Pick your subject and use the Library catalog to search for stories related to it. Or just browse through the Library’s collections until you find something interesting – try looking in the stacks and in the Story Room at the following Dewey decimal numbers:

Short story collections are found in the Fiction section and are marked with a green dot. We also have back issues of Cricket magazine in the Library office – another great resource for short stories!

2. Internet Sources

American Folklore Story Index

http://www.americanfolklore.net/sindex.html

Bulfinch’s Mythology

http://www.bulfinch.org/

Concise Folktale Plots for Retelling

http://www.storyarts.org/library/nutshell/

Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World

http://www.darsie.net/talesofwonder/

Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

Indigenous Peoples’ Literature

http://www.indians.org/Resource/natlit/natlit.html

The Moonlit Road: Ghost Stories and Folktales of the American South

http://www.themoonlitroad.com/

Ojibway Legends

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/clan/legends/local.htm