English 274 Introduction to Short
Fiction
See Also Class Syllabus
TEXT RESOURCES
Ann Charters, The Story and Its Writer, An
Introduction to Short Fiction, Seventh Edition
BASIC TOOLS
Elements of the Short Story
NovelGuide - Novel Resource Guide and Literary Analysis
An On-Line Anthology
James Joyce: Araby
The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James
Bold Type: Short Story by Tracy Glisson
Bold Type: Short Story by Brian Murray
Bold Type: Short Story by Pam Ullman
"The Blue Hotel" Stephen Crane
"Cathedral" by Raymond Carver
The Circular Ruins Jorge Luis Borges
The Darling by Anton Chekhov
The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe
The Fly by Katherine Mansfield
He by Katherine Anne Porter
David Foster Wallace Short Story - Incarnations of Burned Children Esquire
A Jury of Her Peers -- by Susan Glaspell
The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov
Monster By Cecilia Pinto
The Minister's Black Veil, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1836
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
The Revolt of "Mother" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Rose by John Bigunet
The Secret Sharer Joseph Conrad
A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert
SayYes by Tobias Wolfe
SIN: EARLY IMPRESSIONS John Updike
The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Youth on Mars Lee K Abbott
Young Goodman Brown--Nathaniel Hawthorne
Anthologies and Collections
Aesop's Fables - Online Collection - 656+ fables –
AFRO-AMERICAN ALMANAC - African-American History Resource
The AFU & Urban Legends Archive
American Folklore: Famous American folktales and legends, Native
American myths, weather folklore, ghost stories and more from each of the 50
States.
Classic Fairy Tales (Main Page)
Classic Short Stories
Bulfinch's Mythology - Home Page and Table of Contents
Fairy Tales for the Erudite
Fairy Tales for Adults
Folktale Links
Fractured Fairy Tales
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts, page 1
Folklore and Mythology
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales and Stories
Native American Traditional Storytelling
Matthews, Brander. 1907. The Short-Story (Classic pre-1900)
NEWSEUM: WAR STORIES
The Online Books Page
TWENTY GREAT AMERICAN SHORT STORIES
Zensufi Story Park
Specimens of Bushmen Folklore Index
Geek & Roman Mythology
Korean Folk Tales
Wildlife Africa- African Tales
Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria Index
Native American Traditional Storytelling
Norse Mythology
Urban Legends
Grim’s Fairy Tales
Fairy tales India.
Fairy tales Africa, Southern.
Frog Kings: Folktales about Slimy Suitors
Folktales from China
Abducted by Aliens
Animal Brides
Faust Legends
RealPrincess.com - Animated Flash Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
NPR : StoryCorps: Recording America
Stories of September 11
Stories, Listed by Author
History and Criticism
Fables: Folklore and Speculative Fiction, Meredith Miller Memorial Internet
Project
Fairy Tale Quiz
Folk and Fairy Tales: Web Site Links
Folklore, Fairy Tales & Mythology / SAC Library & Media Services
Gareth Long's Encyclopedia of Monsters, Mythical Creatures and Fabulous
Beasts
Tatar, M.: The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales.
Sexuality in the Little Red Riding Hood of Tex Avery
Fables and Trickster Tales Around the World, EDSITEment
Fantastic Fiction
Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Utopia, Laura Quilter
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts, D.L. Ashliman, University of
Pittsburgh
Myths and Folktales, Fables, Fairy Tales, dmoz: Open Directory Project
Myths and Legends, Christopher Siren
SurLaLune: Fairy Tale Pages, Heidi Anne Heiner
longlongtimeago: stories for children, Rohini Chowdhury
The Novel in Stories”
The American Short Story: A Selective Chronology
The Short Story; a Slice of Life
Short Story
collectedstories: links
A Short History of the Short Story
Short Stories Reflections of Two Worlds
The Short Story: Read to Write: Beginning the Dissection [English Online]
Using Short Story Collections in the Classroom
Hyperizons: Hypertext Fiction
The Modern Woman in Joyce Carol Oates' The Lady with the Pet Dog Associated Content
Analyzing Grown-up Teenagers in the Work of Joyce Carol Oates - Associated
Content
Magazines’
Carve
Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life
Lamhfada: An Online Magazine of Myth and Story; featuring articles,
reviews, art, tales, books, and more about mythology, folklore, legends, gods,
and myth
Narrative Magazine
The New Yorker
Vestal Review
OTHER
YouTube - Joyce Carol Oates - On Writing Characters
YouTube - Tobias Wolff - "The Benefit of the Doubt"
YouTube - Under The Radar By Richard Ford