The Minority Report

Philip K. Dick

The Birds

Daphne du Maurier

There Will Come Soft Rains (Tale Blazers)

Ray Bradbury

A Perfect Day for Bananafish

J.D. Salinger

The Lottery and Other Stories

Shirley Jackson

The Gilded Six-Bits

Zora Neale Hurston

The Most Dangerous Game

Richard Connell

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Ambrose Bierce

Bartleby the Scrivener

Herman Melville

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving

Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving

Gates Taller Than Trees: A Short Story (The Years of Asking)

Mason Carter

Lamb to the Slaughter

Roald Dahl

The Secret Sharer

Joseph Conrad

A Good Man is Hard to Find

Flannery O'Connor

The Story of an Hour

Kate Chopin

The Gift of the Magi

O. Henry

The Garden Party

Katherine Mansfield

The Nightingale and the Rose

Oscar Wilde

The Monkey's Paw

W.W. Jacobs

The Tell-Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe

The Necklace

Guy de Maupassant

The Piece of String

Guy de Maupassant

Two Friends (Classic Short Stories)

Guy de Maupassant

A Country Doctor

Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

Dream of the Red Chamber

Cao Xueqin

The Last Question

Isaac Asimov

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Ursula K. Le Guin