Here we have the inevitable "miscellaneous" category of Victorian fiction. Some of the authors included here will undoubtedly be familiar names - including Henry James, Jules Verne, Victor Hugo, and more. Others may be less familiar. In the former category, we've included the stories simply because they are by well-known authors (and we admit we haven't read them all!). In the latter category, we've selected stories on the simple basis of enjoyment. If we've read it and liked it, it's included here. Since there are still hundreds of stories to be found in our magazine collection that we haven't had a chance to read yet, there's a chance this section may grow over time! This section includes short stories and serials, first by author and then by date of publication.

Alden, W.L.

Carter's Incandescent Cats (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1895)

A Scientific Balloon (Windsor Magazine, 1896A)

Besieged (Windsor Magazine, 1899B)

Pratt's Cats (The Strand, 1900B)

Anstey, F.

The Brass Bottle (119 pages) (The Strand, 1900AB)

The Adventure of the Snowing Globe (The Strand, 1905B)

"Ferdie," (The Strand, 1907B)

The Changelings (The Strand, 1910B)

Augusta, Clara

Too Much of a Good Thing (Peterson's, 1866)

Balzac

A Passion in the Desert (The Strand, 1891A)

Barr, Robert

The Mystery of the Expert (The Strand, 1901A)

Besant, Walter

Quarantine Island (The Strand, 1891B)

One and Two (The Strand, 1893A)

Bishop, William Henry

A Little Dinner (Century Magazine, 1888A)

Black, Ivory

Orpiment & Gamboge (Century Magazine, 1885A)

Boden, G.H.

The Discovery of London (Windsor Magazine, 1903A)

Brooks, Noah

The Phantom Sailor (Century Magazine, 1882B)

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Esmeralda: A Play in Four Acts (Century Magazine, 1882A)

Butler, Ellis Parker

Pigs Is Pigs (The Strand, 1905)

Carroll, Emily B.

Mr. and Mrs. Pidgeon's Visit to Their City Friends, as Related by Mr. Pidgeon (Godey's Lady's Book, 1863)

Chandler, Bessie

The Woman's Edition (Ladies Home Journal, 1896)

Chaplin, Stewart

Mr. Jack's Promotion (Century Magazine, 1882A)

Connell, F. Norreys

The Golden Tiger (The Strand, 1899A)

Cooper, A.B.

The Snowman (The Strand, 1902B)

The perils of committing (or attempting to commit) a jewel robbery at Christmastide...

Crane, Stephen

The Revenge of the "Adolphus," (The Strand, 1899B)

Cranson, J.H.

The Metamorphosis of Corpus Delicti (Windsor Magazine, 1899B)

Crawford, F. Marion

"Man Overboard!" (The Strand, 1903A)

Dam, J.H.W.

The Tax on Moustaches (The Strand, 1899A)

Daudet, Alfonse

Quastana, the Brigand (The Strand, 1893A)

Dayre, Sidney

That Tea-Pot (Peterson's, 1883)

de Maupassant, Guy

The Doctor's Story (The Strand, 1891B)

The Prisoners (The Strand, 1892B)

Ulrich the Guide (The Strand, 1896A)

Clochette (The Strand, 1898B)

Dumas, Alexandre

Zodomirsky's Duel (The Strand, 1892A)

Marceau's Prisoner (The Strand, 1892B)

Fenn, George Manville

An Alarming Sacrifice (The Strand, 1902A)

Futrelle, Jacques

The Chase of the Golden Plate (a story in three parts) (The Strand, 1907B-1908A)

Gallon, Tom

Mrs. Timson-Smith's Lion (The Strand, 1903A)

Harrison, F. Bayford

That Stout German (The Strand, 1894A)

Hering, Henry A.

The Ghosts of Nether Talkington (Windsor Magazine, 1897A)

Silas P. Cornu's Dry Calculator (Windsor Magazine, 1898A)

Holley, Marietta

Bylining herself as "Josiah Allen's wife [Samantha]", Marietta Holley wrote extensively on women's rights, particularly the right to vote. I highly recommend her novel, My Opinions and Betsy Bobbett's, available on Archive.org. (Note that the word "spear" is used in these tales as a dialect version of "sphere," as in "the woman's sphere".)

