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Category: Short Stories (Sorted by Author's last name)

The Devil and Daniel Webster (1936) - Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943)    (Grade:A)

Request for a More Complete Obituary (story) (2024) - Viken Berberian (1967-)    (Grade:B+)

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (story) (1890) - Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (6/24/1842 -1914?)    (Grade:B)

Civil War Stories () - Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (6/24/1842 -1914?)    (Grade:B)

The Pedestrian (1951) - Ray Bradbury (08/22/1920 -06/05/2012)    (Grade:B+)

Who Goes There? (short story) (1938) - John W. Capbell (6/08/1910-7/11/1971)    (Grade:B)

Cathedral (1981) - Raymond Carver (05/25/1938 -08/02/1988)    (Grade:A)

The Stories of John Cheever (1975) - John Cheever (5/27/1912 -6/18/1982)    (Grade:C+)

The Swimmer (1964) - John Cheever (5/27/1912 -6/18/1982)    (Grade:B-)

"He and She" and Other Stories 1880-82 : The Complete Short Stories of Anton Chekhov (Vol 1) (2000) - Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)    (Grade:C)

Fancies and Goodnights (1951) - John Collier (1901-1980)    (Grade:B+)

The Most Dangerous Game (1924) - Richard Connell (10/17/1893 -11/22/1949)    (Grade:A+)

A Reputation (short story) (1922) - Richard Connell (10/17/1893 -11/22/1949)    (Grade:B)

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (1966) - Phillip K. Dick (12/26/1928 -3/02/1982)    (Grade:A)

The Work of Evil (story) (1963) - William Croft Dickinson (8/28/1897-5/22/1963)    (Grade:B)

Selected Stories (1988) - Andre Dubus (1936-1999)    (Grade:A)

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (1999) - Nathan Englander (-)    (Grade:C)

The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff (2010) - Joseph Epstein (01/09/1937 -)    (Grade:A)

Evo Havel (story) (2020) - Brian Evenson (8/12/1966 -) (Grade:A+)

A Rose for Emily (story) (1930) - William Faulkner (09/25/1897 -07/06/1962) (Grade:B+)

A Bush League Hero (story) (1911 (?)) - Edna Ferber (8/15/1885-4/16/1968)    (Grade:A+)

Bernice Bobs Her Hair (story) (1920) - F. Scott Fitzgerald (9/24/1896 -12/21/1940)    (Grade:B+)

The Snow Goose (1941) - Paul Gallico (07/26/1897 -07/15/1976)    (Grade:A)

The Destructors (1954) - Graham Greene (10/02/1904 -4/03/1991)    (Grade:A)

The Birthmark (1844) - Nathaniel Hawthorne (7/04/1804 -5/19/1864)    (Grade:A)

Earth's Holocaust (1844) - Nathaniel Hawthorne (7/04/1804 -5/19/1864) (Grade:A+)

The Monkey's Paw (1902) - W. W. Jacobs (9/08/1863-9/01/1943) (Grade:B+)

The Thrill of the Grass (story) (1984) - W. P. Kinsella (5/25/1935 -9/16/2026) (Grade:A+)

The Man Who Would Be King (1888) - Rudyard Kipling (12/30/1865 -1/18/1936)    (Grade:A+)

Train (2012) - Alice Munro (7/10/1931 -5/13/2024)    (Grade:A)

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (1966) - Joyce Carol Oates (6/16/1938 -)    (Grade:B+)

The Shawl (1989) - Cynthia Ozick (1928 -)    (Grade:B)

Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934) - William Saroyan (-08/31/1908)    (Grade:A+)

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (1937) - Delmore Schwartz (12/08/1913 -07/11/1966)    (Grade:D)

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959) - Alan Sillitoe (1928-)    (Grade:C)

Leiningen Versus the Ants (story) (1938) - Carl Stephenson (11/03/1893-12/31/1983)    (Grade:B)

The Bottle Imp (story) (1891) - Robert Louis Stevenson (11/13/1850 -12/03/1894)    (Grade:A)

The Middle of the Night (2003) - Daniel Stolar (-)    (Grade:B-)

A Meeting in Middle-Age (1964) - William Trevor (5/24/1928-11/20/2016) (Grade:A+)