| title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
| The Shape of Fear | Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935 | en | | The shape of fear -- On the northern ice -- Their dear little ghost -- A spectral collie -- The house that was not -- Story of an obstinate corpse -- A child of the rain -- The room of evil thought -- Story of the vanishing patient -- The piano next door -- An astral onion -- From the loom of the dead -- A grammatical ghost | | Fiction; Short stories; Detective and mystery stories | 1999-09-01 |
| Odd Numbers
Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe | Ford, Sewell, 1868-1946 | en | | Goliah and the purple lid -- How Maizie came through -- Where Spotty fitted in -- A grandmother who got going -- A long shot on DeLancey -- Playing Harold both ways -- Cornelia shows some class -- Doping out an odd one -- Handing Bobby a blank -- Marmaduke slips one over -- A look in on the goat game -- Mrs. Truckles' broad jump -- Heiney takes the gloom cure -- A try-out for Toodleism -- The case of the Tiscotts -- Classing Tutwater right -- How Hermy put it over -- Joy riding with aunty -- Turning a trick for Beany. | | New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction; Humorous stories, American | 2008-09-04 |
| My Contemporaries In Fiction | Murray, David Christie, 1847-1907 | en | | First, the critics, and then a word on Dickens -- Charles Reade -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Living masters, Meredith and Hall Caine -- Living masters, Rudyard Kipling -- Under French encouragement,Thomas Hardy -- Under French encouragement, George Moore -- Mr. S.R. Crockett, Ian Maclaren -- Dr. Macdonald and Mr. J.M. Barrie -- The problem seekers, sea captain and land captain -- Miss Marie Corelli -- The Americans -- The young romancers. | | | 2007-08-01 |
| The Lock and Key Library
Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English | | en | | Rudyard Kipling
My Own True Ghost Story
The Sending of Dana Da
In the House of Suddhoo
His Wedded Wife
A. Conan Doyle
A Case of Identity
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Red-Headed League
Egerton Castle
The Baron's Quarry
Stanley J. Weyman
The Fowl in the Pot
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Pavilion on the Links
Wilkie Collins
The Dream Woman
Anonymous
The Lost Duchess
The Minor Canon
The Pipe
The Puzzle
The Great Valdez Sapphire | | Short stories; Fiction; Detective and mystery stories, English | 2005-06-04 |
| The Last Galley
Impressions and Tales | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 | en | | The last galley -- The contest -- Through the veil -- An iconoclast -- Giant Maximin -- The coming of the Huns -- The last of the legions -- The first cargo -- The home-coming -- The red star -- The silver mirror -- The blighting of Sharkey -- The marriage of the brigadier -- The Lord of Falconbridge -- Out of the running -- "De profundis" -- The great Brown-Pericord motor -- The terror of Blue John Gap. | | Historical fiction, English; Short stories, English | 2005-08-01 |
| Blazed Trail Stories
and Stories of the Wild Life | White, Stewart Edward, 1873-1946 | en | | Blazed trail stories: The riverman. The foreman. The scaler. The river-boss. The fifth way. The life of the winds of heaven.--Stories of the wild life: The girl who got rattled. Billy’s tenderfoot. The two cartridges. The race. The saving grace. The prospector. The girl in red. | | Western stories; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction | 2007-08-04 |
| Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green | Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka), 1859-1927 | en | | Reginald Blake, financier and cad -- An item of fashionable intelligence -- Blasé Billy -- The choice of Cyril Harjohn -- The materialisation of Charles and Mivanway -- Portrait of a lady -- The man who would manage -- The man who lived for others -- A man of habit -- The absent-minded man -- A charming woman -- Whibley's spirit -- The man who went wrong -- The hobby rider -- The man who did not believe in luck -- Dick Dunkerman's cat -- The minor poet's story -- The degeneration of Thomas Henry -- The city of the sea -- Driftwood. | | Short stories, English; Manners and customs -- Fiction | 2000-06-01 |
