Reading Short Stories for Free Online
(a constantly updated list)
“A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J. D. Salinger
“Children of the Corn” by Stephen King
“Herbert West: Reanimator” by H. P. Lovecraft
“How to Get Back to the Forest” by Sofia Samatar
“Premium Harmony” by Stephen King
“Signs and Symbols” by Vladimir Nabokov
“The Body Snatcher” by Robert Louis Stevenson
“The Boogeyman” by Stephen King
“The Call of Cthulhu” by H. P. Lovecraft
“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Cathedral” by Raymond Carver
“The Door in the Wall” by H. G. Wells
“The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield
“The Human Chair” by Edogawa Ranpo
“The Haunter of the Dark” by H. P. Lovecraft
“The Landlady” by Roald Dahl
“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
“The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka
“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell
“The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant
“The New Dress” by Virginia Woolf
“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury
“The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson
“The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst
“The Summer People” by Shirley Jackson
“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
