Collected together in Sixteen Short Stories are these classics of the genre: Ambrose Bierce’s An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Willa Cather’s The Enchanted Bluff Anton Chekhov’s The Bet Stephen Crane’s The Blue Hotel William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily Nathaniel Hawthorne’s My Kinsman, Major Molineaux Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers Zora Neale Hurston’s Sweat Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle Rudyard Kipling’s The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes Jack London’s To Build a Fire Katherine Mansfield’s The Fly Guy de Maupassant’s Boule de Suif Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat Leo Tolstoy’s God Sees the Truth, But Waits Edith Wharton’s Afterward