Undiscovered Poe? Early Works Before ‘The Black Cat’
Did the Post print several anonymous pieces by Edgar Allan Poe before we printed his classic short story, The Black Cat?
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Tag Archives: fiction
Ride Along
An engrossing new short story from mystery writer Brendan DuBois.
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Book Review: Touch of Power
Fantasy fans will delight at the first book in a new trilogy.
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Book Review: Defending Jacob
William Landay’s legal thriller examines the lives of a family in crisis.
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Book Review: The Golden Mean
The budding relationship between Alexander the Great and Aristotle in Annabel Lyon’s historical fiction makes The Golden Mean worth a read.
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The Little Miller Attack
Living in a small town, you can never really escape your past—a gripping new story from an emerging literary voice.
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Death and Ms. FitzSimons
When a man with terminal cancer goes off into the snowy woods to meet death, he finds more than he bargained for.
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Famous Contributors: O. Henry
O. Henry may have taken his famous name in prison, but his witty short stories—like this 1903 Post original—are why we remember his name today.
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Charlie Chan: The Case of the Oriental Detective
Was Charlie Chan a racist stereotype—or was there something more to this popular detective who appeared in the pages of the Post?
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Miss Temptation
A soldier just back from Korea disrupts a small town’s daily ritual—and makes a pretty girl cry—in Kurt Vonnegut’s well-loved short story.
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The No-Talent Kid
Nothing could shake Walter’s determination to get into the marching band. So how could his conductor tell him how misplaced his ambition was?
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Famous Contributers: Edgar Allan Poe
Read Edgar Allan Poe’s spine-tingling short story “The Black Cat,” which was first published in the Post in 1843.
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Children of Paranoia
Enter the kill-or-be-killed world of Trevor Shane’s debut novel, Children of Paranoia.
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Gutted
The Post presents the winning entry in the 2010 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition
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As the Spirit Moves VI: Mrs. Couch & Mrs. Thill
She has a way of asking you how you feel that would make you swear you could smell lilies.
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As the Spirit Moves V: Aunt Bertha’s Snappy Work
I would back Aunt Bertha against any living solitaire player for any amount of money you want, only providing that the judges leave the room during the contest.
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“As the Spirit Moves” Part IV: Henry G. Takes to Verse
She has been accomplishing perfect wonders on the Ouija board; she swung a wicked plan chette right from the start.
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