Barrington Area Library

Teens' Catalog | Short Story Collections

Classics | Contemporary | Fantasy | Mystery | Scary | Science Fiction | Sports

Classics

Bradbury, Ray.  The Martian Chronicles.
Doyle, Arthur Conan.  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.  The Great Stone Face, and Two Other Stories.
Henry, O.  41 Stories.
Irving, Washington.  Rip Van Winkle, and Other Stories.
Kennedy, Richard.  Richard Kennedy: Collected Stories.
Lardner, Ring.  Haircut, and Other Stories.
Lester, Julius.  Long Journey Home: Stories from Black History.
London, Jack.  To Build a Fire, and Other Stories.
Maupassant, Guy de.  The Diamond Necklace, and Four Other Stories.
Poe, Edgar Allan.  Tales of Terror.
Poe, Edgar Allan.  Weird Tales of Edgar Allan Poe.
Twain, Mark.  The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories.
Wilde, Oscar.  The Canterville Ghost, and Other Stories.

Contemporary

Anaya, Rudolfo A.  My Land Sings: Stories from the Rio Grande.
Appelt, Kathi.  Kissing Tennessee, and Other Stories from the Stardust Dance.
Armstrong, Jennifer, ed.  Shattered: Stories of Children and War.
Bolden, Tonya, ed.  Rites of Passage: Stories about Growing up by Black Writers from around the World.
Carlson, Lori M., ed.  American Eyes: New Asian-American Short Stories for Young Adults.
Conford, Ellen.  Crush.
Dahl, Roald.  Skin, and Other Stories.
Deak, Erzsi.  Period Pieces: Stories for Girls.
Duncan, Lois.  Trapped! Cages of Mind and Body.
Fraustino, Lisa Rowe, ed. Soul Searching: Thirteen Stories about Faith and Belief.
Gallo, Donald R., ed.  On the Fringe.
Gifaldi, David.  Rearranging, and Other Stories.
Howe, James.  The Color of Absence: 12 Stories about Loss and Hope.
Hunt, Scott W.  Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Art.
Konigsburg, E. L.  Throwing Shadows.
Miller-Lachmann, Lyn, ed.  Once upon a Cuento.
Myers, Walter Dean.  145th Street: Short Stories.
Naidoo, Beverley.  Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope.
Paterson, Katherine.  A Midnight Clear: Stories for the Christmas Season.
Paulsen, Gary, ed.  Shelf Life: Stories by the Book.
Pearson, Gayle.  One Potato, Tu: Seven Stories.
Peck, Richard.  Past, Perfect, Present: New and Collected Stories.
Rochman, Hazel, ed.  Leaving Home: Stories.
Rochman, Hazel, ed.  Who Do You Think You Are? Stories of Friends and Enemies.
Salisbury, Graham.  Island Boyz: Short Stories.
Silvey, Anita.  Help Wanted: Short Stories about Young People Working.
Singer, Marilyn, ed.  Face Relations: Eleven Stories about Seeing Beyond Color.
Singer, Marilyn, ed.  Stay True: Short Stories for Strong Girls.
Spinelli, Jerry.  The Library Card.
Soto, Gary.  Baseball in April, and Other Stories.
Soto, Gary.  Help Wanted: Stories.
Soto, Gary.  Local News.
Weiss, M. Jerry, ed.  Big City Cool: Short Stories about Urban Youth.
Wilson, Budge.  The Leaving, and Other Stories.
Wynne-Jones, Tim.  The Book of Changes.
Wynne-Jones, Tim.  Lord of the Fries, and Other Stories.
Wynne-Jones, Tim.  Some of the Kinder Planets: Stories.

Fantasy

Brooke, William J.  Teller of Tales.
Coville, Bruce, ed.  Half Human.
Dickinson, Peter.  The Lion Tamer's Daughter, and Other Stories.
Ellis, Sarah.  Back of Beyond: Stories of the Supernatural.
Jacques, Brian.  The Ribbajack, and Other Curious Yarns.
Jennings, Paul.  Uncovered! Weird, Weird Stories.
Jennings, Paul.  Undone! More Mad Endings.
Jones, Diana Wynne.  Believing Is Seeing: Seven Stories.
Jones, DIana Wynne.  Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories.
Mayne, William.  Supernatural Stories.
McKinley, Robin.  A Knot in the Grain, and Other Stories.
McKinley, Robin.  Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits.
Porte, Barbara Ann.  Beauty and the Serpent: Thirteen Tales of Unnatural Animals.
Porte, Barbara Ann.  Jesse's Ghost, and Other Stories.
Vande Velde, Vivian.  Curses, Inc., and Other Stories.
Vande Velde, Vivian.  Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird.
Wrede, Patricia C.  Book of Enchantments.
Yolen, Jane.  Here There Be Dragons.
Yolen, Jane, ed.  Sherwood: Original Stories from the World of Robin Hood.
Yolen, Jane.  Twelve Impossible Things before Breakfast: Stories.

Mystery

Cresswell, Helen.  Mystery Stories.
Doyle, Arthur Conan.  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Pullman, Philip, ed.  Detective Stories.

Scary

Aiken, Joan.  A Fit of Shivers: Tales for Late at Night.
Coville, Bruce.  Oddly Enough: Stories by Bruce Coville.
Duncan, Lois, ed.  Night Terrors: Stories of Shadow and Substance.
Etchemendy, Nancy.  Cat in Glass, and Other Tales of the Unnatural.
Gorog, Judith.  Please Do Not Touch: A Collection of Stories.
Hill, Susan, ed.  The Random House Book of Ghost Stories.
Hoke, Helen, ed.  Terrors, Terrors, Terrors.
Jacques, Brian.  Seven Strange & Ghostly Tales.
MacDonald, Caroline.  Hostilities.
McDonald, Collin.  The Chilling Hour: Tales of the Real and Unreal.
McDonald, Collin.  Shadows and Whispers: Tales from the Other Side.
McKean, Tom.  Into the Candle-Lit Room, and Other Strange Tales.
Nixon, Joan Lowery.  Ghost Town: Seven Ghostly Stories.
Pearce, Philippa, ed.  A Century of Children's Ghost Stories: Tales of Dread and Delight.
Pearce, Philippa.  Familiar and Haunting: Collected Stories.
Pepper, Dennis.  The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings.
Poe, Edgar Allan.  Tales of Terror.
Poe, Edgar Allan.  Weird Tales of Edgar Allan Poe.
Stearns, Michael, ed.  A Nightmare's Dozen: Stories from the Dark.
Vande Velde, Vivian.  Being Dead: Stories.
Westall, Robert.  The Haunting of Chas McGill, and Other Stories.
Yolen, Jane, ed.  The Haunted House: A Collection of Original Stories.
Yolen, Jane, ed.  Things That Go Bump in the Night: A Collection of Original Stories.
Yolen, Jane, ed.  Vampires: A Collection of Original Stories.

Science Fiction

Bradbury, Ray.  The Martian Chronicles.
Cart, Michael.  Tomorrowland: 10 Stories about the Future.
Hughes, Monica, ed.  What If? Amazing Stories.
L'Engle, Madeleine, ed.  Second Sight: Stories for a New Millennium.
Read into the Millennium: Tales of the Future.
Skinner, David.  Thundershine: Tales of Metakids.

Sports

Crutcher, Chris.  Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories.
Durant, Alan, ed.  Sports Stories.
Gallo, Donald R. ed.  Ultimate Sports: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults.
Macy, Sue, ed.  Girls Got Game: Sports Stories and Poems.
Taylor, Theodore.  Rogue Wave, and Other Red-Blooded Sea Stories.