Books like Great American Short Stories
Wallace Stegner, Mary Stegner, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Hamlin Garland, O. Henry, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Sherwood Anderson, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Conrad Aiken, Katherine Anne Porter, James Thurber, William March, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Paul Horgan, John O'Hara, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Eudora Welty, Hortense Calisher, Mary (editor) Stegner
Great American Short Stories is 511 pages, about 9 hours 22 minutes at 250 words a minute.
12 books to read next
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The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe 42 min -
The Evil Image Patricia L. Skarda, Nora Jaffe, Daniel Defoe, John Aikin, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Alcock, Matthew Lewis, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, John William Polidori, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Sir Walter Scott, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Christina Rossetti, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, M. R. James, A. E. Coppard, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Anne Sexton, Stephen King 8.8 h -
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Edgar Allan Poe 5.1 h -
The Horror Hall of Fame Robert Silverberg, Martin H. Greenberg, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King 7.6 h -
Eight Tales of Terror Edgar Allan Poe 3.6 h -
The United States in Literature [with Three Long Stories] -- Seventh Edition James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, Kerry M. Wood, John Smith, William Bradford, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Phillis Wheatley, Philip Morin Freneau, Benjamin Franklin, J. Hector St. John, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, James W. C. Pennington, Francis Wright, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Rowe Snow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Seattle Chief, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Mollie Dorsey Sanford, Sidney Lanier, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Satanta, Chief Joseph, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Lee Masters, James Thurber, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elinor Wylie, Sara Teasdale, T. S. Eliot, James Weldon Johnson, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, William Carlos Williams, E. E. Cummings, Phyllis McGinley, Arna Bontemps, Claude McKay, Margaret Walker, Robinson Jeffers, Louise Bogan, Lewis Thomas, Dorothy Parker, Tennessee Williams, Robert Anderson, Lillian Hellman, Patrick F. McManus, William Least Heat Moon, Richard Rodriguez, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Mona Van Duyn, Richard Wilbur, Denise Levertov, David Wagoner, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hayden, Karl Jay Shapiro, Adrienne Rich, Richard Eberhart, May Swenson, Mari Evans, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Robert Lowell, Galway Kinnell, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, Gwendolyn Brooks, John N. Morris, Sylvia Plath, LeRoi Jones, Vern Rutsala, N. Scott Momaday, Lawson Fusao Inada, Jim Wayne Miller, James Masao Mitsui, Gary Soto, Leslie Marmon Silko, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Isaac Asimov, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, Carson McCullers, Kurt Vonnegut, Flannery O'Connor, Ray Bradbury, Eugenia Collier, Annie Dillard, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Walter Blair, Paul Farmer, Theodore Hornberger, Margaret Wasson, Conrad Richter, Bernard DeVoto, Pearl S. Buck, Robert Penn Warren, William Saroyan, Conrad Aiken, Sinclair Lewis, Esther Forbes, William Byrd, George Washington, Wendell Holmes Oliver, Herman Melville, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Henry Timrod, Abram Joseph Ryan, Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, O. Henry, Tom Wolfe, Stephen Vincent Benét, Irwin Shaw, Paul Engle, W. H. Auden, Vachel Lindsay, Leonie Adams, James Wright, Ogden Nash, David McCord, Morris Bishop, Richard Willard Armour, Don Marquis, E. J. Kahn, Paul Horgan, W. L. White, John Davenport, E. B. White, Jacques Barzun, George Santayana, Cleveland Amory, Norman Cousins, Frank C. Laubach, Vannevar Bush, Jesse Stuart, Douglas Southall Freeman, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Philip Hamburger, Eugene O'Neill, Robert C. Pooley, Clarence Day, Thornton Wilder, Theresa Helburn, Brad Schulberg 15.0 h -
The Nightmare Reader Peter Haining, Matthew Lewis, Mary Shelley, Washington Irving, Thomas De Quincey, Edward Bulwer, Edgar Allan Poe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, C. F. Hoffman, Lafcadio Hearn, H. P. Blavatsky, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Arthur Conan Doyle, Aleister Crowley, H. G. Wells, M. R. James, Montague Summers, H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, John Gawsworth, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke 5.5 h -
Desperation Stephen King 11.3 h -
The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe 35 min -
Works Richard Matheson 5.8 h -
The Dark Descent David G. Hartwell, Stephen King, John Collier, M. R. James, Lucy Clifford, Russell Kirk, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ray Bradbury, Michael Shea, E. Nesbit, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, Thomas M. Disch, Theodore Sturgeon, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Faulkner, Robert Hichens, Richard Matheson, Joanna Russ, Dennis Etchison, D. H. Lawrence, Tanith Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Ramsey Campbell, Henry James, Gene Wolfe, Charles Dickens, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter De la Mare, Ivan Turguenev, Robert Chambers, Oliver Onions, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Algernon Blackwood, Philip K. Dick 13.8 h -
