General Fiction

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the Ame..

The Absent-Minded Coterie, a short story published in 1906, tells of a cunning scam devised by crook..

Written by Charles Felton Pidgin, The Affair of Lamson's Cook, is a mystery involving Quincy Adams S..

Private detective Horace Dorrington sees no conflict in helping himself while helping his clients. A..

After a woman reports seing a murder victim, the body suddenly disappears. Arthur Morrison's fiction..

William Fryer Harvey (April 14, 1885 - June 4, 1937), known as W. F. Harvey, was an English writer o..

Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his detective stories, he also wrote other short sto..

"The Bell-Tower," published in 1856, is the story of an eccentric architect named Bannadonna and his..

The Boy and Girl is a parable about a boy and girl, playing on a beach, growing old together.--- AU..

The Boy and Girl is a parable about a boy and girl, playing on a beach, growing old together.--- AU..

The Brain That Wouldn't Die (also known as The Head That Wouldn't Die or The Brain That Couldn't Die..

Death is always wanting, always waiting... In a zombie-infested world, where death and danger lurk ..

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts. His ancestors include John Hathorn..

Louisa May Alcott's short story "The Brothers" is set during the Civil War, Narrated by a wartime nu..

In this mystical short story, the author recalls frequenting a Broadway cafeteria where he would mee..