Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 1

This book contains 70 short stories from 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains:- Washington Irving:The Legend of Sleepy HollowRip Van WinkleThe Devil and Tom WalkerChristmasGuest from Gibbet IslandThe Legend of the Engulphed ConventThe Adventure of my Uncle- Oscar Wilde:Lord Arthur Savile's CrimeThe Sphinx without a SecretA Model MillionaireThe Happy PrinceThe Fisherman and his SoulThe Nightingale and the RoseThe Young King- Bram Stoker:The Castle of the KingA Star TrapThe Secret of the Growing GoldThe Burial of the RatsDracula's GuestThe SquawThe Judge's House- H.G. Wells:The Time MachineA Dream Of ArmageddonThe Crystal EggThe Man Who Could Work MiraclesThe Flowering of the Strange OrchidThe Sea RidersThe Apple- Arthur Conan Doyle:A Scandal In BohemiaThe Five Orange PipsThe Disintegration MachineWhen the World ScreamedThe Great Keinplatz ExperimentThe Horror of the HeightsThe Ring of Thoth- E.T.A. Hoffman:The Golden PotThe SandmanCouncillor KrespelaAutomataThe Elementary SpiritThe Jesuits' Church in G--The Story of the Hard Nut- Rudyard Kipling:The Mark of the BeastThe Phantom 'RickshawMowgli's Brothers (from the Jungle Book)Kaa's Hunting (from the Jungle Book)Tiger! Tiger! (from the Jungle Book)The Strange Ride of Morrowbie JukesThe Man Who Would Be King- Franz Kafka:The MetamorphosisA Hunger ArtistIn the penal colonyThe JudgmentBefore the LawA Country DoctorA Report to an Academy- H.P. Lovecraft:The Call of CthulhuThe OutsiderPickman's ModelThe Statement of Randolph CarterThe Colour out of SpaceThe Dunwich HorrorThe Music of Erich Zann- Edgar Allan Poe:The Tell-Tale HeartThe Cask of AmontilladoThe Masque of the Red DeathThe Pit and the PendulumThe Fall of the House of UsherThe Murders in the Rue MorgueThe Black Cat