Title: Great Short Stories
First published: 1950
Description: [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / Edgar Allan Poe
[Rappaccini's daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte
Open boat / Stephen Crane
All-gold canon / Jack London
Furnished room / O. Henry
Lost phoebe / Theodore Dreiser
Neighbor rosicky / Willa Cather
Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson
Now I lay me / Ernest Hemingway
By the waters of Babylon / Stephen Vincent Benet
Leader of the people / John Steinbeck
Bear / William Faulkner
Jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter
Summer of the beautiful white horse / William Saroyan
Secret sharer / Joseph Conrad
Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney / Rudyard Kipling
[Red-headed league](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262476W) / A. Conan Doyle
Storyteller / Saki (H. H. Munro)
Timber / John Galsworthy
Man who could work miracles / H. G. Wells
Dill pickle / Katherine Mansfield
Lotus-eater / W. Somerset Maugham
Death of the Dauphin / Alphonse Daudet
Inn / Guy de Maupassant
Beggar / Anton Chekov
Invisible collection / Stefan Zweig
Laugh in the desert / Pedro Prado
Subjects: banks, detective fiction, Encyclopædia Britannica, pawnbrokers, police inspectors, red hair, Mystery and detective stories, Children's fiction, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Fiction, short story, Short stories, American Horror tales, American literature, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder
Places: London, Baker Street, Padua, India, Italy, University of Padua
People: Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Jabez Wilson, Vincent Spaulding, Duncan Ross, Police Inspector Jones, Mr. Merryweather, John Clay, Archie, Giacomo Rappaccini, Giovanni Guasconti, Beatrice Rappaccini
Time periods: 1890
LC classification: PZ1.S34 Gr