Short Story List

1. The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe 2. The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe 3. The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe 4. The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe 5. The Gold-Bug Edgar Allan Poe 6. The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe 7. First Confession Frank Stockton 8. A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud Carson McCullers 9. Sucker Carson McCullers 10. The Country Guy De Maupassant 11. The Garden Party Katherine Mansfield 12. The Hand Guy De Maupassant 13. The Necklace Guy De Maupassant 14. The Bee-Man of Orn Frank Stockton 15. The Night the Ghost Got In James Thurber 16. Conversation About Christmas Dylan Thomas 17. Old Pipes and the Dryad Frank Stockton 18. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty James Thurber 19. God Sees the Truth, But Waits Leo Tolstoy 20. Story Without An End Mark Twain 21. A Worn Path Eudora Welty 22. Let Me Fall Before I Fly Barbara Wensba 23. The Rocking-Horse Winner D. H. Lawrence 24. The Lottery Shirley Jackson 25. Charles Shirley Jackson 26. Thank You, M’am Langston Hughes 27. The Ransom of Red Chief O. Henry 28. Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne 29. Jury of Her Peers Susan Glaspell 30. The Lagoon Joseph Conrad 31. The Most Dangerous Game Richard Connell 32. Miriam Truman Capote 33. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce 34. Raymond’s Run Toni Cade Bambara 35. He Swung and He Missed Nelson Algren 36. The Gift of the Magi O.Henry