Short Stories Magazine

This issue of Short Stories (May-August 1892) comprises fifteen complete stories in multiple languages and genres. Featured works include Sidney Luska's "Artist Wainwright," following an American painter at a German principality court amid succession turmoil; George Eliot's famous "The Lifted Veil," a supernatural tale; Luke Sharp's "Death Cometh Soon or Late"; Maurice Kingsley's "The Puerto de Medina," a land adventure; Opie Read's "A Horse Thief," a romantic story; and works by James Payn, Bret Harte, Wilkie Collins, Walter Besant, and others. The magazine also includes stories translated from continental sources—Alphonse Daudet, Emile Zola, and Heinrich Zschokke appear in the index. Content spans romance, adventure, Gothic elements, and social drama, reflecting the magazine's stated mission to present "selections of the best procurable in all the various languages."