National Health Museum
Access Excellence Mysteries: The Mystery Spot
Here are a list of interesting interactive mysteries to go along with your science lessons. Students go through a short story and then try to solve the mystery. Topics include space, environmental issues, disease, and forensics. These...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Taking the Mystery Out of Writing a Mystery
This mystery-writing activity focuses on the structure of a short story and the elements of a mystery in particular. Students complete the entire writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Students...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Blind Spot" by H. H. Munro
This is the text of the short story "The Blind Spot" by H. H. Munro, a murder mystery.
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Classic Reader: "The Master of Mystery" by Jack London
Text of the short story "The Master of Mystery" by Jack London. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Classic Reader: "A Mystery Explained" by t.s. Arthur
Text of the short story "A Mystery Explained" by American author T.S. Arthur. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Classic Reader: "The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem" by Arthur Quiller Couch
Text of the short story "The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem" by British author Arthur Quiller-Couch. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Classic Reader: "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley" by Arthur Conan Doyle
Text of the short story "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley" by Arthur Conan Doyle. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Classic Reader: "The Wolves of Cernogratz" by h.h Munro
H.H. Munro is well known for his stories of magic and mystery. In "The Wolves of Cernogratz" the Cernogratz family has to sell off their castle when they fall on hard times. Read the full text of the short story on this site.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Wrong Sign" by Melville Davisson Post
Melville Davisson Post was known for writing mysteries. Read one of his short stories "The Wrong Sign" on this site.
Reading Is Fundamental
Reading Is Fundamental: Illustrate a Story: Mystery of the Mummy's Maze [Pdf]
Print this short mystery story for your advanced English language learners to illustrate. The story gives preterit and pluperfect tense practice.
Other
Mystery Net Kids Mysteries: Mysteries by Kids Winners
This site offers links to the winning stories from MysteryNet's mini-mystery writing contest for kids. They provide good reading practice and/or models for story writing activities.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Southern Renaissance: Flannery O'connor
Flannery O'Connor is featured in this biography for her contributions to literature through many short stories, in most of which she created rural southern characters. See "Flannery O'Connor Activities" for related materials.
Georgetown University
Georgetown University: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 1849)
This site is a professor's guide for students. This guide features information on how to distinguish between Poe and his narrators in his stories.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "American Horses" by Melville Davisson Post
This is the text of the short story "American Horses" by Melville Davisson Post, a mystery.
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Classic Reader: "Will It Pay" by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart was a prolific mystery writer. "Will it Pay" is a tale of greed that you can read on this site.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Gothic Undercurrents: Edgar Allan Poe
This biography features Edgar Allan Poe who introduced the genre of horror and mystery to literature in the nineteenth century with stories such as "The Raven."
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
"In this unit, students explore the artistry that helped make Irving our nation's first literary master and ponder the mystery that now haunts every Halloween -- What happened to Ichabod Crane?"
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Tim O'brien Lesson Plans
For teaching the work of Tim O'Brien, this site features lesson plans, overviews, notes, and other resources to help young scholars reading The Things They Carried, Ambush, Going After Cacciato, If I Die in a Combat Zone, and so on.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Plausibility of Denial: Tim O'brien, My Lai, and America
The Progressive magazine article is reprinted here. It is an excellent examination of the Vietnam War in literature. (Published: December 1994)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Harmony by Ring Lardner
Read the full text of the short story "Harmony" by Ring Lardner that is both a baseball story and a mystery.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: The Black Cat
This site contains interesting information about the mystery writer Edgar Allan Poe. In addition, the short story, The Black Cat, is analysed in terms of characters and themes
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Classic Reader: A Carnival Jangle by Alice Dunbar
Read the short story "A Carnival Jangle" by Alice Dunbar which is filled with carnival excitement and mysteries.
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Classic Reader: The Cobweb by h.h. Munro
Read the mysterious short story "The Cobweb" by H.H. Munro, otherwise known as Saki.
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Classic Reader: Death at the Excelsior by p.g. Wodehouse
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published in 1914, one short story is Death at the Excelsior. This work was the written by the British author, P.G. Wodehouse.