Story List

Collection of stories (PDF or online)

 

Forty Two Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial

• Forty stories are available here from the excellent site, Fifty-Two Stories (click here for direct link to PDF)

 

Chris Adrian

• A Tiny Feast

 

Kevin Barry

• Across the Rooftops

 

Ambrose Bierce

• A Horseman in the Sky
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
• Beyond the Wall
• The Boarded Window

 

Ray Bradbury

• A Sound of Thunder

 

Frederick Brown

• The Weapon

 

John Cheever

• The Swimmer

 

Kate Chopin

• The Story of An Hour

 

Arthur C. Clarke

• The Haunted Space Suit (adapted)

 

Roald Dahl

• Man From the South

 

Neil Gaiman

• A Study in Emerald (alternative link: A Study in Emerald)
• Bitter Grounds
• Cinnamon
• Down to the Sunless Sea
• How To Talk To Girls At Parties
• I Cthulhu
• The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds
• The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains

 

Gabriel García Márquez

• A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

 

Brothers Grimm

• The Golden Key

 

Shirley Jackson

• The Lottery

 

Franz Kafka

• A Report to an Academy

 

Jhumpa Lahiri

• A Temporary Matter

 

DH Lawrence

• The Rocking Horse Winner

 

David Marcus

• The Strange Woman

 

Steven Millhauser

• Eisenheim the Illusionist

 

Alice Munro

• Boys and Girls

 

Vladimir Nabokov

• Symbols and Signs

 

Frank O’Connor

• My Oedipus Complex

 

Liam O’Flaherty

• The Sniper

 

Edgar Allen Poe

• The Tell-Tale Heart

 

Saki

• Interlopers

 

Tobias Wolff

• Next Door