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 Stories2 - Youth - Part 1 by Joseph Conrad3 - Youth - Part 2 by Joseph Conrad4 - The Student by Anton Chekhov5 - The Cabman's Story. The Mysteries of a London Growler by Arthur Conan Doyle6 - An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyveskey7 - A Fragment of Stained Glass by D H Lawrence8 - The Mass of Shadows by Anatol France9 - Lost in a Pyramid (or, The Mummy's Curse) by Louisa May Alcott writing as A M Bernard10 - For the Blood is the Life by F Marion Crawford11 - Ghost in the Cupboard Room by Wilkie Collins12 - Smee by A M Burrage13 - St Johns Eve by Nikolai Gogol14 - The Hand by Guy de Maupassant15 - The Namesake by Willa Cather16 - A Twin Identity by Edith Stewart Drewery17 - The Prediction - Part 1 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey18 - The Prediction - Part 2 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey19 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon20 - Jerry Bundler by W W Jacobs21 - The Story of B 24 by Arthur Conan Doyle22 - The Brute by Joseph Conrad23 - About Love by Anton Chekhov