Visual Impairment Icon

🔍

The

Victorian Short Fiction Project

A digital anthology

Browse our 388 Stories

A row of books

by title, author, journal, year, or topic

Featured Story

A Statement of Fax Relative to the Late Murder (1829)

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Example page from A Statement of Fax Relative to the Late Murder

Explore more stories in our Humor collection.

Born on This Day

Robert Barr

1849-1912

Portrait of Robert Barr

Explore stories by this author