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. 1839.
- “The Masque of the Red Death”. Edgar Allan Poe. 1842.
- “The White Ship”. H. P. Lovecraft. 1919.
- “An Imperial Message”. Franz Kafka. 1919. ⚡
- “The Cats of Ulthar”. H. P. Lovecraft. 1920. ⚡
- “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”. Jorge Luis Borges. 1940.
- “Dogfight on 101” (aka “Along the Scenic Route”). Harlan Ellison. 1969.
- “The Gospel According to Mark” (audio). Jorge Luis Borges. 1970.
- “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.
- “The Northern Caves”. nostalgebraist. 2015.
- “FAQ on LoadBear’s Instrument of Precommitment”. DataPacRat. 2015.
- “The Dime Spared”. R. Scott Bakker. 2016.
- “The Gig Economy”. Zero HP Lovecraft. 2018.
- “FLUORESCENT GRAVEYARDS”. Nanda. 2018.
- “top bunk”. ctrlcreep. 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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