100 Hair Raising Little Horror Stories Al Sarrantino, Al Sarrantonio, Martin H. Greenberg, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne 9.1 h
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The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe 42 min The Evil Image Patricia L. Skarda, Nora Jaffe, Daniel Defoe, John Aikin, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Alcock, Matthew Lewis, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, John William Polidori, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Sir Walter Scott, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Christina Rossetti, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, M. R. James, A. E. Coppard, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Anne Sexton, Stephen King 8.8 h Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Edgar Allan Poe 5.1 h The Horror Hall of Fame Robert Silverberg, Martin H. Greenberg, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King 7.6 h Eight Tales of Terror Edgar Allan Poe 3.6 h The United States in Literature [with Three Long Stories] -- Seventh Edition James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, Kerry M. Wood, John Smith, William Bradford, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Phillis Wheatley, Philip Morin Freneau, Benjamin Franklin, J. Hector St. John, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, James W. C. Pennington, Francis Wright, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Rowe Snow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Seattle Chief, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Mollie Dorsey Sanford, Sidney Lanier, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Satanta, Chief Joseph, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Lee Masters, James Thurber, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elinor Wylie, Sara Teasdale, T. S. Eliot, James Weldon Johnson, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, William Carlos Williams, E. E. Cummings, Phyllis McGinley, Arna Bontemps, Claude McKay, Margaret Walker, Robinson Jeffers, Louise Bogan, Lewis Thomas, Dorothy Parker, Tennessee Williams, Robert Anderson, Lillian Hellman, Patrick F. McManus, William Least Heat Moon, Richard Rodriguez, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Mona Van Duyn, Richard Wilbur, Denise Levertov, David Wagoner, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hayden, Karl Jay Shapiro, Adrienne Rich, Richard Eberhart, May Swenson, Mari Evans, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Robert Lowell, Galway Kinnell, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, Gwendolyn Brooks, John N. Morris, Sylvia Plath, LeRoi Jones, Vern Rutsala, N. Scott Momaday, Lawson Fusao Inada, Jim Wayne Miller, James Masao Mitsui, Gary Soto, Leslie Marmon Silko, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Isaac Asimov, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, Carson McCullers, Kurt Vonnegut, Flannery O'Connor, Ray Bradbury, Eugenia Collier, Annie Dillard, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Walter Blair, Paul Farmer, Theodore Hornberger, Margaret Wasson, Conrad Richter, Bernard DeVoto, Pearl S. Buck, Robert Penn Warren, William Saroyan, Conrad Aiken, Sinclair Lewis, Esther Forbes, William Byrd, George Washington, Wendell Holmes Oliver, Herman Melville, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Henry Timrod, Abram Joseph Ryan, Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, O. Henry, Tom Wolfe, Stephen Vincent Benét, Irwin Shaw, Paul Engle, W. H. Auden, Vachel Lindsay, Leonie Adams, James Wright, Ogden Nash, David McCord, Morris Bishop, Richard Willard Armour, Don Marquis, E. J. Kahn, Paul Horgan, W. L. White, John Davenport, E. B. White, Jacques Barzun, George Santayana, Cleveland Amory, Norman Cousins, Frank C. Laubach, Vannevar Bush, Jesse Stuart, Douglas Southall Freeman, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Philip Hamburger, Eugene O'Neill, Robert C. Pooley, Clarence Day, Thornton Wilder, Theresa Helburn, Brad Schulberg 15.0 h The Nightmare Reader Peter Haining, Matthew Lewis, Mary Shelley, Washington Irving, Thomas De Quincey, Edward Bulwer, Edgar Allan Poe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, C. F. Hoffman, Lafcadio Hearn, H. P. Blavatsky, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Arthur Conan Doyle, Aleister Crowley, H. G. Wells, M. R. James, Montague Summers, H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, John Gawsworth, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke 5.5 h Desperation Stephen King 11.3 h The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe 35 min Works Richard Matheson 5.8 h The Dark Descent David G. Hartwell, Stephen King, John Collier, M. R. James, Lucy Clifford, Russell Kirk, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ray Bradbury, Michael Shea, E. Nesbit, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, Thomas M. Disch, Theodore Sturgeon, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Faulkner, Robert Hichens, Richard Matheson, Joanna Russ, Dennis Etchison, D. H. Lawrence, Tanith Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Ramsey Campbell, Henry James, Gene Wolfe, Charles Dickens, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter De la Mare, Ivan Turguenev, Robert Chambers, Oliver Onions, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Algernon Blackwood, Philip K. Dick 13.8 h 100 Hair Raising Little Horror Stories Al Sarrantino, Al Sarrantonio, Martin H. Greenberg, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne 9.1 h Bar height shows length. Estimated at 250 words a minute.