Category
page 1American short stories
Flowers for Algernon
short story by Daniel Keyes, later expanded into a novel
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1820 short story by Washington Irving
The Pit and the Pendulum
story by Edgar Allan Poe
The Gift of the Magi
short story by O. Henry
Dagon
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
The Last Question
short story by Isaac Asimov first published in 1956
Nightfall
1941 short story by Isaac Asimov
The Nameless City
1921 short story by H. P. Lovecraft
The Music of Erich Zann
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
The Yellow Wall Paper
short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Herbert West—Reanimator
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
The Statement of Randolph Carter
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
The Tomb
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
The Most Dangerous Game
short story by Richard Connell
Polaris
1918 short story by H. P. Lovecraft
Who Goes There?
1938 novella by John W. Campbell
The Picture in the House
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
Celephaïs
"Celephaïs" () is a fantasy story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in early November 1920 and first published in the May 1922 issue of the Rainbow. It is part of the body of work which later came to be known as Lovecraft's Dream Cycle. The title refers to a fictional city that later appears in other Dream Cycle stories, including Lovecraft's novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926).
The Other Gods
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
The Lurking Fear
1923 short story by H. P. Lovecraft
Cool Air
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
Brokeback Mountain
short story by Annie Proulx
The Alchemist
short story by H.P. Lovecraft
Reason
short story by Isaac Asimov
The Quest of Iranon
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
The White Ship
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
The Lady, or the Tiger?
short story by Frank Stockton
The Street
1920 short story by H. P. Lovecraft
Memory
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
The Open Boat
1897 short story by Stephen Crane
From Beyond
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
The Beast in the Cave
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
The Egg
short story about the meaning and purpose of life and humankind
Nyarlathotep
prose poem
Good News from the Vatican
short story by Robert Silverberg
The Ugly Little Boy
short story by Isaac Asimov
The Ransom of Red Chief
short story by O. Henry
A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
Someday
short story by Isaac Asimov
Hypnos
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
Point of View
short story by Isaac Asimov
True Love
short story by Isaac Asimov
One for the Road
short story by Stephen King
Jokester
"Jokester" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the December 1956 issue of Infinity Science Fiction, and was reprinted in the collections Earth Is Room Enough (1957) and Robot Dreams (1986). It is one of a loosely connected series of stories concerning a fictional computer called Multivac.
What the Moon Brings
1923 prose poem by H. P. Lovecraft
The Descendant
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
After Twenty Years
short story by O. Henry
The Book
H. P. Lovecraft short story
The Reign of the Superman
1933 Jerry Siegel short story
Segregationist
short story by Isaac Asimov
The Machine that Won the War
1961 short story by Isaac Asimov
The Last Answer
1980 short story by Isaac Asimov
Franchise
science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov
Ibid
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
Azathoth
short story by H.P. Lovecraft
The Jaunt
1981 short story by Stephen King
The Vane Sisters
short story by Vladimir Nabokov
Shambleau
"Shambleau" is a short story by American science fiction and fantasy writer C. L. Moore. Though it was her first professional sale, it is her most famous story. It first appeared in the November 1933 issue of Weird Tales and has been reprinted numerous times. It features one of Moore's best-known heroes, Northwest Smith, a gun-toting spacefarer, and is a retelling of the Medusa myth; it looks at themes of sexuality and addiction.