Category: Classic Short Story

The Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Posted on November 28, 2023November 28, 2023 by Every Writer

“Phil, I’m getting fearfully hungry. When are we going to strike civilization?”

Christmas Every Day by W. D. Howells

Posted on November 27, 2023 by Every Writer

Christmas Every Day by W. D. Howells The little girl came into her papa’s study, as she always did Saturday

Two Gallants by James Joyce

Posted on November 14, 2023 by Every Writer

The grey warm evening of August had descended upon the city and a mild warm air, a memory of summer, circulated in the streets.

The Skylight Room by O.Henry

Posted on November 11, 2023November 11, 2023 by Every Writer

The Skylight Room by O.Henry First Mrs. Parker would show you the double parlours. You would not dare to interrupt

From the Cabby’s Seat by O.Henry

Posted on November 7, 2023December 7, 2023 by Every Writer

The cabby has his point of view. It is more single-minded, perhaps, than that of a follower of any other calling. From the high, swaying seat of his hansom

The Mummy’s Foot Théophile Gautier

Posted on October 31, 2023 by Every Writer

I had entered, in an idle mood, the shop of one of those curiosity venders who are called marchands de bric-à-brac in that Parisian

The Pumpkin Giant by Mary Wilkins Freeman

Posted on October 28, 2023 by Every Writer

A very long time ago, before our grandmother’s time, or our great-grandmother’s, or our grandmothers’ with a very long string of greats prefixed

A Vampire by G. J. Whyte-Melville

Posted on October 25, 2023 by Every Writer

Recurring encounters over many years with the mysterious and alluring Madame de St. Croix, who seems to maintain eternal youth and beauty while spellbinding a succession of men, is she a vampire?

The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling

Posted on October 23, 2023May 28, 2024 by Every Writer

“The Mark of the Beast” helped popularize and cement the werewolf as a staple figure in horror fiction. But many examples of werewolf literature existed for centuries prior to when Kipling published his story in 1890.

Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker

Posted on October 23, 2023June 1, 2024 by Every Writer

When we started for our drive the sun was shining brightly on Munich, and the air was full of the

Girl with Pearls in Her Eyes by Fanni Sütő

Posted on May 15, 2019December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

here are ghosts on the Underground.You don’t notice them because they look just like you, or a ticket inspector. They clutch their lost life as

Araby by James Joyce

Posted on April 29, 2019May 1, 2019 by Every Writer

NORTH RICHMOND STREET being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers’ School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square groun