Not all of the stories I recommend are easily available. Some have only appeared in athologies long out of print. To combat this, every Friday is Freebie Friday, where I ensure the story can be found for free online. You can find every free story using this tag, but for easy browsing here’s a list of all freely available stories, newest first.
But Our Hero Was Not Dead by Manly Wade Wellman
Nicholas Was by Neil Gaiman
Mongoose by Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear
A Pair of Stockings by Kate Chopin
Scoring Off Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
A General in the Library by Italo Calvino
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
Creating the Innocent Killer by John Kessel
Blessed by Helen Marshall
Three Months, Six Days by Charlie Jane Anders
The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft
A Tall Tail by Charles Stross
Understand by Ted Chiang
Negative Reinforcement by Chuck Palahniuk
Catskin by Kelly Link
I Hold My Father’s Paws by David D. Levine
Spar (The Bacon Remix) by Kij Johnson
Spar by Kij Johnson
Dead Like Me by Adam Troy-Castro
When Dickens met Dostoevsky by Eric Naiman
The Man who Carved Skulls by Richard Parks
The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth by Lord Dunsany
The Bolt Tightener by Sarena Ulibarri
Arbeitskraft by Nick Mamatas
The Adventure of the Field Theorems by Vonda N. McIntyre
Earth’s Holocaust by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Exo-Skeleton Town by Jeffrey Ford
The Screaming Skull by F. Marion Crawford
The Microscopic Giants by Paul Ernst
PauseTime by Mary Soon Lee
The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
The Silver Key by H.P. Lovecraft
Last Seen on September 10th by Mark Fass
The Other Two by Edith Wharton
The Willow Walk by Sinclair Lewis
Skull-Face by Robert E. Howard
The Cambist and Lord Iron by Daniel Abraham
The Streets of Ashkelon by Harry Harrison
Graves by Joe Haldeman
The Tourist by Paul Park
The Adder by Fred Chappell
Yellow Card Man by Paolo Bacigalupi
26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss by Kij Johnson
The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle
Disneyland with the Death Penalty by William Gibson
Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hated by Frederik Pohl
Silly Novels by Lady Novelists by George Eliot
The Ray-Gun: A Love Story by James Alan Gardner
London Bone by Michael Moorcock
The Midlist Bombers by Charles Stross
The Thief Versus King Rhampsinitus by Herodotus
The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
What’s Up Tiger Lily by Paul di Filippo
