Great American Short Stories

Washington Irving -- The legend of sleepy hollow -- The spectre bridegroom -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini's Daughter Edgar Allan Poe -- The murders in the Rue Morgue William Wilson The pit and the pendulum The cask of Amontillado Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Captain Kidd's money -- Herman Melville -- Benito Cereno -- The lightning-rod man -- Fitz-James O'Brien -- The diamond lens -- Mark Twain -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The stolen white elephant -- The man who corrupted Hadleyburg -- Bret Harte -- The luck of roaring camp -- Tennessee's partner -- Ambrose Bierce -- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge A horseman in the sky -- Henry James -- The turn of the screw -- The jolly corner -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- The courting of Sister Wisby -- The Hiltons' holiday -- O. Henry -- The love-philtre of Ikey Schoenstein -- One dollar's worth -- Art and the bronco -- The furnished room -- Calloway's code -- Edith Wharton -- The Rembrandt -- The recovery -- Stephen Crane -- Maggie -- The bride comes to yellow sky -- Willa Cather -- The clemency of the court -- Lou, the prophet -- A night at Greenway Court -- Jack London -- To the man on trail -- The son of the wolf -- The wife of a king -- William Faulkner -- That Evening Sun Ernest Hemingway -- The killers -- John Steinbeck -- The leader of the people -- Flannery O'Connor -- A late encounter with the enemy.