Short Story Books

Proteus Island

Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

Proteus Island is a fantastic fiction work by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum which was published in the Astounding Stories, August 1936.He looked again at the land. Austin Island was not tradition..

Shock Absorber

E.G. von Wald

Shock Absorber is a short science fiction story written by E.G. von Wald which is dealing with war.He looked up again and quickly added, "Oh, of course there is a discipline of a sort, and in its own ..

The Fourth Invasion

Henry Josephs

The Fourth Invasion is a science fiction short story written by Henry Josephs.Psychopathology has offered possible answers to why, from time to time, people in large quantities "see" strange things in..

The Impregnable City

Max Pemberton

The Impregnable City is a science fiction short story written by Max Pemberton. ..

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Rudyard Kipling

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a short story in the 1894 anthology The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a valiant young indian mongoose. It has often been anthologized and has been publishe..

Arsene Lupin vs Herlock Sholmes

Maurice LeBlanc

Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes is the second collection of Arsène Lupin stories written by Maurice Leblanc, featuring two adventures following a match of wits between Lupin and Herlock Sholmes...

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

Various Authors

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories is a collection of short mystery stories by most popular authors.HENRI RENÉ ALBERT GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850-93).The NecklaceThe Man with the Pa..

The Best British Short Stories of 1922

Anonymous

When Edward J. O'Brien asked me to cooperate with him in choosing each year's best English short stories, to be published as a companion volume to his annual selection of the best American short stori..