American Literature

100 Great Short Stories

Okay, I lied. There are so many great short stories that I was unable to trim the list to 100 titles; so here are 120 Great Short Stories for you to enjoy. Click a button to find the best short stories from the authors below.
The Story of An Hour The Cactus Regret A Pair of Silk Stockings Desiree's Baby The Skylight Room A Dark Brown Dog An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge The Monkey's Paw Rikki-Tikki-Tavi The Pit and the Pendulum To Build a Fire Boule de Suif A Boring Story Ex Oblivione Hearts And Hands Hermann The Irascible The Omnibus The Little Match Girl The Man in the Brown Coat The Cat The Terrible Old Man A Vine on a House The Open Window A Newspaper Story The Cats of Ulthar Adrian Upturned Face The Effeminates A Dead Woman's Secret A Respectable Woman On The Day of the Crucifixion Oil of Dog The Dreamer The Student The Unkindest Blow The Use of Force Alexandre Oysters The Vendetta The Looking Glass The Selfish Giant Vanka The Merino Sheep A Duel The Cripple A Defensive Diamond The Child's Story The Yarkand Manner The Diary of a Madman The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh A Baby Tramp Eveline The Log At Sea The Huntsman An Alpine Divorce The Hedgehog What You Want A Holiday Task The Model Millionaire How the Leopard Got His Spots The Colonel's Ideas Found on a Drowned Man Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn The Sphinx Without a Secret Two Friends A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It The Lumber Room Babes in the Jungle The Servant The Unrest-Cure Springtime a la Carte After the Race David Swan How I Edited an Agricultural Paper The Magic Bon Bons Hyacinth The Fly The Princess And The Puma The Nightingale and the Rose Belhomme's Beast Araby The Masque of the Red Death The Last Leaf The Cask of Amontillado The Way to the Dairy A Horseman in the Sky A Father's Confession The Furnished Room Boys Kew Gardens The McWilliamses And The Burglar Alarm Aloha Oe The Shoemaker And The Devil "The Terror" How the Widow Won the Deacon An Angel in Disguise The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County The Glass Dog The Green Door The Doll's House The Necklace The Story of Keesh The Laughing Hippopotamus Confessions Of A Humorist The Beggar The Picture in the House The Man Who Did Not Believe In Luck The Colonel and the Horse-Thief Wakefield The Happy Prince Tennessee's Partner Those Who Wait The Moonlit Road The Toll-House Buried Treasure The Alchemist The Angel of the Odd The Pimienta Pancakes Two Gallants The Fulness Of Life The Outcasts of Poker Flat Miggles A Hunger Artist The Tomb The Ransom of Red Chief Extracts from Adam's Diary What the Bell Saw and Said Gooseberries "His Wife's Deceased Sister" The Star The Egg Mademoiselle Fifi Bliss A New England Nun Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland The Man In A Case The Garden Party The High Constable's Wife Kitty's Class Day My Red Cap A Widow of the Santa Ana Valley His Last Bow Some Words with a Mummy The Yellow Wallpaper Eve's Diary The Lady With The Little Dog The Inconsiderate Waiter Extricating Young Gussie A Descent Into the Maelstrom Blind Man's Holiday The Great Stone Face A Piece of Steak All Gold Canyon Thy Heart's Desire A Jury of Her Peers The Sire de Maletroit's Door "They" Paul's Case