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 Famous Short Stories and Authors

Most people can recall the author of a good book...but do you remember who wrote the short story that stayed with you?
 
 Short Story/Novella Author
33.
The Lottery
 
 
AnswerShirley Jackson
32.
The Gift of the Magi
 
 
AnswerO. Henry
31.
Young Goodman Brown
 
 
AnswerNathaniel Hawthorne
30.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
 
 
AnswerJames Thurber
29.
Le Horla
 
 
AnswerGuy de Maupassant
28.
The Pit and the Pendulum
 
 
AnswerEdgar Allan Poe
27.
The Last Question
 
 
AnswerIsaac Asimov
26.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
 
 
AnswerWashington Irving
25.
A Sound of Thunder
 
 
AnswerRay Bradbury
24.
Yvette
 
 
AnswerGuy de Maupassant
23.
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
 
 
AnswerMark Twain
22.
Rappaccini's Daughter (1844)
 
 
AnswerNathaniel Hawthorne
21.
The Story of an Hour
 
 
AnswerKate Chopin
20.
Bartleby the Scrivener
 
 
AnswerHerman Melville
19.
A Martian Odyssey
 
 
AnswerStanley G. Weinbaum
18.
The Vampyre
 
 
AnswerJohn William Polidori
17.
The Most Dangerous Game
 
 
AnswerRichard Connell
16.
The Dead
 
 
AnswerJames Joyce
15.
The Call of Cthulhu
 
 
AnswerH.P. Lovecraft
14.
To Build a Fire
 
 
AnswerJack London
13.
Rain
 
 
AnswerWilliam Somerset Maugham
12.
The Red Room
 
 
AnswerH.G. Wells
11.
The Lady or the Tiger?
 
 
AnswerFrank Stockton
10.
The Monkey's Paw
 
 
AnswerW.W. Jacobs
9.
The Fly
 
 
AnswerKatherine Mansfield
8.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
 
 
AnswerAmbrose Bierce
7.
In the Penal Colony
 
 
AnswerFranz Kafka
6.
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
 
 
AnswerStephen King
5.
The Sentinel
 
 
AnswerArthur C. Clarke
4.
A Rose for Emily
 
 
AnswerWilliam Faulkner
3.
The Overcoat
 
 
AnswerNikolai Gogol
2.
The Tell-Tale Heart
 
 
AnswerEdgar Allan Poe
1.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
 
 
AnswerLeo Tolstoy
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