Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf."Spring Pictures" is a series of...
New Dresses
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.'New Dresses' is the story of two...
The Cage
John Davys Beresford (1873-1947) was an English writer, now remembered for his early science fiction and short stories in the horror and ghost story genres. "The Cage" explores...
The Drug
Edward Alexander Crowley (1875-1947) was a British writer, poet, magician and follower of the occult who wrote under the name Aleister Crowley. His works scandalised Victorian...
In Yeddo Bay
John Griffith 'Jack' London (1876 - 1916) was a popular American novelist, journalist and social activist.'In Yeddo Bay' is the adventure of a young sailor who has lost his purse...
The Mistake of the Machine
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English writer best known for his fictional priest-detective, Father Brown. In 'The Mistake of the Machine', Father Brown pits himself...
Little Tobrah
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. "Little Tobrah" is a disturbing murder story set in India. The eight year old...
Aunts and Pianos
Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his masterly and uncanny ghost stories....
A Newspaper Story
O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), an American writer of outstanding short stories known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise...
Man Who Fell In Love With The Cooperative Stores, The
Stella Benson (1892-1933) was an English feminist, novelist, poet, and short story and travel writer. "The Man who fell in Love with the Cooperative Stores" is an amusing...
