A selection of great American short stories from some of the greatest writers.

Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
What stumped the bluejays / Mark Twain --
To build a fire / Jack London --
A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell --
The storm / Jesse Stuart --
The pioneer hep-cat / John O'Hara --
The furnished room / O. Henry --
I can't breathe / Ring Lardner --
The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway --
A New England Nun / Mary E. Wilkins --
The Chrysanthemum / John Steinbeck --
The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe --
The man who saw the flood / Richard Wright --
Barn burning / William Faulkner --
The yellow wall paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --
Hook / Walter Van Tilburg Clark --
The key / Eudora Welty --
The shore line at sunset / Ray Bradbury --
The idyl of Miss Sarah Brown / Damon Runyon --
Coroner's inquest / Marc Connelly --
Roman fever / Edith Wharton --
The outcasts of poker flat / Bret Harte --
The last gas station / Shirley Ann Grau --
The fifty-first dragon / Heywood Broun --
Sir Edmund Orme / Henry Jame --
The daemon lover / Shirley Jackson --
The blue hotel / Stephen Crane --
You'll never know, dear, how much i love you / John Updike --
The beauty / Pearl S. Buck --
The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benet --
Winter night / Kay Boyle --
Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville --
Christmas is a sad season for the poor / John Cheever --
The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce --
Jug of silver / Truman Capote --
Night club / Katharine Brush --
The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser --
The most dangerous game / Richard Connell --
The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud --
If Grant had been drinking at Appomattox / James Thurber --
The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving --
The music of Erich Zann / H.P. Lovecraft --
Enoch and the gorilla / Flannery O'Connor --
The untold lie / Sherwood Anderson --
Horse thief / Erskine Caldwell --
The haunted boy / Carson McCullers --
The valiant woman / J.F. Powers --
The minister's wife / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The rockpile / James Baldwin --
The enchanted bluff / Willa Cather --
O how she laughed / Conrad Aiken.