The Great American Short Story Collection: 40 Outstanding Tales by American Writers

A thoroughly engaging collection of great classic tales by the very best of American authors.

1. From Beyond by H. P. Lovecraft

2. The Mysterious Card and the Card Unveiled by Cleveland Moffett

3. Pigs is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler

4. The Club of One-Eyed Men by Arthur Somers Roche

5. Afterward by Edith Wharton

6. The Furnished Room by O. Henry

7. A Descent into the Maelström by Edgar Allan Poe

8. Regret by Kate Chopin

9. The Terrible Old Man by H. P. Lovecraft

10. The Dumb Man by Sherwood Anderson

11. A Desperate Adventure by Max Adeler

12. A Bottomless Grave by Ambrose Bierce

13. Cannibalism in the Cars by Mark Twain

14. Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe by Nathaniel Hawthorne

15. The Marionettes by O. Henry

16. The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

17. The Storm by Kate Chopin

18. The Eyes by Edith Wharton

19. Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe

20. Imprisoned with the Pharaohs by Harry Houdini and H. P. Lovecraft

21. The One Million Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain

22. A Lucky Number by S. B. Hale

23. Lost in a Pyramid by Louisa M. Alcott

24. The Problem of the Five Marks by Melville Davisson Post

25. William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe

26. The Venturers by O. Henry

27. The Cats of Ulthar by H. P. Lovecraft

28. Submarine by Stella Benson

29. The Thousand and Second Tale of Sheherazade by Edgar Allan Poe

30. The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

... and ten more wonderful stories.