To Build a Fire
Jack London
Young Goodman Brown
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Call of Cthulhu
H. P. Lovecraft
Gimpel the Fool
Isaac Singer
The Red Pony
John Steinbeck
The Sentinel
Arthur C. Clarke
The Most Dangerous Game
Richard Connell
The Rocking-Horse Winner
D. H. Lawrence
Welcome to the Monkey House
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin
The Lady or the Tiger?
Frank Stockton
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
James Thurber
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Ambrose Bierce
The Purloined Letter
Edgar Allan Poe
The Fly
Katherine Mansfield
The Man Without a Country
Edward Everett Hale
A Sound of Thunder
Ray Bradbury
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Lamb to the Slaughter
Roald Dahl
Brokeback Mountain
Annie Proulx
The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
The Last Question
Isaac Asimov
Paul's Case
Willa Cather
Rappaccini's Daughter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rain
William Somerset Maugham
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Stephen Vincent Benet
The Use of Force
William Carlos Williams
The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Ernest Hemingway
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor
The Body
Stephen King
Bartleby the Scrivener
Herman Melville
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
James Thurber
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Bret Harte
The Vampyre
John William Polidori
Oh Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad
M. R. James
Le Horla
Guy de Maupassant
The Pit and the Pendulum
Edgar Allan Poe
The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Mark Twain
A Martian Odyssey
Stanley G. Weinbaum
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
The Luck of Roaring Camp
Bret Harte
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe
A Rose for Emily
William Faulkner
The Monkey's Paw
W. W. Jacobs
In the Penal Colony
Franz Kafka
The Overcoat
Nikolai Gogol
The Open Boat
Stephen Crane
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Leo Tolstoy
The Dead
James Joyce
The Afternoon of a Faun
Edna Ferber
The Willows
Algernon Blackwood
Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the Tar Baby
Joel Chandler Harris
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Stephen King
Yvette
Guy de Maupassant
The Red Room
H. G. Wells
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
Mark Twain
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Joyce Carol Oates
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
The Lottery
Shirley Jackson