Short Stories

This is a small collection of short stories that you may wish to read a few of. In the end I aim to have just about all of them linked to the stories so that you can read them online. I read a lot of these when I was doing an English unit at school, Short Story.

Edgar Allan Poe

The Masque of the Red Death

The Telltale Heart

The Cask of Amontillado

The Black Cat

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Facts in the Case of M Valdermer

Hop Frog

The Fall of the House of Usher

Sherwood Anderson

I'm a Fool

Gina Berriault

The Stone Boy

Ray Bradbury

There will come Soft Rains

Erskine Caldwell

Warm River

Anton Chekov

Ninochka

Robert Drewe

Baby Oil

The Silver Medallist

F Scott Fitzgerald

The Cut-Glass Bowl

May Day

James Joyce

The Boarding House

Daniel Keyes

Flowers for Algernon

Ring Lardner

I Can't Breath

Haircut

Guy De Maupassant

Madamoiselle Pearl

The Necklace

Katherine Mansfield

The Lady's Maid

W Somerset Maugham

Mr Know-all

Vance Palmer

Josie

Allan Sillitoe

On Saturday Afternoon

Jean Stafford

Bad Characters