The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe was first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey’s Lady’s Book.
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The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster
Originally published in 1909, The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster was later republished in Forster’s The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928.
The Burial of the Rats by Bram Stoker
The Burial of the Rats by Bram Stoker was first published in the 1896. The story was collected in Stoker’s third collection of short stories Dracula’s Guest And Other Weird Stories which appeared in 1914.
Love and Freindship by Jane Austen
Love and Freindship by Jane Austen is a early story dated 1790. Written between the ages of 11 to 18 Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks.
The Fit by Anton Chekhov
The Fit by Anton Chekhov appears in The Bet and Other Stories, first published in 1889.
By Advice of Counsel by P. G. Wodehouse
By Advice of Counsel by P. G. Wodehouse was published in 1914. It appears in the collection The Man Upstairs and Other Stories.
The Californian’s Tale by Mark Twain
The Californian’s Tale by Mark Twain was originally published in 1893. It tells the tale about a man, Henry, waiting for his wife to come home.
Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson was first published in 1885 in The Broken Shaft: Tales of Mid-Ocean as part of Unwin’s Christmas Annual. The story was later included in Stevenson’s collection The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables.
Let’s Get Together by Isaac Asimov
Let’s Get Together by Isaac Asimov was originally published in the Feb 1957 issue of Infinity Science Fiction, and later included in the collection The Rest of the Robots in 1964.
My Old Man by Ernest Hemingway
My Old Man by Ernest Hemingway was first published in his 1923 book Three Stories and Ten Poems. The story was later included in his next collection of stories, In Our Time, published in 1925 .