How the Bamberses Borrowed Josiah/What Came of Borrowin' Josiah (Peterson's, 1879)

Tirzah Ann's Summer Trip (Peterson's, 1879)

An Angel of the Slums (Ladies' Home Journal, 1892)

Hooper, Will Phillip

The Laggard Letter's Luck (Demorest, 1889)

Hugo, Victor

Jenny (The Strand, 1891A)

Hume, Andrew

Boney's Bonfire (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1896)

James, Henry

The Point of View (Century Magazine, 1883A)

Lady Barberina (Century Magazine, 1884B)

The Bostonians (183 pages) (Century Magazine, 1885A-1886A)

The Liar (Century Magazine, 1888B)

Janvier, Thomas

A Loan of Half-Orphans (Century Magazine, 1894B)

Jenks, Tudor

The Dragon's Story (St. Nicholas, 1889)

The Pygmy Fleet (St. Nicholas, 1889)

Papa Dragon's Tale (St. Nicholas, 1900A)

Abbie's Accounts: A Monologue (Century Magazine, 1898A)

Larkin, Leonard

The House that Jerry Built, by Leonard Larkin (The Strand, 1902)

Litchfield, Grace Denio

The Price I Paid for a Set of Ruskin (Century Magazine, 1884B)

MacManus, Seamus

The Son of Strength, an Irish Story for Children (The Strand, 1902)

How Dark Patrick Saved the Honour of Ireland (The Strand, 1905B)

Long Cromachy of the Crows (The Strand, 1905B)

Marsh, Richard

Capturing a Convict (The Strand, 1893B)

How I Drove a Motor Car for Randall (The Strand, 1901A)

A Girl Who Couldn't (The Strand, 1903A)

A Modest Half-Crown (The Strand, 1904B)

Her Fourth (The Strand, 1905B)

Matthews, Brander

Perturbed Spirits (Century Magazine, 1886B)

The New Member of the Club (Century Magazine, 1893A)

Maturin, Mrs. Fred

"For a Charity," (The Strand, 1900B)

Maugham, William Somerset

A Point of Law (The Strand, 1903B)

An Irish Gentleman (The Strand, 1904B)

Mills, John

The Aerial Brickfield (Windsor Magazine, 1897B)

Molyneux, Beatrice

The Touching Tale of a Plum Pudding (Windsor Magazine, 1897A)

Morrison, Arthur

Lost Tommy Jepps (The Strand, 1902B)

The Stolen Blenkinsop (The Strand, 1908B)

See the Victorian Detectives page for more stories by Arthur Morrison.

Nesbit, E.

Jock and Saccharissa, by E. Nesbit and Edgar Jepson (English Illustrated Magazine, 1899A)

Unexceptionable References (Windsor Magazine, 1902A)

See also E. Nesbit's Children's Stories.

Oxenham, John

The Ca*****t Came Back (The Strand, 1899A)

Pilleau, F. Startin

The Vision of Inverstrathy Castle (The Strand, 1894B)

The Vision of Inverstrathy Castle Sequel (The Strand, 1895B)

Pushkin, Alexander

The Pistol Shot (The Strand, 1891A)

The Queen of Spades (The Strand, 1891A)

The Snowstorm (The Strand, 1891A)

Pyle, Howard

A Set of Sketches (Century Magazine, 1894A)

Ragge, Walter

A Modern Gelert (The Strand, 1900B)

Roose, David

Dobson's Plots (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1889)

Slade, Alfred

How They Carried the Bad News to Parson's Green (Windsor Magazine, 1898B)

Stoddard, William

Annexed by the Tsar (Atlantic Monthly, 1883)

Thomlinson, H.

How I Committed My Murder (The Strand, 1902B)

Townshend, R.B.

A Motor in the Bull-Ring (The Strand, 1903)

Turner, Ethel

The Doing of It (Windsor Magazine, 1896B)

What the Postman Brought (Windsor Magazine, 1898B)

Verne, Jules

Dr. Trifulgas: A Fantastic Tale (The Strand, 1892B)

An Express of the Future (The Strand, 1895B)

Ward, Marion

A Glut in Turkeys (The Strand, 1903)

A Rivalry in Flowers (The Strand, 1905B)

Weaver, Jane

The White Sparrow (Peterson's, 1856)

White, William Allen

"While the Evil Days Come Not:" A Boyville Story (McClure's, 1898)

Williams, Canning

The Chickens Parade (The Strand, 1898A)

Williamson, Alice

The Robbery of Foxboro, and How It Was Detected (The Strand, 1894B)

Williamson, W.H.

"Morbus Nobilis," or the Plaster Brigade (The Strand, 1895B)

Wishaw, Fred

A Stolen Battleship (Windsor Magazine, 1899B)

Anonymous/Author Unknown

An Awkward Fix, translated from the French (The Strand, 1893B)

Dobsonian Christmas Gifts (Godey's Lady's Book, 1867)

Madame's Little Plot (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1878)

Our "Varnished" Ancestors (Peterson's, 1879)

The Wrong Baby (Demorest, 1887)