This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: H.P. Lovecraft Edgar Allan Poe Arthur Conan Doyle Katherine Mansfield Jack London Guy de Maupassant Virginia Woolf F. Scott Fitzgerald Edith Wharton Stephen Crane Susan Glaspell Kate Chopin Laura E. Richards Alice Dunbar-Nelson Louisa May Alcott Hans Christian Andersen Charles Dickens Nathaniel Hawthorne Henry James Mark Twain Charlotte Perkins Gilman Elizabeth Gaskell Herman Melville James Joyce Leo Tolstoy Nikolai Gogol Anton Chekhov Fyodor Dostoevsky Maxim Gorky Leonid Andreyev Ivan Turgenev Joseph Conrad Aleksander Pushkin Robert Louis Stevenson Robert E. Howard G. K. Chesterton Edgar Wallace Arthur Machen Ambrose Bierce Talbot Mundy Abraham Merritt Zane Grey Edgar Rice Burroughs Oscar Wilde Rudyard Kipling E.T.A. Hoffmann Bram Stoker H.G. Wells Franz Kafka Washington Irving