [short story | post 1930 | pulp] Downloads: 304

A Masque Of Days

  [english | 1901]  

Walter Crane

Summary: [Title printed on two leaves illustrated in colors.]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 384

The Russian Cipher

  [english | 1899]  

Walter Mansfield

Excerpts: [... no one in the world with an atom of brains. I don't want to go as Night or Morning, nor as Marguerite or Pierrette, or Madame la Pompadour. I want ...... costume.. I must have it, I cried it is incomparable.. It is sold, madame.. I will pay double.. Impossible.. Treble.. I ...... There was to be no unmasking time, but everyone was to be incognito from the beginning to the end. It ...]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 9

Houlihan Equation

  [english | 1955]  

Walter Sheldon

Summary: [The tiny spaceship had been built for a journey to a star. But its small mischievous pilots had a rendezvous with destiny--on Earth.]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 339

Jimsy And The Monsters

  [english | 1954]  

Walter Sheldon

Summary: [Silly but amusing little pulp story. They characters are playing canasta in it. For those of you under about 60 its a card game. Anyway the child star wanted really scary aliens and got them from a funny looking pulp scientist and his private lab. Whoa! They are REALLY scary and eat glass! How does the director tame them for good movie shots?]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 238

Little Britain

  [english | 1820]  

Washington Irving

Summary: [A tour thro the Whole Island of Great Britain is an account of his travels by English author Daniel Defoe first published in three volumes from 1724 to 1726. A non-fiction work that gives a matter-of-fact account of Defoes visits to various places at a time when there were no ready reference works. Anyone living in Great Britain may find their own locality described there. It is also a valuable ...]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 79

The Last Straw

  [english | 1963]  

William Smith

Excerpts: [... mechanical defects that we're sure of, no sabotage we can put our finger on, no murder or suicide schemes, nothing. We've put that plane back together ...... Pearlow.. Kessler frowned. Pearlow had reason to be nervous. You know he survived a crash just three years ago. But anyway, the fact remains ...... with a glass of sherry, that's why I was a little surprised.. Senator Brogan ...]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 74

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

Among The Panthans

  [english | 1891]  

William Murray Graydon

Summary: [Excerpt:When Jack Chetwynd dropped into the Bundar Cafe at Delhi one scorching afternoon in September of last year and informed me that we were ordered off to the Punjaub I could have shouted for joy. I did not do it though for I well knew how scornfully Jack would regard any such demonstration. I merely nodded my head lazily and went on reading the Post with as much calmness as if such news was ...]
Genres: [war | short story] Downloads: 428

The Basha Gorilla

  [english | 1910]  

William Patterson White

Excerpts: [... not essentially a sign of joy. No, said Jack Allis reflectively, it ain't a white man's country.. I made no reply. None was necessary. The only ...... yes, the women have cost me a lot of money one time and another.. With your share of the coin we made back in that little Cairo deal you can go back ...... kasba, and entered the town. In the narrow street where stood Ibrahim's house ...]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 252