| As We Were Saying | Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 | en | | Rose and chrysanthemum -- The red bonnet -- The loss in civilization -- Social screaming -- Does refinement kill individuality? -- The directoire gown -- The mystery of the sex -- The clothes of fiction -- The broad A -- Chewing gum -- Women in congress -- Shall women propose? -- Frocks and the stage -- Altruism -- Social clearing-house -- Dinner-table talk -- Naturalization -- Art of governing -- Love of display -- Value of the commonplace -- The burden of Christmas -- The responsibility of writers -- The cap and gown -- A tendency of the age -- A locoed novelist. | | | 2004-12-05 |
| Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches | Baring, Maurice, 1874-1945 | en | | Orpheus in Mayfair -- The Cricket Match -- The Shadow of a Midnight -- Jean Francois -- The Flute of Chang Liang -- "What is Truth?" -- A Luncheon-Party -- Fete Galante -- The Garland -- The Spider's Web -- Edward II. At Berkeley Castle -- The Island -- The Man Who Gave Good Advice -- Russalka -- The Old Woman -- Dr. Faust's Last Day -- The Flute-Player's Story -- A Chinaman on Oxford -- Venus -- The Fire -- The Conqueror -- The Ikon -- The Thief -- The Star -- Chun Wa. | | Short stories; Fiction | 2006-04-04 |
| Flower Fables | Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 | en | | The frost king, or, The power of love -- Eva's visit to fairy-land -- The flower's lesson -- Lily-Bell and Thistledown -- Little Bud -- Clover-Blossom -- Little Annie's dream, or, The fairy flower -- Ripple, the water-spirit -- Fairy song. | | Fairy tales -- United States; Children's stories, American; Short stories; Flowers -- Juvenile fiction; Flowers -- Juvenile poetry; Fairies -- Juvenile poetry | 1994-09-01 |
| Droll Stories — Volume 2 | Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 | en | Translation of: Les contes drôlatiques
See also: Vol 1: #1925, Vol 3: #2551, and the complete work #13260 | The Three Clerks of Saint Nicholas -- The Continence of King Francis The First -- The Merry Tattle of the Nuns of Poissy -- How the Chateau d'Azay Came To Be Built -- The False Courtesan -- The Danger of Being Too Innocent -- The Dear Night of Love -- The Sermon of the Merry Vicar of Meudon -- The Succubus -- Despair in Love | | Humorous stories; French literature -- 19th century; France -- Fiction; French literature | 2004-08-23 |
| Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective
Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express | Pinkerton, A. Frank [pseud.] | en | | Dyke Darrel the railroad detective -- Won by crime. | | Detective and mystery stories; Railroad stories; Crime -- Fiction | 2004-06-01 |
| Southern Stories
Retold from St. Nicholas | Various | en | | His Hero, by Minor -- Jericho Bob, by King -- How We Bought Louisiana, by Coffin -- The City that Lives Outdoors, by Harwood -- Queer American Rivers, by Spearman -- The Watermelon Stockings, by Hegan -- The "'Gator", by Moore -- The Earthquake at Charleston, by Gibson -- Hiding Places in War Times, by Gore -- St. Augustine, by Stockton -- Catching Terrapin, by Kappes -- "Locoed", by Marshall -- A Divided Duty, by Cassidy -- The "Walking-Beam Boy", by Stofiel -- The Creature with No Claws, by Harris. | | Southern States -- Juvenile fiction; Southern States -- Juvenile literature | 2007-12-06 |
| Complete Essays | Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 | en | | As we were saying -- As we go -- Nine short essays -- Fashions in literature -- The American newspaper -- Certain diversities of American life -- The pilgrim, and the American of today [1892] -- Some causes of the prevailing disconcent -- The education of the negro -- The indeterminate sentence -- Literary copyright -- The relation of literature to life -- "Equality" -- What is your culture to me? -- Modern fiction -- Thoughts suggested by Mr.Froude's "Progress" -- England -- The novel and the common school -- The people for whom Shakespeare wrote. | | | 2004-10-11 |
