Classic Short Stories from Famous Writers
About the Stories
Read these classic short stories from famous writers, each one hand-chosen for our Penny Magic readers. Some scary, some thoughtful, all delightful. Select stories are also available in audio format on the Penny Magic Podcast.
About Penny Magic
Penny Magic is a publisher of delightful stories in print, online, and in audio form on our podcast. In our volumes of original short stories, we publish ten stories over ten weeks based around a theme, almost like short story mixtapes.
The Book of Beasts
By E. Nesbit
The Story of an Hour
By Kate Chopin
The Lady, or The Tiger?
By Frank R. Stockton
A Haunted House
By Virginia Woolf
A Jury of Her Peers
By Susan Glaspell
The Tell-Tale Heart
By Edgar Allan Poe
The Monkey’s Paw
By W.W. Jacobs
Spunk
By Zora Neale Hurston
Two Friends
By Guy de Maupassant
THe Gift of the Magi
By O. Henry
VIolets
By Alice Ruth Moore
The Bet
By Anton Chekhov
The Selfish Giant
By Oscar Wilde
The Cask of Amontillado
by Edgar Allan Poe
Cat in the Rain
By Ernest Hemingway
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
By Mark Twain
The Overcoat
By Nikolai Gogol
God sees the truth, but waits
By Leo Tolstoy
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