www.libraryofshortstories.com

This is an online library of Edgar Allen Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, Raymond Bradbury and other classic short story authors. Cookie-free, login-free, and with only tiny affiliate links at the bottom of pages to keep it running.

I wanted to create something to scroll through on the train that was a bit more wholesome than social media, so I created an [online library](https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/) with all of the classic short stories for quick reading. Hoping other people find it useful too.

Big thanks to Project Gutenberg and The Library of Short Stories for most of these links. ------ Literary #1 [The Lottery by Shirley Jackson](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery) #2 [The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman]( https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-yellow-wallpaper) #3 [Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5200/5200-h/5200-h.htm) [Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemmingway]( https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/hills-like-white-elephants) [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce]( https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/an-occurrence-at-owl-creek-bridge) [The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov]( https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-lady-with-the-dog) [To Build a Fire by Jack London](https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/to-build-a-fire) [Desiree’s Baby by Kate Chopin](https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/desirees-baby) [Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1429/pg1429-images.html) [Araby by James Joyce](https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/araby) [The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry](https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-gift-of-the-magi) [Counterparts by James Joyce]( https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/counterparts) [The Last Leaf by O. Henry](https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-last-leaf) [The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant](https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-necklace) [The Dead by James Joyce](https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-dead) [The Nose by Nikolai Gogol](https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-nose) ------ Sci Fi #1 [The Last Question by Isaac Asimov](https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html) #2 [A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury](https://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/ASoundofThunder.pdf) #3 [Harrison Bergeren by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.](https://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html) [2br02b by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.](https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/2br02b) [The Nothing Equation by Tom Godwin]( https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-nothing-equation) [The Coming of the Ice by G. Peyton Wertenbaker](https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-coming-of-the-ice) [No Moving Parts by Murray F. Yaco](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25078/25078-h/25078-h.htm) ------ Gothic/Horror #1 [A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor](https://repositorio.ufsc.br/bitstream/handle/123456789/160332/A%20good%20man%20is%20hard%20to%20find%20-%20Flannery%20O%27Connor.pdf) #2 [The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft](https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-call-of-cthulhu) #3 [The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe](https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-tell-tale-heart) [The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe](https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-cask-of-amontillado) [The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe](https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-masque-of-the-red-death) [The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs](https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-monkeys-paw) [The White People by Arthur Machen](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25016/pg25016-images.html) [Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl](https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/lamb-to-the-slaughter)