Home›Short Fiction and Fable›All Short Fiction and FableBrowse ByAll Short Fiction and FableReference and ClassificationVerifiedThe short story and the fable and its close relatives, the fairy tale and beast tale, as distinct from the novel-length narrative. Belongs here: every stand-alone short story and every fable or fairy tale collection in this atlas. Does not belong here: a short work that is itself a satire or a frame-tale collection, placed under satirical and picaresque fiction instead where that is its dominant form.FactsAll Short Fiction and FableSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1800 1All Short Fiction and FableFilter Results48 entriesGenreAllAdventure Fiction (1)Beast Fable (1)Bildungsroman (1)Children Literature (2)Coming-of-Age Story (1)Fable (5)Fairy Tale (4)Fantasy (3)Frame Story (1)Ghost Story (1)Gothic Fiction (1)Horror Fiction (2)Literary Diary (1)Philosophical Fiction (1)Romance (1)Satire (1)Science Fantasy (1)Short Fiction (24)Southern Gothic (1)The Novel (2)Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (1)AuthorAllAesop (1)Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1)Anton Chekhov (1)Carlo Collodi (1)Charles Dickens (1)Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1)Clarice Lispector (1)Dimitris Lyacos (1)Ding Ling (1)Edgar Allan Poe (2)Ernest Hemingway (2)Franz Kafka (2)Fyodor Dostoevsky (1)George Orwell (1)Guy de Maupassant (1)Hans Christian Andersen (3)Herman Melville (1)Ibn al-Muqaffa (1)Isaac Bashevis Singer (1)Jacob Grimm (1)Jean de La Fontaine (1)Joaquín Gutiérrez Mangel (1)Jorge Luis Borges (1)Leo Tolstoy (1)Lu Xun (1)Nikolai Gogol (3)Nikolai Leskov (1)O. 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Short Story (Wikipedia)Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)Short story, lead section, modern short story development sentenceQuote, Short story, lead section, modern short story development sentenceThe modern short story developed in the early 19th century.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.