Short Stories
Over 2,000 short stories can be found in The Short Story Library at American Literature, including many of the greatest short stories ever written.
Twenty Great American Short Stories was the first collection published at this site, but other short story collections have also been assembled for your convenience.
Twenty Great American Short Stories
- The Lottery - by Shirley Jackson
- The Monkey's Paw - by W.W. Jacobs
- Young Goodman Brown - by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- To Build a Fire - by Jack London
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - by Washington Irving
- Regret - by Kate Chopin
- The Cask of Almontilado - by Edgar Allen Poe
- The Private History of a Campaign That Failed - by Mark Twain
- An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge - by Amrbose Bierce
- My Kinsman, Major Molineux - by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Tell Tale Heart - by Edgar Allen Poe
- Scarlet Stockings - by Louisa May Alcott
- Bartleby the Scrivner - by Herman Melville
- The Purloined Letter - by Edgard Allen Poe
- The Eclipse - by James Fenimore Cooper
- A Dark Brown Dog - by Stephen Crane
- The Imp of the Perverse - by Edgar Allen Poe
- On the Gull's Road - by Willa Cather
- The Minister's Black Veil - by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Split Cherry Tree - by Jesse Stuart
