Books about Short stories, American (sorted alphabetically)
- Under Sail Lincoln Colcord
- unique story book Anonymous
- Vain oblations Katharine Fullerton Gerould
- Valley of Vision : A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales Henry Van Dyke
- Veiled Lady, and Other Men and Women Francis Hopkinson Smith
- Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color Brander Matthews
- Viking's love: and other tales of the North Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
- Village Ophelia, and Other Stories Anne Reeve Aldrich
- Vistas of New York Brander Matthews
- Waifs and strays [part 1] O. Henry
- Wanderers Mary Johnston
- Water Goats, and Other Troubles Ellis Parker Butler
- Welsh Rarebit Tales Harle Oren Cummins
- When You Were a Boy Edwin L. Sabin
- Whilomville Stories Stephen Crane
- Whirligigs O. Henry
- White Shield Myrtle Reed
- Whom the Gods Destroyed Josephine Daskam Bacon
- Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
- Wind-Jammers T. Jenkins Hains
- Wolfert's Roost, and Miscellanies Washington Irving
- Wood Fire in No. 3 Francis Hopkinson Smith
- Wounds in the rain: War stories Stephen Crane
- Woven with the Ship: A Novel of 1865 Cyrus Townsend Brady
- Young Mountaineers: Short Stories Charles Egbert Craddock