Fiction links

Short stories, novellas, and similar things

This is a collection of links to fiction you can read on the World Wide Web. Flash (extremely short) fiction is marked with a “⚡”.

• “The Fall of the House of Usher”. Edgar Allan Poe. 1840.
• “The Masque of the Red Death”. Edgar Allan Poe. 1842.
• “An Imperial Message”. Franz Kafka. 1919. ⚡
• “The White Ship”. H. P. Lovecraft. 1919.
• “The Cats of Ulthar”. H. P. Lovecraft. 1920. ⚡
• “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”. Jorge Luis Borges. 1962.
• “Dogfight on 101” (aka “Along the Scenic Route”). Harlan Ellison. 1969.
• “The Gospel According to Mark” (audio). Jorge Luis Borges. 1971.
• “Why Johnny Can’t Speed”. Alan Dean Foster. 1971.
• “Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death”. James Tiptree, Jr. 1973.
• “The Last Answer”. Isaac Asimov. 1980.
• “BLIT”. David Langford. 1988.
• “They’re Made Out of Meat”. Terry Bisson. 1991.
• “A Colder War”. Charles Stross. 2000.
• “Postcard”. Kathy Kachelries. 2005. ⚡
• “The Long Chase”. Geoffrey A. Landis. 2010.
• “The Things”. Peter Watts. 2010.
• “The Ones Who Walk Towards Acre”. Gwern Branwen. 2010. ⚡
• “Clarity didn’t work, trying mysterianism” (the Whispering Earring story). Scott Alexander. 2012. ⚡
• “The Study of Anglophysics”. Scott Alexander. 2014.
• “FAQ on LoadBear’s Instrument of Precommitment”. DataPacRat. 2015.
• “The Northern Caves”. nostalgebraist. 2015.
• “The Dime Spared”. R. Scott Bakker. 2016.
• “The Gig Economy”. Zero HP Lovecraft. 2018.
• “top bunk”. ctrlcreep. 2018. ⚡
• “FLUORESCENT GRAVEYARDS”. Nanda. 2018.
• “A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog...” sadoeuphemist. 2020.
• “Lena”. qntm. 2021.
• “Basilisk collection”. Blackle Mori. 2021.

Collaborative fiction wikis

• The Holders (archived).
• Calgary’s Gideon Keys.

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