Fifty of the world's greatest classic short stories:

• The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
• The One Million Pound Banknote by Mark Twain
• The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling
• The Fly by Katherine Mansfield
• The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
• My Favorite Murder by Ambrose Bierce
• The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
• One Thousand Dollars by O. Henry
• Regret by Kate Chopin
• The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
• The Mezzotint by M. R. James
• The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
• The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley
• A Curious Dream by Mark Twain
• The Doll’s House by Katherine Mansfield
• The Inconsiderate Waiter by J. M. Barrie
• The Sphinx without a Secret by Oscar Wilde
• The Suicide Club by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy
• The Dead by James Joyce
• The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs
• Memoirs of a Yellow Dog by O. Henry
• Cannibalism in the Cars by Mark Twain
• The Finest Story in the World by Rudyard Kipling
• The Belated Russian Passport by Mark Twain
• A Circular Tour by W. W. Jacobs
• The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe
• American Sir! by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
• They by Rudyard Kipling
• The Telltale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
• The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde
• A Distant Relative by W. W. Jacobs
• The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce
• The Background by Saki
• The Black Poodle by F. Anstey
• The Open Window by Saki
• A Descent into the Maelström by Edgar Allan Poe
• A Bottomless Grave by Ambrose Bierce
• A Safety Match by W. W. Jacobs
• The She-Wolf by Saki
• Oil of Dog by Ambrose Bierce
• Frau Brechenmacher attends a Wedding by Katherine Mansfield
• The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm by Mark Twain
• Curried Cow by Ambrose Bierce
• Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Changeling by W. W. Jacobs