Filter by genre, author and length or search directly by title. Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft and many more.
Find your favourite author. Read for free, online from Anton Chekhov, Charles Dickens, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and many more.
This is an online library of Edgar Allen Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, Raymond Bradbury and other classic short story authors. Cookie-free, login-free, and with only tiny affiliate links at the bottom of pages to keep it running.
That's where I got half the stories :)
I wanted to create something to scroll through on the train that was a bit more wholesome than social media, so I created an online library with all of the classic short stories for quick reading. Hoping other people find it useful too.
Big thanks to Project Gutenberg and The Library of Short Stories for most of these links.
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Literary
#1 The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
#2 The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#3 Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemmingway
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov
To Build a Fire by Jack London
Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
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Sci Fi
#1 The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
#2 A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
#3 Harrison Bergeren by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Nothing Equation by Tom Godwin
The Coming of the Ice by G. Peyton Wertenbaker
No Moving Parts by Murray F. Yaco
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Gothic/Horror
#1 A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
#2 The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft
#3 The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs