General Fiction

From celebrated journalist Janet Flanner, “The Escape of Mrs. Jeffries,” published in May 1943, port..

Geoffrey Childs, born in 1946, sketches this fictional scene: When a pair of climbers does not retur..

"The Garden Lodge" is a short story by Willa Cather, first published in 1905. It tells the story of ..

“The Hermit’s Story,” a short story by Rick Bass, brings readers to a remote, mountainous place wher..

First published in April, 1910, "The Horse of the Invisible" tells the tale of Carnacki, a ghost det..

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaz..

The House of Pride, written by iconic American author Jack London (1876-1916), was first published i..

In "The Infallible Godahl," published in 1914, a criminal uses one of Armiston's mystery stories as ..

Jack London was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer i..

American author Kate Chopin's "The Kiss" was written on September 19, 1894, and first published in V..

After spending the summer of 1853 in the Berkshire Mountains, where he supposedly had a real life en..

"The Man Who Liked Dickens" is the tale of an upper-class Englishman who, in an effort to win back h..

In addition to writing as a reporter uncovering the conditions of public health in the United States..

Two leading London barristers--Queen's Counsels--disappear during a murder trial, one for the prosec..

Coming to the aid of a man kicked by a rearing police horse, R. Austin Freeman's famous forsensic in..