short story

A short story is a brief, self-contained work of fiction that focuses on a limited cast of characters and a concise plot to evoke a specific mood, theme, or insight.

Aliases (9)

• short story collection ×48
• novella ×29
• comic fiction ×1
• frame tale episode ×1
• humorous tale ×1
• pulp magazine story ×1
• science fiction short story ×1
• short fiction ×1
• short prose work ×1

Instances (138)

• Van Brunt
• The Spectre Bridegroom
• The Inn Kitchen
• The Italian Banditti
• The Christmas Dinner
• The Wife
• The Alhambra ("short story collection")
• The Angler
• The Pride of the Village
• The Widow and Her Son
• The Country Church ("short prose work")
• The Curse of Capistrano ("pulp magazine story")
• The Arabian Nights ("short story collection")
• The Devil and Tom Walker
• Bracebridge Hall ("short story collection")
• The Time Machine ("novella")
• No One Writes to the Colonel ("novella")
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich ("novella")
• The Kreutzer Sonata ("novella")
• Hadji Murad ("novella")
• The Penelopiad ("novella")
• Leaf Storm ("novella")
• Strange Pilgrims ("short story collection")
• The Wisdom of Eve
• The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. ("short story collection")
• Tales of a Traveller ("short story collection")
• Uncle Fred stories ("short story collection")
• Carry On, Jeeves ("short story collection")
• Difficult Women ("short story collection")
• Candide ("novella")
• Micromégas ("novella")
• La Princesse de Babylone ("novella")
• Zadig ("novella")
• Night Shift ("short story collection")
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• The Purloined Letter
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• The Black Cat
• A Christmas Memory
• The Grass Harp ("novella")
• Music for Chameleons ("short story collection")
• I, Robot ("short story collection")
• The Bicentennial Man ("short fiction")
• The Cask of Amontillado
• Breakfast at Tiffany's ("novella")
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue
• The Gold-Bug
• The Rest of the Robots ("short story collection")
• Nightfall ("science fiction short story")
• Kabuliwala
• Twice-Told Tales ("short story collection")
• Mosses from an Old Manse ("short story collection")
• Death in Venice ("novella")
• The Minister’s Black Veil
• Young Goodman Brown
• Chelkash
• The Turn of the Screw ("novella")
• Tonio Kröger ("novella")
• Nelson Mandela: Favorite African Folktales ("short story collection")
• Daisy Miller ("novella")
• The Aspern Papers ("novella")
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• Queer Little People ("short story collection")
• Betty's Bright Idea
• Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories ("short story collection")
• In Our Time ("short story collection")
• The Ghost in the Mill
• Men Without Women ("short story collection")
• Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte ("novella")
• The Right to Read
• La Comédie humaine ("short story collection")
• Le Colonel Chabert ("novella")
• La Comédie humaine portrays French society after the fall of Napoleon ("short story collection")
• Scenes of Clerical Life ("short story collection")
• A Good Man Is Hard to Find
• Slow Learner ("short story collection")
• Interpreter of Maladies ("short story collection")
• The Adventure of the German Student
• Shopgirl ("novella")
• Cinderella by Charles Perrault
• Scènes de la vie militaire ("short story collection")
• David Foster Wallace ("short story collection")
• Unaccustomed Earth ("short story collection")
• The Elephant’s Child by Rudyard Kipling
• The Story of an Hour
• At the ’Cadian Ball
• The Storm
• Bayou Folk ("short story collection")
• A Night in Acadie ("short story collection")
• 1897 – A Night in Acadie ("short story collection")
• Simple Speaks His Mind ("short story collection")
• The Mare (Dos kleyne mentshele) ("novella")
• The Taxman
• Désirée’s Baby
• Going to Meet the Man ("short story collection")
• Irving
• When the Nines Roll Over ("short story collection")
• The Seven Good Years ("short story collection")
• Stories and Pictures ("short story collection")
• If Not Higher
• The Old Man and the Sea ("novella")
• The Railroad Stories ("short story collection")
• Oğuz Atay ("short story collection")
• Everything That Rises Must Converge ("short story collection")
• All the Sad Young Men ("short story collection")
• Hospital Sketches ("short story collection")
• Behind a Mask ("novella")
• The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad
• The Honorable Gentleman
• Richard Yates ("short story collection")
• The Three Apples
• The Reluctant Dragon
• Flappers and Philosophers ("short story collection")
• Gimpel the Fool
• Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists ("short story collection")
• Of Mice and Men ("novella")
• The Pearl ("novella")
• Charade
• My Name Is Aram ("short story collection")
• Rip Van Winkle
• Alexander Grin ("novella")
• The Metamorphosis ("novella")
• In the Penal Colony
• A Hunger Artist
• Description of a Struggle
• Big Mama’s Funeral
• The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother ("novella")
• The Judgment