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Short Stories and Authors

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  1. To Build a Fire

    Jack London

  2. Young Goodman Brown

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  3. The Call of Cthulhu

    H. P. Lovecraft

  4. Gimpel the Fool

    Isaac Singer

  5. The Red Pony

    John Steinbeck

  6. The Sentinel

    Arthur C. Clarke

  7. The Most Dangerous Game

    Richard Connell

  8. The Rocking-Horse Winner

    D. H. Lawrence

  9. Welcome to the Monkey House

    Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

  10. The Story of an Hour

    Kate Chopin

  11. The Lady or the Tiger?

    Frank Stockton

  12. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

    James Thurber

  13. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

    Ambrose Bierce

  14. The Purloined Letter

    Edgar Allan Poe

  15. The Fly

    Katherine Mansfield

  16. The Man Without a Country

    Edward Everett Hale

  17. A Sound of Thunder

    Ray Bradbury

  18. The Yellow Wallpaper

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  19. Lamb to the Slaughter

    Roald Dahl

  20. Brokeback Mountain

    Annie Proulx

  21. The Fall of the House of Usher

    Edgar Allan Poe

  22. The Last Question

    Isaac Asimov

  23. Paul's Case

    Willa Cather

  24. Rappaccini's Daughter

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  25. Rain

    William Somerset Maugham

  26. The Devil and Daniel Webster

    Stephen Vincent Benet

  27. The Use of Force

    William Carlos Williams

  28. The Tell-Tale Heart

    Edgar Allan Poe

  29. The Snows of Kilimanjaro

    Ernest Hemingway

  30. The Death of Ivan Ilyich

    Leo Tolstoy

  31. A Good Man Is Hard to Find

    Flannery O'Connor

  32. The Body

    Stephen King

  33. Bartleby the Scrivener

    Herman Melville

  34. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

    James Thurber

  35. The Outcasts of Poker Flat

    Bret Harte

  36. The Vampyre

    John William Polidori

  37. Oh Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad

    M. R. James

  38. Le Horla

    Guy de Maupassant

  39. The Pit and the Pendulum

    Edgar Allan Poe

  40. The Gift of the Magi

    O. Henry

  41. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

    Mark Twain

  42. A Martian Odyssey

    Stanley G. Weinbaum

  43. The Turn of the Screw

    Henry James

  44. The Luck of Roaring Camp

    Bret Harte

  45. The Murders in the Rue Morgue

    Edgar Allan Poe

  46. A Rose for Emily

    William Faulkner

  47. The Monkey's Paw

    W. W. Jacobs

  48. In the Penal Colony

    Franz Kafka

  49. The Overcoat

    Nikolai Gogol

  50. The Open Boat

    Stephen Crane

  51. How Much Land Does a Man Need?

    Leo Tolstoy

  52. The Dead

    James Joyce

  53. The Afternoon of a Faun

    Edna Ferber

  54. The Willows

    Algernon Blackwood

  55. Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the Tar Baby

    Joel Chandler Harris

  56. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

    Stephen King

  57. Yvette

    Guy de Maupassant

  58. The Red Room

    H. G. Wells

  59. The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg

    Mark Twain

  60. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

    Joyce Carol Oates

  61. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

    Washington Irving

  62. The Lottery

    Shirley Jackson