Stories of adventure emphasize startling events rather than character.
Love stories emphasize courtship and the episodes of romantic love.
Local color stories reveal marked characteristics of custom and language, and the oddities of life notable in a particular locality.
Dialect stories make use of the language peculiarities found in common use by a particular type of people.
Stories of the supernatural deal with ghostly characters and uncanny forces.
Stories of mystery present puzzling problems, and slowly, step by step, lead the readers to satisfactory solutions.
Animal stories, whether realistic or romantic, concern the lives of animals.
Stories of allegory, through symbolic characters and events, reveal moral truths.
Stories of satire, by ridiculing types of character, social customs, or methods of action, tend to awaken a spirit of reform.
Stories of science present narratives based upon the exposition and the actual use of scientific facts.