page_title: Jack London
section_title: Short stories
hierarchical_section_title: Jack London / Publications / Short stories
caption_attribution_description: English: Famous Fantastic Mysteries, February 1949
context_page_description: John Griffith London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.
  His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The Heathen".
  London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, workers' rights, socialism, and eugenics. He wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.
context_section_description: "An Old Soldier's Story" (1894)
  "Who Believes in Ghosts!" (1895)
  "And 'FRISCO Kid Came Back" (1895)
  "Night's Swim In Yeddo Bay" (1895)
  "One More Unfortunate" (1895)
  "Sakaicho, Hona Asi And Hakadaki" (1895)
  "A Klondike Christmas" (1897)
  "Mahatma's Little Joke" (1897)
  "O Haru" (1897)
  "Plague Ship" (1897)
  "The Strange Experience Of A Misogynist" (1897)
  "Two Gold Bricks" (1897)
  "The Devil's Dice Box" (1898)
  "A Dream Image" (1898)
  "The Test: A Clondyke Wooing" (1898)
  "To the Man on Trail" (1898)
  "In a Far Country" (1899)
  "The King of Mazy May" (1899)
  "The End Of The Chapter" (1899)
  "The Grilling Of Loren Ellery" (1899)
  "The Handsome Cabin Boy" (1899)
  "In The Time Of Prince Charley" (1899)
  "Old Baldy" (1899)
  "The Men of Forty Mile" (1899)
  "Pluck and Pertinacity" (1899)
  "The Rejuvenation of Major Rathbone" (1899)
  "The White Silence" (1899)
  "A Thousand Deaths" (1899)
  "Wisdom of the Trail" (1899)
  "An Odyssey of the North" (1899)
  "The Son of the Wolf" (1900)
  "Even unto Death" (1900)
  "The Man with the Gash" (1900)
  "A Lesson in Heraldry" (1900)
  "A Northland Miracle" (1900)
  "Proper "GIRLIE"" (1900)
  "Thanksgiving on Slav Creek" (1900)
  "Their Alcove" (1900)
  "Housekeeping in the Klondike" (1900)
  "Dutch Courage" (1900)
  "Where the Trail Forks" (1900)
  "Hyperborean Brew" (1901)
  "A Relic of the Pliocene" (1901)
  "The Lost Poacher" (1901)
  "The God of His Fathers" (1901)
  ""FRISCO Kid's" Story" (1901)
  "The Law of Life" (1901)
  "The Minions of Midas" (1901)
  "In the Forests of the North" (1902)
  "The "Fuzziness" of Hoockla-Heen" (1902)
  "The Story of Keesh" (1902)
  "Keesh, Son of Keesh" (1902)
  "Nam-Bok, the Unveracious" (1902)
  "Li Wan the Fair" (1902)
  "Lost Face"
  "Master of Mystery" (1902)
  "The Sunlanders" (1902)
  "The Death of Ligoun" (1902)
  "Moon-Face" (1902)
  "Diable—A Dog" (1902), renamed Bâtard in 1904
  "To Build a Fire" (1902, revised 1908)
  "The League of the Old Men" (1902)
  "The Dominant Primordial Beast" (1903)
  "The One Thousand Dozen" (1903)
  "The Marriage of Lit-lit" (1903)
  "The Shadow and the Flash" (1903)
  "The Leopard Man's Story" (1903)
  "Negore the Coward" (1904)
  "All Gold Cañon" (1905)
  "Love of Life" (1905)
  "The Sun-Dog Trail" (1905)
  "The Apostate" (1906)
  "Up the Slide" (1906)
  "Planchette" (1906)
  "Brown Wolf" (1906)
  "Make Westing" (1907)
  "Chased by the Trail" (1907)
  "Trust" (1908)
  "A Curious Fragment" (1908)
  "Aloha Oe" (1908)
  "That Spot" (1908)
  "The Enemy of All the World" (1908)
  "The House of Mapuhi" (1909)
  "Good-by, Jack" (1909)
  "Samuel" (1909)
  "The Strength of the Strong" (1909)
  "South of the Slot" (1909)
  "The Chinago" (1909)
  "The Dream of Debs" (1909)
  "The Madness of John Harned" (1909)
  "The Seed of McCoy" (1909)
  "A Piece of Steak" (1909)
  "Mauki" (1909)
  "The Whale Tooth" (1909)
  "Goliath" (1910)
  "The Unparalleled Invasion" (1910)
  "Told in the Drooling Ward" (1910)
  "When the World was Young" (1910)
  "The Terrible Solomons" (1910)
  "The Inevitable White Man" (1910)
  "The Heathen" (1910)
  "Yah! Yah! Yah!" (1910)
  "War" (1910)
  "By the Turtles of Tasman" (1911)
  "The Mexican" (1911)
  "The Unmasking of the Cad" (1911)
  "The Scarlet Plague" (1912)
  "The Captain of the Susan Drew" (1912)
  "The Sea-Farmer" (1912)
  "The Feathers of the Sun" (1912)
  "The Prodigal Father" (1912)
  "Samuel" (1913)
  "The Sea-Gangsters" (1913)
  "The Hussy" (1916)
  "Like Argus of the Ancient Times" (1917)
  "Jerry of the Islands" (1917)
  "The Red One" (1918)
  "Shin-Bones" (1918)
  "The Bones of Kahekili" (1919)
caption: The Scarlet Plague was reprinted in the February 1949 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries
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