The short story in Literature is a few pages of beginning, middle and end peopled by characters who quickly draw themselves into its arc from the minds of their authors.

How these authors, including Herman Melville, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, M R James and Violet Hunt imagine their characters journeys is, of course, illuminating, thought-provoking and classic literature.

1 - Stories with The Writer as Protagonist - An Introduction

2 - Bobok by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

3 - The Devil In Manuscript by Nathaniel Hawthorne

4 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy

5 - The Art of BookMaking by Washington Irving

6 - The Fiddler by Herman Melville

7 - The Eyes by Edith Wharton

8 - Count Magnus by M R James

9 - His Wife's Deceased Sister by Frank R Stockton

10 - The House of Cobwebs by George Gissing

11 - Room For One by Frederick Cowles

12 - Couching at the Door by D K Broster

13 - The Vampire Maid by Hume Nisbet

14 - Truth is Not Sober by Winifred Holtby

15 - The Plutonian Fire by O Henry

16 - A Sucessful Rehearsal by Anthony Hope

17 - The Memoir by Violet Hunt

18 - Warning Whispers by A M Burrage