Short Stories About Mental Illness: A collection of stories about characters struggling with their mental health

Written by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Amy Levy, Catherine Wells and 8 more

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, David Shaw-Parker

For many of us illness refers solely to the physical. Accidents and disease wear us down, hiccup our life from childhood to old age. But everyone empathises, understands and helps us on the road to recovery.

Mental illness though can still carry a stigma. A case of ‘you’re not trying hard enough’, ‘or knuckling down and getting on with it’. But in more recent decades mental issues have come to be recognised as an illness, a disease rather than an affliction. We all remember horror stories of lobotomy’s and electric shock being used to ‘cure’ what society viewed as anti-social behaviour but illness, mental or physical is very real. Depression, schizophrenia, breakdown, psychosis, are alarming events to have or to witness.

In this volume our classic authors including Sherwood Anderson, Amy Levy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Barry Pain and many others explore this oft neglected and most difficult of topics.

1 - Short Stories About Mental Illness - An Introduction

2 - Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol

3 - The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

4 - Sokratics in the Strand by Amy Levy

5 - A Complete Recovery by Barry Pain

6 - Diary of a Lunatic by Leo Tolstoy

7 - Adventure by Sherwood Anderson

8 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall

9 - Hide And Seek or Pliatki by Fyodor Sologub

10 - Brothers by Sherwood Anderson

11 - Fear by Catherine Wells

12 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain

13 - Shut Out by F Anstey

14 - The Miracle by John Davys Beresford

15 - The Lie by Leonid Andreyev

16 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

17 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

18 - The Last of Squire Ennismore by Charlotte Riddell

19 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy

20 - The City by Leonid Andreyev

21 - In the Séance Room by Lettice Galbraith

22 - A Red Flower by Vsevolod Garshin

23 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson

24 - Silence by Leonid Nikolaevich Andreyev

25 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Nov 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781803545776

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Nikolai Gogol was a Russian novelist and playwright born in what is now considered part of the modern Ukraine. By the time he was 15, Gogol worked as an amateur writer for both Russian and Ukrainian scripts, and then turned his attention and talent to prose. His short-story collections were immediately successful and his first novel, The Government Inspector, was well-received. Gogol went on to publish numerous acclaimed works, including Dead Souls, The Portrait, Marriage, and a revision of Taras Bulba. He died in 1852 while working on the second part of Dead Souls.