Short Stories

Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe

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Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe was first published in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1835. The story is narrated by Egaeus, who is preparing to marry his cousin Berenice.

The House of Cobwebs by George Gissing

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The House of Cobwebs by George Gissing is one of fifteen stories that make up the collection “The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories”, published in 1906.

A Struggle With A Devil Fish by Victor Hugo

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A Struggle With A Devil Fish by Victor Hugo is taken from his 1866 novel The Toilers of the Sea. A tale of a shipwreck in the English Channel and an encounter with an octopus.

Verotchka by Anton Chekhov

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Originally published in 1887, Verotchka by Anton Chekhov tells the tale of Ognev, who reminisces about a day in his past when he let his love, Vera Gavrilovna, slip away.

The Celestial Omnibus by E. M. Forster

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The Celestial Omnibus by E. M. Forster is part of The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories, a collection of short stories first published in 1911. Together with the collection The Eternal Moment it forms part of Forster’s Collected Short Stories.

The Namesake by Willa Cather

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The Namesake by Willa Cather was first published in 1907 in McClure’s, an American illustrated monthly periodical popular at the turn of the 20th century.

The Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe

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The Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe was published anonymously in 1706 and is usually attributed to Daniel Defoe. It has been described as “the first modern ghost story”.

The Informer by Joseph Conrad

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The Informer by Joseph Conrad was originally published in Harper’s Magazine in 1906. It was later included in his collection A Set of Six in 1908.

The Sign of the Broken Sword by G. K. Chesterton

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The Sign of the Broken Sword by G. K. Chesterton was published in 1911 and was the sixth of his stories to feature Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective Father Brown.