Books about Short stories, American (sorted alphabetically)
- Parenticide Club Ambrose Bierce
- Parenticide Club Ambrose Bierce
- Peace in Friendship Village Zona Gale
- Pencil Sketches; or, Outlines of Character and Manners Eliza Leslie
- play that won Ralph Henry Barbour
- Poker Jim, Gentleman, and Other Tales and Sketches G. Frank Lydston
- Portland, Oregon, A.D. 1999, and other sketches J. W. Hayes
- Postmark Ganymede Robert Silverberg
- Postscripts O. Henry
- Praying Skipper, and Other Stories Ralph Delahaye Paine
- Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Ambrose Bierce
- Princess Pourquoi Margaret Pollock Sherwood
- private life, The wheel of time, Lord Beaupré, The visits, Collaboration, Owen Wingrave. Henry James
- Quaint Courtships
- Queen of the Swamp, and other plain Americans Mary Hartwell Catherwood
- Queen Versus Billy, and Other Stories Lloyd Osbourne
- Queer Luck: Poker Stories from the New York Sun David A. Curtis
- quilt of happiness; Creeping Jenny; and other New England stories Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
- Race of the Swift Edwin Carlile Litsey
- Raw Material Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Red Wagon Stories; or, Tales Told Under the Tent Wells Hawks
- Revolt of the Oyster Don Marquis
- Roads of Destiny O. Henry
- Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature Henry Van Dyke
- Running Free James B. Connolly