Title: Best Short Stories -- Advanced Level
Description: The garden party / Katherine Mansfield
Tell me how long the train's been gone / James Baldwin
My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor
The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter
The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre
The Christian roommates / John Updike
[Young goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne
[The black cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) / Edgar Allan Poe
[A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner
A Christmas memory / Truman Capote
The leader of the people / John Steinbeck
Nightfall / Isaac Asimov
The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen
The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain
The gentleman from Cracow / Isaac B. Singer
The lottery / Shirley Jackson
Subjects: fiction, horror fiction, cats, Children's fiction, short story, first-person narrative, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Reading comprehension, Short stories, Study and teaching (Secondary), Literature, Study and teaching, Satanism, Puritans, catechism, Devil, Boys, tradition, change, death, allegory, nonlinear narrative, gentleman's agreements, recluses, Mentally ill women, English language
Places: New England, Salem Village, Massachusetts, Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County
People: Goodman Brown, Faith Brown, Goody Cloyse, Devil, Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris
Time periods: 1600s, Antebellum era