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Old 03-18-2012, 09:20 AM   #1
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Does anyone have any suggestions for out-of-copyright short story collections?

I've been reading old classics as backup backup books on my iPod, when I have no other reading matter to hand, but that's so rare that I think I ought to try short stories instead. I'd like them to be collections so I can count them as a book when I'm done (for reading challenge purposes).

The sorts of things I'd be looking for would be:

The Sherlock Holmes collections - I've already read several of these, but have no idea where I got to in the canon.
Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination - I might give this one a go. I think I've read a lot of the stories separately over the years.
Conan - Again, I'm not really sure what I've read of Howard's Conan stories.
Cthulhu - I don't know if there is a canonical set of collections for Lovecraft? I have the complete works, but that might be too much.
M.R. James - I'm not sure I want to be creeped out in the situations when I'll be reading from the iPod (doctors' waiting rooms, etc.)
Lord Dunsany - Available on Gutenberg, but not actually out-of-copyright in the UK. If I do read them, I'll probably want to keep it quiet, which doesn't work for my reading challenge.

Any other suggestions?
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Old 03-18-2012, 10:41 AM   #2
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Saki, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and O. Henry all have short story collections available here at mobileread.

Also Guy de Maupassant.
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Old 03-18-2012, 10:57 AM   #3
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You need to check out our library here, full of wonderful authors in the public domain.

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Old 03-18-2012, 11:30 AM   #4
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This site links to several others showcasing public domain short stories, fun for a browse:

http://www.classicshorts.com/links.html
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Old 03-18-2012, 12:06 PM   #5
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Old 03-18-2012, 03:22 PM   #6
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I always have some Damon Runyon stories handy - a good light read for when I don't feel in the mood for anything else.

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Old 03-18-2012, 03:27 PM   #7
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Pick up the Chekhov collection in MrTeatime's sig. It's not for nothing that Chekhov is acknowledged as the master of the short story.
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Old 03-18-2012, 06:29 PM   #8
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201 is probably too many. But there's no reason not to get it.

Thanks for the suggestions.
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Old 03-18-2012, 07:30 PM   #9
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I always have some Damon Runyon stories handy - a good light read for when I don't feel in the mood for anything else.

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There's a MR collection of Damon Runyon here on MobileRead, I wrote a glossary and introduction for it (which I deliberately and explicitly place in the Public Domain). But Runyon is not life + 70 P. D. yet (died 1946)
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Searching for anthology in MR ebooks gives a few pages of choices

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There's a Kindle collection of Robert E. Howard tales available!
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Edgar Rice Burrough's stories (Tarzan, John Carter, etc.).
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Old 04-26-2012, 10:33 AM   #13
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You can also try Project Gutenburg.
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This is free (but only with another purchase), but Delphi Classics has a collection called Masters of the Short Story.

Includes 22 short stories from authors such as Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Thackeray, Wilde, Dickens, Chekhov, Conrad, Kafka etc...

Anyway - in case it helps: http://delphiclassics.com/shop/
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If you like Robert E. Howard, you should know that he has several other cycles of short stories in the Public Domain as well.

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