L. M. Montgomery s Further Chronicles of Avonlea is a follow-up collection of short stories to her classic, Chronicles of Avonlea. Several stories about the people of the made-up Canadian town of Avon..
Many horror authors, including H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King, have cited M. R. James as an inspiration for their own work. They were first published in the early 1900s, but have remained in print b..
Washington Irving (1783-1859), often regarded as one of the first American writers to acquire international acclaim, is the author of the collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent...
Published for the first time in 1819–20 in Washington Irving's The Sketch Book is his short novel The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod Crane, the story's protagonist, is a Yankee teacher who makes his..
Both the 1925 Boni & Liveright, New York collection of Ernest Hemingway's short tales and the 1924 French collection of vignettes named in our time bear the title In Our Time. The phrase "Give peace i..
Short stories by Robert W. Chambers, originally published in The King in Yellow in 1895. Despite having elements of early horror fiction, Victorian Gothic, fantasy, mystery, war, romance, mythology, s..
Originally published in 1902 in The Lady of the Barge, W.W. Jacobs' The Monkey's Paw is a timeless masterpiece of horror and superstition. The plot revolves around a dried, shrunken monkey paw that, l..