200 Greatest Short Stories

  1. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - by Ambrose Bierce
  2. The Cask of Amontillado - by Edgar Allan Poe
  3. The Gift of The Magi - by O'Henry
  4. A Hunger Artist - by Franz Kafka
  5. For Eseme - with Love and Squalor - by J.D. Salinger
  6. The Dead - by James Joyce
  7. The Nose - by Nikolai Gogol
  8. Alpha Ralpha Boulevard - by Cordwainer Smith
  9. Harrison Bergeron - by Kurt Vonnegut
10. In the Penal Colony - by Franz Kafka
11. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - by Washington Irving
12. The Swimmer - by John Cheever
13. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - by Robert Louis Stevenson
14. The Imp of The Perverse - by Edgar Allan Poe
15. The Richest Man in Babylon - by George S. Clason
16. Everthing That Rises Must Converge - by Flannery O'Connor
17. A Child's Christmas in Wales - by Dylan Thomas
18. Goodbye, My Brother - by John Cheever
19. The Tell-Tale Heart - by Edgar Allan Poe
20. The Overcoat - by Nikolai Gogol
21. Venus Smiles - by J.G. Ballard
22. Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes - by Robert Louis Stevenson
23. The Lottery - by Shirley Jackson
24. The Private History of a Campaign That Failed - by Mark Twain
25. The Most Dangerous Game - by Richard Connell
26. Heat - by Joyce Carol Oates
27. The Aleph - by Jorge Luis Borges
28. The Murder - by John Steinbeck
29. A & P - by John Updike
30. A Perfect Day for Bananafish - by J.D. Salinger
31. Clattery Teeth - by Stephen King
32. The Open Boat - by Stephen Crane
33. The Eclipse - by James Fenimore Cooper
34. The Lady with the Dog - by Anton Chekhov
35. Was it Heaven? Or Hell? - by Mark Twain
36. To Build a Fire - by Jack London
37. A Haunted House - by Virginia Woolf
38. The Beast in the Jungle - by Henry James
39. Rain - by W Somerset Maugham
40. The Killers - by Ernest Hemingway
41. Dry September - by William Faulkner
42. A Passion in the Desert - by Honore de Balzac
43. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - by Mark Twain
44. The Sentinel - by Arthur C Clarke
45. The Girl With The Blackened Eye - by Joyce Carol Oates
46. The Horla - by Guy de Maupassant
47. The Lightning-Rod Man - by Herman Melville
48. The Rocking-Horse Winner - by D H Lawrence
49. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters - by J.D. Salinger
50. The Fall of The House of Usher - by Edgar Allan Poe
51. Going to Meet the Man - by James Baldwin
52. The Boarded Window - by Ambrose Bierce
53. Heartache - by Hans Christian Andersen
54. The Gernsback Continuum - by William Gibson
55. Defender of the Faith - by Philip Roth
56. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place - by Ernest Hemingway
57. The Death of Ivan Ilych - by Leo Tolstoy
58. The Bear - by William Faulkner
59. The Bet - by Anton Chekhov
60. Nuns at Luncheon - by Aldous Huxley
61. Gentleman Junkie - by Harlan Ellison
62. A Country Doctor - by Franz Kafka
63. The Griffin and the Minor Canon - by Frank Stockton
64. Hills Like White Elephants - by Ernest Hemingway
65. The Purloined Letter - by Edgar Allan Poe
66. The Shunned House - by H.P. Lovecraft
67. The Three Linden Trees - by Hermann Hesse
68. A Good Man is Hard to Find - by Flannery O'Connor
69. A Delicate Sound of Thunder - by Ray Bradbury
70. The Outcasts of Poker Flats - by Bret Harte
71. A Telephone Call - by Dorothy Parker
72. The National Pastime - by John Cheever
73. Scarlett Stockings - by Louisa May Alcott
74. The Destructors - by Graham Greene
75. On The Gull's Road - by Willa Cather
76. Bartleby the Scrivener - by Herman Melville
77. The Downfall of Fascism in Black Ankle County - by Joseph Mitchell
78. The Monkey's Paw - by W.W. Jacobs
79. By the Waters of Babylon - by Stephen Vincent Benét
80. Boys! Grow Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar - by Ray Bradbury
81. Pigeon Feathers - by John Updike
82. The Shadow Over Innsmouth - by H.P. Lovecraft
83. Regret - by Kate Chopin
84. The Poor Relation's Story - by Charles Dickens
85. Under The Lion's Paw - by Hamlin Garland
86. The Interloper's - by Saki
87. A Dark Brown Dog - by Stephen Crane
88. Call of Cthulu - by H. P. Lovecraft
89. The Blind Man - by Guy de Maupassant
90. The Last Word - by Graham Greene
91. Daniel White for the Greater Good - by Harlan Ellison
92. The Knife of The Times - by William Carlos Williams
93. The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton - by Charles Dickens
94. Death In The Woods - by Sherwood Anderson
95. The Country Husband - by John Cheever
96. The Outstation - by W Somerset Maugham
97. The Crystal Egg - by H.G. Wells
98. The Birthmark - by Nathaniel Hawthorne
99. Ms. Found in a Bottle - by Edgar Allan Poe
100. Revenge of The Lawn - by Richard Brautigan

101. The Phantom Rickshaw - by Rudyard Kipling
102. Dolan's Cadillac - by Stephen King
103. Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber - by Ernest Hemingway
104. Interpretation of a Dream - by John Collier
105. Welcome To The Monkey House - by Kurt Vonnegut
106. Leiningen versus the Ants - by Carl Stephenson
107. Mr F is Mr F - by J.G. Ballard
108. Guest's of the Nation - by Frank O'Connor
109. Young Goodman Brown - by Nathaniel Hawthorne
110. Tonio Kroger - by Thomas Mann
111. The Enormous Radio - by John Cheever
112. The Vigilante - by John Steinbeck
113. Evening Primrose - by John Collier
114. The Bishop - by Anton Chekhov
115. A Dead Issue - by Charles M. Flandrau
116. The Door - by E. B White
117. There Was a Young Lady of Perth - by William Saroyan
118. The Laughing Man - by J.D. Salinger
119. Barn Burning - by William Faulkner
120. Free With This Box - by Harlan Ellison
121. The Story of an Hour - by Kate Chopin
122. How The Leopard Got His Spots - by Rudyard Kipling
123. The Masque of the Red Death - by Edgar Allan Poe
124. Silent Snow, Secret Snow - by Conrad Aiken
125. Footprints in the Jungle - by W Somerset Maugham
126. Beware of The Dog - by Roald Dahl
127. Two Views of The Mississippi - by Mark Twain
128. Spotted Horses - by William Faulkner
129. In Our Time - by Ernest Hemingway
130. The Adventures of The German Student - by Washington Irving
131. Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut - by J D Salinger
132. The Tillotson Banquet - by Aldous Huxley
133. The Chaser - by John Collier
134. Father is Firm with his Ailments - by Clarence Day
135. Johnny Mnemonic - by William Gibson
136. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - by Rudyard Kipling
137. The Minister's Black Veil - by Nathaniel Hawthorne
138. Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman - by Finley Peter Dunne
139. The Baron of Grogzwig - by Charles Dickens
140. That Evening Sun - by William Faulkner
141. Soldier's of The Republic - by Dorothy Parker
142. The Use of Force - by William Carlos Williams
143. Old Folks Christmas - by Ring W Lardner
144. Mr Preble Gets Rid of His Wife - by James Thurber
145. The Damned Thing - by Ambrose Bierce
146. The Death of Shorty - by Richard P Bissell
147. The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It - by John Collier
148. The Dandelion Girl - by Robert F Young
149. The Dilettante - by Edith Wharton
150. The Night of Delicate Terrors - by Harlan Ellison
151. My Kinsman, Major Molineux - by Nathaniel Hawthorne
152. All The King's Horses - by Kurt Vonnegut
153. Three Girls - by Joyce Carol Oates
154. Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking - by O'Henry
155. The Five-Forty-Eight - by John Cheever
156. The Archimandrite's Niece - by James Reid Parker
157. EPICAC - by Kurt Vonnegut
158. A Jury of Her Peers - by Susan Glaspell
159. The Yellow Wallpaper - by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
160. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - by Raymond Carver
161. The Ambitious Guest - by Nathaniel Hawthorne
162. The Old People - by William Faulkner
163. The Lucid Eye in Silver Town - by John Updike
164. Lather and Nothing Else - by Hernando Tellez
165. The Hour of Letdown - by E.B. White
166. The Rumor - by Erskine Caldwell
167. Survivor Type - by Stephen King
168. The Vicar of Azay-le-rideau - by Honore de Balzac
169. Deer In The Works - by Kurt Vonnegut
170. The Body Snatcher - by Robert Louis Stevenson
171. Grandma and The Hindu Monk - by Seymour Freedgood
172. Masters of Arts - by O'Henry
173. Hate - by Arthur C Clarke
174. The First Christmas Tree - by Henry Van Dyke
175. 2BR02B - by Kurt Vonnegut
176. The Red Headed League - by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
177. The New Villa - by Anton Chekhov
178. Madame Zilensky and the King of England - by Carson McCullers
179. New Rose Hotel - by William Gibson
180. The Red Room - by H.G. Wells
181. The Diamond As Big As The Ritz - by F Scott Fitzgerald
182. The Five Orange Pips - by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
183. The Concentration City - by J.G. Ballard
184. Transience - by Arthur C Clarke
185. The End of The Party - by Graham Greene
186. Teddy - by J.D. Salinger
187. The Vertical Fields - by Fielding Dawson
188. A Mother's Tale - by James Agee
189. Transients in Arcadia - by O'Henry
190. The French Scarecrow - by William Maxwell
191. Shooting An Elephant - by George Orwell
192. Hunters in the Snow - by Tobias Wolff
193. The Street That Got Mislaid - by Patrick Waddington
194. Eva Is Inside Her Cat - by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
195. A Day In The Country - by Anton Chekhov
196. The Girls In Their Summer Dresses - by Irwin Shaw
197. What Was It ? - by Fitz-James O'Brien
198. You Know They've Got a Helluva Band - by Stephen King
199. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams - by Sylvia Plath
200. The Big Space F*** - by Kurt Vonnegut