Books about Short stories, American (sorted alphabetically)
- Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Ambrose Bierce
- Princess Pourquoi Margaret Pollock Sherwood
- private life, The wheel of time, Lord Beaupré, The visits, Collaboration, Owen Wingrave. Henry James
- Quaint Courtships
- Queen of the Swamp, and other plain Americans Mary Hartwell Catherwood
- Queen Versus Billy, and Other Stories Lloyd Osbourne
- Queer Luck: Poker Stories from the New York Sun David A. Curtis
- quilt of happiness; Creeping Jenny; and other New England stories Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
- Race of the Swift Edwin Carlile Litsey
- Raw Material Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Red Wagon Stories; or, Tales Told Under the Tent Wells Hawks
- Revolt of the Oyster Don Marquis
- Roads of Destiny O. Henry
- Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature Henry Van Dyke
- Running Free James B. Connolly
- Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Sandburrs Alfred Henry Lewis
- Scarecrow, and Other Stories G. Ranger Wormser
- Selected Stories of Bret Harte Bret Harte
- Selections from Poe Edgar Allan Poe
- Sentimental Vikings R. V. Risley
- Shadows and sunbeams: Being a second series of Fern leaves from Fanny's portfolio Fanny Fern
- Shadowy Third, and Other Stories Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
- Shapes that Haunt the Dusk
- Short Sixes": Stories to be Read While the Candle Burns H. C. Bunner