Short Story
Reading List
Hemingway - Hills Like Elephants (8:49)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (14:46)
H.G. Wells - The Apple (22:27)
H.G. Wells - The Magic Shop (
Mark Twain - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Balvareas County (14:06)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Vision of the Fountain (13:53)
O. Henry - The Gift of the Magi (
O. Henry - The Last Leaf (17:41)
Robert Louis Stevenson - The Manse (15:31)
Rudyard Kipling - My own True Ghost Story (18:22)
Saki - The Story Teller (13:39)
Saki - The Open Window (8:24)
Shirley Jackson - The Lottery (36:20)
Thomas Hardy - A Changed Man (42:56)
Thomas Hardy - A Tragedy of Two Ambitions (61:09)
Thomas Hardy - A Tryst at Ancient Earth Work (29:55)
Thomas Hardy - Enter a Dragoon (47:00)
Thomas Hardy - Master John Horsesleigh (31:15)
Thomas Hardy - The Fiddler of the Reels (46:12)
Thomas Hardy - The Son’s Veto (37:36)
Thomas Hardy - To Please His Wife (45:52)
Virginia Woolf - A Haunted House (7:02)
Ray Bradbury - A Sound of Thunder (34:53)
Roald Dahl - The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (123:41)
MISC
Part 1: Characters
Gusev — Anton Chekhov
Boule de Suif — Guy de Maupassant
Alyosha the Pot — Leo Tolstoy
Mateo Falcone — Prosper Mérimée
Little Brother — Mary E. Mann
Bartleby, The Scrivener — Herman Melville
The Lightning-Rod Man — Herman Melville
The Ambitious Guest — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Darling — Anton Chekhov
A Simple Heart — Gustave Flaubert
Part 2: Animals
Sredni Vashta — Saki
Kholstomer, The Story of a Horse — Leo Tolstoy
A Dark-Brown Dog — Stephen Crane
Kashtanka — Anton Chekhov
The Cat That Walked By Himself — Rudyard Kipling
The Black Cat — Edgar Allan Poe
The Fly — Katherine Mansfield
The Boar-Pig — Saki
The Tiger Guest — Pu Songling
Jackals and Arabs — Franz Kafka
Part 3: Epiphanies
Araby — James Joyce
The Dead — James Joyce
The Strength of God — Sherwood Anderson
The Egg — Sherwood Anderson
A Death in the Desert — Willa Cather
Roman Fever — Edith Wharton
The Story of an Hour — Kate Chopin
Home Sickness — George Moore
The Madonna of the Future — Henry James
The Kiss — Anton Chekhov
Part 4: Mystery and Adventure
The Red-Headed League — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Arrow of Heaven — G. K. Chesterton
The Sign of the Broken Sword — G. K. Chesterton
The Purloined Letter — Edgar Allan Poe
The Master of Mystery — Jack London
The Problem of Cell 13 — Jacques Futrelle
The Three Stranger — Thomas Hardy
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Jury of Her Peers — Susan Glaspell
Part 5: Horror and Ghosts
The Body Snatcher — Robert Louis Stevenson
The Signal-Man — Charles Dickens
August Heat — W. F. Harvey
The Monkey’s Paw — W. W. Jacobs
“Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You my Lad” — M. R. James
The Phantom Coach — Amelia Edwards
The Horla — Guy de Maupassant
An Inhabitant of Carcosa — Ambrose Bierce
Schalken the Painter — Sheridan Le Fanu
The Cask of Amontillado — Edgar Allan Poe
