The Best American Short Stories

by Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Jack London, O. Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, Herman Melville, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, William Dean Howells, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Louisa May Alcott, Charles W. Chesnutt, William Faulkner, Theodore Dreiser, Charlotte Perkins Gilman