"Who is this—this—" Joe's voice trembled with annoyance. "Look out now," said the man slowly.
Illustrated by Grant Reynard
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) “A Short Trip Home” was his first ghost story. Masterfully written, Fitzgerald keeps the action tense and the intrigue abundant from beginning to end. For anyone interested in Fitzgerald, this is a must-read.
Read “A Short Trip Home” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published December 17, 1927.
Great little story. Thanks. I’d love to see a western from the archive sometime. Maybe Eugene Manlove Rhodes?
Can you send this to me in a larger font, it’s too small for me to read.
Thank you
Why not try and find new authors who write stories like this? Magazines aren’t doing this and it’s frustrating. You have to turn to old books to read decent stories and poems. Esquire used to have stories like this and now they are very crude and dumbed-down. The Atlantic has a few poems but no monthly fiction. I think it would be radical and welcoming if SEP decided to go all out and run lots of new stories by new authors who write well and write stories like this. If there are readers who hunger for it, there have got to be writers who are writing it and are not having luck in the mainstream. Go find them.
Enjoyed this story. Please do more Scott Fitzgerald.
This story was pretty good. The narrator reminded me of Nick, the narrator in The Great Gatsby. This was partly because the narrator in this story appears to be objective to what is going on around him and then without asking he’s thrown into the plot with all the rest. I would have liked some specifics but then this would have taken away much of the mystery. The descriptions throughout the story of the natural environment are a nice touch.