| The Hungry Stones and Other Stories | Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941 | en | | The hungry stones -- The victory -- Once there was a king -- The home-coming -- My lord, the baby -- The kingdom of cards -- The devotee -- Vision -- The babus of Nayanjore -- Living or dead? -- "We crown the king." -- The renunciation -- The Cabuliwallah [The Fruitseller from Cabul] | | India -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Short stories, Bengali -- Translations into English; Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941 -- Translations into English | 2001-02-01 |
| Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby | Norris, Kathleen Thompson, 1880-1966 | en | | Poor, dear Margaret Kirby -- Bridging the years -- The tide-marsh -- What happened to Alanna -- The friendship of Alanna -- "S is for shiftless Susanna" -- The last Carolan -- Making allowances for mamma -- The measure of Margaret Coppered -- Miss Mix, kidnapper -- Shandon Waters -- Gayley the troubadour -- Dr. Bates and Miss Sally -- The gay deceiver -- The rainbow's end -- Rosemary's stepmother -- Austin's girl -- Rising water. | | American fiction -- 20th century; Short stories | 2003-08-01 |
| Essays and Tales | Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719 | en | | Public credit -- Household Superstitions -- Opera Lions -- Women and Wives -- The Italian Opera -- Lampoons -- True and False Humour -- Sa Ga Yan Qua Rash Tow's Impressions of London -- The Vision of Marraton -- Six Papers on Wit -- Friendship -- Chevy-Chase (Two Papers) -- A Dream of the Painters -- Spare Time (Two Papers) -- Censure -- The English Language -- The Vision of Mirza -- Genius -- Theodosius and Constantia -- Good Nature -- A Grinning Match -- Trust in God. | Morley, Henry, 1822-1894 [Editor] | Fiction; Essays; Short stories | 2001-09-01 |
| The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2 | Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893 | en | | Monsieur Parent -- The Father -- A Vagabond -- Useless Beauty -- Fly -- The Mad Woman -- That Pig of a Morin -- The Wooden Shoes -- A Normandy Joke -- A Cock Crowed -- Julot's Opinion -- Mademoiselle -- The Mountebanks -- The Sequel to a Divorce -- The Man with the Dogs -- The Clown -- Babette -- Sympathy -- The Debt -- An Artist -- Mademoiselle Fifi -- The Story of a Farm Girl -- Mamma Stirling -- Lilie Lala -- Madame Tellier's Establishment -- The Bandmaster's Sister -- False Alarm -- Wife and Mistress -- Mad -- An Unfortunate Likeness -- The New Sensation. | | French fiction -- Translations into English; Short stories, French -- Translations into English | 2005-12-22 |
| Shorty McCabe on the Job | Ford, Sewell, 1868-1946 | en | | Wishing a new one on Shorty -- A few squirms by Bayard -- Peeking in on Pedders -- Two singles to Goober -- The case of a female party -- How Millie shook the jinx -- Reverse English on Sonny Boy -- Gumming Gopher to the map -- What Lindy had up her sleeve -- A case of nobody home -- Under the wire with Edwin -- A fifty-fifty split with Hunk -- A follow through by Eggy -- Catching up with Gerald -- Shorty hears from Pemaquid -- Scratch one on Bulgaroo -- Bayard ducks his past -- Trailing Dudley through a trance -- A little while with Alvin. | | New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction; Humorous stories; Short stories, American | 2007-04-07 |
| Harry's Ladder to Learning | Anonymous | en | | Part I. Harry's horn-book -- Part II. Harry's picture-book -- Part III. Harry's nursery songs -- Part IV. Harry's nursery tales -- Part V. Harry's simple stories -- Part VI. Harry's country walks. | | Picture books for children; Children's poetry; Children's stories; Country life -- Juvenile fiction; Nursery rhymes; Readers | 2008-02-19 |
