Short stories (with date of first publication)
- "How I Built Myself A House" (1865) X
- "Destiny and a Blue Cloak" (1874) X
- "The Thieves Who Couldn't Stop Sneezing" (1877) X
- "The Duchess of Hamptonshire" (1878)
- "The Distracted Preacher" (1879)
- "Fellow-Townsmen" (1880)
- "The Honourable Laura" (1881) X
- "What The Shepherd Saw" (1881)
- "A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four" (1882)
- "The Three Strangers" (1883) X
- "The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid" (1883) X
- "Interlopers at the Knap" (1884) X
- "A Mere Interlude" (1885)
- "A Tryst at an Ancient Earthwork" (1885)
- "Alicia's Diary" (1887) X
- "The Waiting Supper" (1887–88)
- "The Withered Arm" (1888)
- "A Tragedy of Two Ambitions" (1888)
- "The First Countess of Wessex" (1889)
- "Anna, Lady Baxby" (1890)
- "The Lady Icenway" (1890)
- "Lady Mottisfont" (1890)
- "The Lady Penelope" (1890)
- "The Marchioness of Stonehenge" (1890) X
- "Squire Petrick's Lady" (1890)
- "Barbara of the House of Grebe" (1890) X
- "The Melancholy Hussar of The German Legion" (1890) X
- "Absent-Mindedness in a Parish Choir" (1891) X
- "The Winters and the Palmleys" (1891)
- "For Conscience' Sake" (1891)
- "Incident in Mr. Crookhill's Life"(1891)
- "The Doctor's Legend" (1891)
- "Andrey Satchel and the Parson and Clerk" (1891)
- "The History of the Hardcomes" (1891)
- "Netty Sargent's Copyhold" (1891)
- "On The Western Circuit" (1891)
- "A Few Crusted Characters: Introduction" (1891)
- "The Superstitious Man's Story" (1891)
- "Tony Kytes, the Arch-Deceiver" (1891)
- "To Please His Wife" (1891) X
- "The Son's Veto" (1891)
- "Old Andrey's Experience as a Musician" (1891)
- "Our Exploits At West Poley" (1892–93)
- "Master John Horseleigh, Knight" (1893)
- "The Fiddler of the Reels" (1893) X
- "An Imaginative Woman" (1894) X
- "The Spectre of the Real" (1894)
- "A Committee-Man of 'The Terror'" (1896)
- "The Duke's Reappearance" (1896)
- "The Grave by the Handpost" (1897)
- "A Changed Man" (1900) X
- "Enter a Dragoon" (1900)
- "Blue Jimmy: The Horse Stealer" (1911)
- "Old Mrs. Chundle" (1929)
- "The Unconquerable"(1992) X