Fireside Reader: A Treasury of Outstanding Short Stories

The bottle imp / Robert Louis Stevenson -- An end to dreams / Stephen Vincent Benét -- [Parson's pleasure](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8318648W) / Roald Dahl -- The bride comes to yellow sky / Stephen Crane -- The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- The foster portfolio / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- The poor relation's story / Charles Dickens -- The real thing / Henry James -- The hostage / C.S. Forester -- Rip van Winkle / Washington Irving -- The girls in their summer dresses / Irwin Shaw -- The street that got mislaid / Patrick Waddington -- A piece of steak / Jack London -- The secret ingredient / Paul Gallico -- The hawk / Liam O'Flaherty -- The apprentice / Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- A sick call / Morley Callaghan -- A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins -- The loss / Gillian Tindall -- The mouse / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- Tickets, please / D.H. Lawrence -- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells -- The gifts of war / Margaret Drabble -- The skedule / H.H. Wilson -- Well I'm -! / G.E.M. Skues -- The weather breeder / Merrill Denison -- In and out of the houses / Elizabeth Taylor -- [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner -- The test / Brendan Gill -- The hammer of God / G.K. Chesterton -- The pocketbook game / Alice Childress -- The wedding gift / Thomas Raddall -- [The adventure of the speckled band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262561W) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)/ Edgar Allan Poe -- The boy who drew cats / Lafcadio Ahearn -- The little governess / Katherine Mansfield -- Running wolf / Algernon Blackwood -- The peach stone / Paul Horgan -- Red / W. Somerset Maugham -- The fiery wooing of Mordred / P.G. Wodehouse -- A sunrise on the veld / Doris Lessing -- The ghost / Richard Hughes -- The birds / Daphne du Maurier -- The story of the widow's son / Mary Lavin -- The train from Rhodesia / Nadine Gordimer -- Dygartsbush / Walter D. Edmonds -- The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter -- Winter's morning / Len Deighton -- The lady on the gray / John Collier -- The wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark.