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 160 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 The Brave Tin Soldier A Pair of Silk Stockings The Gift of the Magi Desiree's Baby The Skylight Room A Dark Brown Dog An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge The Monkey's Paw A New England Nun Rikki-Tikki-Tavi The Pit and the Pendulum To Build a Fire Odour of Chrysanthemums A Jury of Her Peers The Call of Cthulhu Boule de Suif The Plane Tree The Ass And The Load Of Salt A Boring Story Ex Oblivione Fat And Thin Hearts And Hands Hermann The Irascible The Death Of A Government Clerk 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 The Effeminates Upturned Face A Dead Woman's Secret A Chameleon A Respectable Woman On The Day of the Crucifixion Oil of Dog The Dreamer The Student The Unkindest Blow Alexandre Oysters The Marshal's Widow The Vendetta A Daughter Of Albion The Looking Glass The Selfish Giant Vanka The Merino Sheep A Duel The Cripple A Defensive Diamond The Child's Story Esme The Yarkand Manner The Diary of a Madman Sredni Vashtar The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh A Baby Tramp Eveline The Log The Huntsman An Alpine Divorce The Hedgehog A Defenseless Creature What You Want A Holiday Task The Model Millionaire How the Leopard Got His Spots The Fish The Colonel's Ideas Found on a Drowned Man The Tell-Tale Heart 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 According to Their Lights How I Edited an Agricultural Paper The Magic Bon Bons Hyacinth The Fly The Princess And The Puma The Striding Place The Nightingale and the Rose Araby Belhomme's Beast The Masque of the Red Death A Telephone Call Killed at Resaca The Last Leaf The Cask of Amontillado Gabriel-Ernest The Way to the Dairy A Father's Confession A Horseman in the Sky The Furnished Room Boys Kew Gardens The McWilliamses And The Burglar Alarm Aloha Oe The Shoemaker And The Devil "The Terror" The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County How the Widow Won the Deacon An Angel in Disguise The Glass Dog The Green Door The Christmas Tree and the Wedding The Necklace The Tinder-Box The Doll's House Christmas Every Day The Last Fight In The Coliseum The Story of Keesh The Laughing Hippopotamus Confessions Of A Humorist The Beggar The Picture in the House Pigs Is Pigs The Man Who Did Not Believe In Luck One Autumn Night The Colonel and the Horse-Thief Wakefield The Happy Prince Keeping Watch Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp Tennessee's Partner Those Who Wait The Moonlit Road Hop-Frog The Toll-House Buried Treasure The Alchemist The Angel of the Odd The Pimienta Pancakes A Report to an Academy Two Gallants The Old Man of the Sea The Fullness Of Life The Outcasts of Poker Flat The Olive A Hunger Artist Miggles The Tomb The Ransom of Red Chief