Stories about Stories

In ancient days people would gather around the campfire and, until more recent times, it was the most familiar way of hearing a story. The group usually assembled in the evening, perhaps after a meal, and a story would be told. The story-teller delivering it from memory, keenly aware of the rhythm and pace necessary to keep ears listening and senses heightened. Time passes and with the written story the same technique was used. In the pens of such luminaires as Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Willa Cather, Anton Chekhov and others the indelible mark of literary story telling continues. 1 - Short Stories on Stories 2 - Youth - Part 1 by Joseph Conrad 3 - Youth - Part 2 by Joseph Conrad 4 - The Student by Anton Chekhov 5 - The Cabman's Story. The Mysteries of a London Growler by Arthur Conan Doyle 6 - An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyveskey 7 - A Fragment of Stained Glass by D H Lawrence 8 - The Mass of Shadows by Anatol France 9 - Lost in a Pyramid (or, The Mummy's Curse) by Louisa May Alcott writing as A M Bernard 10 - For the Blood is the Life by F Marion Crawford 11 - Ghost in the Cupboard Room by Wilkie Collins 12 - Smee by A M Burrage 13 - St Johns Eve by Nikolai Gogol 14 - The Hand by Guy de Maupassant 15 - The Namesake by Willa Cather 16 - A Twin Identity by Edith Stewart Drewery 17 - The Prediction - Part 1 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey 18 - The Prediction - Part 2 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey 19 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon 20 - Jerry Bundler by W W Jacobs 21 - The Story of B 24 by Arthur Conan Doyle 22 - The Brute by Joseph Conrad 23 - About Love by Anton Chekhov