| The Spinner's Book of Fiction | Various | en | | Concha Argüello, Sister Dominica, by Gertrude Atherton -- The Ford of Crèvecœur, by Mary Austin -- A Californian, by Geraldine Bonner -- Gideon's Knock, by Mary Halleck Foote -- A Yellow Man and a White, by Eleanor Gates -- The Judgment of Man, by James Hopper -- The League of the Old Men, by Jack London -- Down the Flume with the Sneath Piano, by Bailey Millard -- The Contumacy of Sarah L. Walker, by Miriam Michelson -- Breaking Through, by W. C. Morrow -- A Lost Story, by Frank Norris -- Hantu, by Henry Milner Rideout -- Miss. Juno, by Charles Warren Stoddard -- A Little Savage Gentleman, by Isobel Strong -- Love and Advertising, by Richard Walton Tully -- The Tewana, by Herman Whitaker. | | | 2007-01-11 |
| Beasts and Super-Beasts | Saki, 1870-1916 | en | | The she-wolf -- Laura -- The boar-pig -- The Brogue -- The hen -- The open window -- The treasure-ship -- The cobweb -- The lull -- The unkindest blow -- The romancers -- The Schartz-Metterklume method -- The seventh pullet -- The blind spot -- Dusk -- A touch of realism -- Cousin Teresa -- The Yarkand manner -- The Byzantine omelette -- The Feast of Nemesis -- The dreamer -- The quince tree -- The forbidden buzzards -- The stake -- Clovis on parental responsibilities -- A holiday task -- The stalled ox -- The story-teller -- A defensive diamond -- The elk -- Down pens -- The name-day -- The lumber room -- Fur -- The philanthropist and the happy cat -- On approval. | | Short stories, English; Supernatural -- Fiction; Humorous stories | 1995-05-01 |
| Side-stepping with Shorty | Ford, Sewell, 1868-1946 | en | | Shorty and the plute -- Rounding up Maggie -- Up against Bentley -- The Tortonis' star act -- Putting Pinckney on the job -- The soaring of the Sagawas -- Rinkey and the phony lamp -- Pinckney and the twins -- A line on Peacock Alley -- Shorty and the stray -- When Rossiter cut loose -- Two rounds with Sylvie -- Giving Bombazoula the hook -- A hunch for Langdon -- Shorty's go with art -- Why Wilbur ducked -- When Swifty was going some -- Playing Wilbur to show -- At home with the Dillons -- The case of Rusty Quinn. | Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux), 1874-1938 [Illustrator] | New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction; Short stories, American; Humorous stories, American | 2010-03-15 |
| The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 | Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893 | en | | The Old Maid -- The Awakening -- In the Spring -- The Jennet -- Rust -- The Substitute -- The Relic -- The Man with the Blue Eyes -- Allouma -- A Family Affair -- The Odalisque of Senichou -- A Good Match -- A Fashionable Woman -- The Carnival of Love -- A Deer Park in the Provinces -- The White Lady -- Caught -- Christmas Eve -- Words of Love -- A Divorce Case -- Who Knows? -- Simon's Papa -- Paul's Mistress -- The Rabbit -- The Twenty-Five Francs of the Mother Superior -- The Venus of Braniza -- La Morillonne -- Waiter, A "Bock" -- Regret -- The Port -- The Hermit -- The Orderly -- Duchoux -- Old Amable -- Magnetism. | | French fiction -- Translations into English; Short stories, French -- Translations into English | 2005-12-22 |
| The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million | Henry, O., 1862-1910 | en | | The trimmed lamp -- A Madison Square Arabian night -- The Rubaiyat of a Scotch highball -- The pendulum -- Two Thanksgiving day gentlemen -- The assessor of success -- The buyer from Cactus City -- The badge of policeman O'Roon -- Brickdust Row -- The making of a New Yorker -- Vanity and some sables -- The social triangle -- The purple dress -- The foreign policy of Company 99 -- The lost blend -- A Harlem tragedy -- "The guilty party"--An East side tragedy -- According to their lights -- A midsummer knight's dream -- The last leaf -- The count and the wedding guest -- The county of elusion -- The ferry of unfulfilment -- The tale of a tainted tenner -- Elsie in New York. | | Short stories; New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2003-02-01 |