Anderson | Bierce | Bradbury | Cather | Chopin | Hemingway
Henry | Oates | O'Connor | Poe | Tan | Wharton

Sherwood Anderson

Death in the Woods (Online)

Death in the Woods chronicles the life and death of a poor and downtrodden farm woman.

The Egg (Online)

The Egg tells the story of a childhood memory that has in a profound way shaped its narrator’s moral outlook.

Hands (Online, Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson)

“Hands” is about a character estranged from society, forced to live a life of quiet desperation outside the circle of the human community.

I'm a Fool (Fifty Best American Short Stories, ed. by Foley)

This story is about a nineteen-year-old boy whose life revolves around his job as a swipe at a local racetrack.

Sophistication (Great Short Stories of the World)

In this story George Willard, encounters, one by one, the various incomplete and lonely people of the town whom are drawn to him to tell their stories.

The Strength of God (The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, ed. by Oates, Winesburg, Ohio)

To read the 15 short stories included in collection The Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories, click here.

Ambrose Bierce

Beyond the Wall

A Diagnosis of Death (Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown, ed. by Kaye)*

An Inhabitant of Carcosa (The Fantasy Hall of Fame, compiled by Silverberg and Greenberg

Killed at Resaca

The Man and the Snake (Online at LitFinder , or Great Short Stories of the World)*

A Horseman in the Sky (Online or Great American Short Stories)

An Occurrance at Owl Creek Bridge (Online or Great American Short Stories)

This grim tale of a Southern collaborator during the Civil War provides both a gripping account of a doomed man’s thoughts while awaiting execution and a tantalizing, suspenseful example of controlled prose narrative.

One of the Missing (Online)

Ray Bradbury

Homecoming (The Fantasy Hall of Fame, compiled by Silverberg and Greenberg)

Mars Is Heaven! (The Science FictionHall of Fame, ed. by Silverberg and Greenberg)

The Other Foot (Fifty Best American Short Stories, ed. by Foley)

The Poems (Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown, ed. by Kaye)

There Will Come Soft Rains (The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, ed. by Oates)

This story centers on the only house left standing after a nuclear blast has destroyed the remainder of Allendale, California, in the year 2026.

A Sound of Thunder (Science Fiction, ed. by Brodkin and Pearson)*

"The Veldt (Masters' Choice ed. by Janifer)

The Veldt" is a gruesome fable about the destructive consequences of "sparing the rod and spoiling the child."

Zero Hour (Science Fiction, ed. by Brodkin and Pearson)

Willa Cather

The Affair at Grover Station (Victorian Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers )

The Bohemian Girl (Cather's Collected Short Fiction, ed. by Bennett), (Great Short Works of Willa Cather, ed. by Miller)

The Clemency of the Court (Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown, ed. by Kaye, or Cather's Collected Short Fiction, ed. by Bennett, or Great American Short Stories)

A Death in the Desert (Online or Cather's Collected Short Fiction, ed. by Bennett, or The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, ed. by Oates)

*Double Birthday (Fifty Best American Short Stories, ed. by Foley)*

*Lou, the Prophet (Great American Short Stories), (Cather's Collected Short Fiction, ed. by Bennett)*

The Marriage of Phaedra (Online)

Neighbour Rosicky (Great Western Short Stories, ed. by Taylor

*A Night at Greenway Court (Cather's Collected Short Fiction, ed. by Bennett), (Great American Short Stories)

Paul's Case (Online, or Great Short Works of Willa Cather, ed. by Miller, or The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Short Stories, ed. by Craig)

A Wagner Matinee (Online, or Great Short Stories of the World, Great Short Works of Willa Cather)

**To find more short stories by Willa Cather online, click here.

Kate Chopin

Beyond the Bayou (Online)

The Father of Deseree's Baby (Online)

The Kiss (Online)*

A Pair of Silk Stockings (Online)

A Respectable Woman (Online)

The Storm (The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin, ed. by Solomon), (The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, ed. by Oates)

The Story of an Hour (Online, Bibliomania.com)

Ernest Hemingway

The Battler (In Our Time)

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, ed. by Oates) (The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories) (Short Fiction of the Masters, ed. by Hamalaina and Karl)

A Day's Wait (The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories)

The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife (In Our Time)

Fathers and Sons (The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories)

Fifty Grand (The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories)

The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio (The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories)

In Another Country (The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories)

Indian Camp (In Our Time)

The Killers (Great American Short Stories) (The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories)

My Old Man (Fifty Best American Short Stores, ed. by Foley)

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories)

The Three Day Blow (In Our Time)

O. Henry

Art and the Bronco (Great American Short Stories)

Calloway's Code (Online, or Great American Short Stories)

The Furnished Room (Great American Short Stories)

The Gift of the Magi (Online)

The Last Leaf (Online)

The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein (Great American Short Stories)

One Dollar's Worth (Great American Short Stories)

The Princess and the Puma (Online)

The Ransom of Red Chief (Online)

A Retrieved Reformation (A Treasury of American Mystery Stories, ed. by McSherry, Waugh, and Greenberg)

Supply and Demand (Online, or Great Short Stories of the World)

Click this link to 217 short stories by O. Henry.

Joyce Carol Oates

Heat (The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, ed. by Oates)

The Girl with the Blackened Eye (Prize Stories 2001: The O. Henry Awards, ed. by Dark)

The Others (Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown, ed. by Kaye)

Scenes of Passion and Despair (The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Short Stories, ed. by Craig)

Upon the Sweeping Flood (Fifty Best American Short Stores, ed. by Foley) (The Granata Book of the American Short Story, ed. by Ford)

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (Online)

Flannery O'Conner

A Circle in the Fire (Fifty Best American Short Stories, ed. by Foley)

A Good Man Is Hard to Find (You've Got to Read This, ed. by Hansen adn Shepard)

Good Country People (The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Short Stories, ed. by Craig)

Good Country People (The Granata Book of the American Short Story, ed. by Ford)

A Late Encounter with the Enemy (The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, ed. by Oates)

A Late Encounter with the Enemy (Great American Short Stories)

Edgar Allan Poe

The Cask of Amontillado (Online or Horror Stories, chosen by Price)

The Fall or the House of Usher (Online or Complete Tales of Edgar Allen Poe, or Tales of Mystery and Imagination)

The Gold-Bug (Online or A Treasury of American Mystery Stories, ed. by McSherry, Waugh, and Greenberg)

Masque of the Red Death (Online or The Fantasy Hall of Fame, compiled by Silverberg and Greenberg)

Murders in the Rue Morgue (Online or Tales of Mystery and Imagination)

The Pit & the Pendulum (Online or Tales of Mystery and Imagination)

The Tell Tale Heart (Online, or Great Short Stories of the World), (The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, ed. by Oates)

Click this link to 67 short stories by Edgar Allen Poe.

Amy Tan

Two Kinds (The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, ed. by Oates)

Pair of Tickets (The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Short Stories, ed. by Craig)

The Joy Luck Club (The Granata Book of the American Short Story, ed. by Ford)

Edith Wharton

Afterword (Online, or The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Short Stories, ed. by Craig or Modern Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers, ed. by Dalby)

A Journey (The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, ed. by Oates)

The Rembrandt (Online or Great American Short Stories)

The Recovery (Online or Great American Short Stories)

**To find 41 short stories by Edith Wharton.

**Story Collections by Wharton include Certain People, Crucial Instances, The Descent of Man, The Greater Inclination, Here & Beyond, Tales of Ghosts & Men, Xinger & the Other, The World Over)