Edgar Allan Poe

O. Henry

Ambrose Bierce

Fifty of the world's greatest classic short stories:

 The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
 The One Million Pound Banknote by Mark Twain
 The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling
 The Fly by Katherine Mansfield
 The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
 My Favorite Murder by Ambrose Bierce
 The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
 One Thousand Dollars by O. Henry
 Regret by Kate Chopin
 The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
 The Mezzotint by M. R. James
 The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
 The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
 The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley
 A Curious Dream by Mark Twain
 The Doll's House by Katherine Mansfield
 The Inconsiderate Waiter by J.M. Barrie
 The Sphinx without a Secret by Oscar Wilde
 The Suicide Club by Robert Louis Stevenson
 The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy
 The Dead by James Joyce
 The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
 Memoirs of a Yellow Dog by O. Henry
 Cannibalism in the Cars by Mark Twain
 The Finest Story in the World by Rudyard Kipling
 The Belated Russian Passport by Mark Twain
 A Circular Tour by W.W. Jacobs
 The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe
 American Sir! by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
 They by Rudyard Kipling
 The Telltale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
 The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
 The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
 The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde
 A Distant Relative by W.W. Jacobs
 The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
 The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce
 The Background by Saki
 The Black Poodle by F. Anstey
 The Open Window by Saki
 A Descent into the Maelström by Edgar Allan Poe
 A Bottomless Grave by Ambrose Bierce
 A Safety Match by W.W. Jacobs
 The She-Wolf by Saki
 Oil of Dog by Ambrose Bierce
 Frau Brechenmacher attends a Wedding by Katherine Mansfield
 The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm by Mark Twain
 Curried Cow by Ambrose Bierce
 Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe
 The Changeling by W.W. Jacobs