The above illustration, "Blowing Bubbles," has been adapted for use here by generous permission from the artist, Cyril Rolando.

2014 Short Story Reading

Short story reading this year:
(Favorites are in bold.)

From THE GREAT ENGLISH SHORT-STORY WRITERS, VOL. I, from the Project Gutenberg ebook:
     THE APPARITION OF MRS. VEAL by Daniel Defoe
     THE MYSTERIOUS BRIDE by James Hogg
     THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER by Washington Irving
     DR. HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT by Nathaniel Hawthorne
     THE BOOTS AT THE HOLLY-TREE INN by Charles Dickens
     A DOG'S TALE by Mark Twain

From THE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK OF LOCKED ROOM MYSTERIES, edited by Otto Penzler:
    THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE by Edgar Allan Poe
    THE PROBLEM OF CELL 13 by Jacques Futrelle
    TWO BOTTLES OF RELISH by Lord Dunsany
    THE INVISIBLE MAN by G.K. Chesterton
    THE DOOMDORF MYSTERY by Melville Davisson Post
    THE WRONG PROBLEM by John Dickson Carr
    THE THING INVISIBLE by William Hope Hodgson
    DEPARTMENT OF IMPOSSIBLE CRIMES by James Yaffe
    THE ALUMINUM DAGGER by R. Austin Freeman
    THE CREWEL NEEDLE by Gerald Kersh
    THE DOCTOR'S CASE by Stephen King