Henry Cuyler Bunner

My kinsman: Major Mollineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Black cat]( / Edgar Allan Poe -- Benito Cereno / Herman Melville -- Baker's bluejay yarn / Mark Twain -- The coup de grâce / Ambrose Bierce -- The beast in the jungle / Henry James -- The return of a private / Hamlin Garland -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- The heathen / Jack London -- I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson -- A day's work / Katharine Anne Porter -- Dry September / William Faulkner -- The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway.

Carlo or Kindness Rewarded Unknown The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Mark Twain The Christmas Tree and the Wedding Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Desiree's Baby ]( Kate Chopin A Gift of the Magi O. Henry In Zaccarath Lord Dunsany John G Katherine Mayo The Kiss Kate Chopin A Lickpenny Lover O. Henry The Love Letters of Smith Henry Cuyler Bunner Memory H. P. Lovecraft The Mirror (translator unknown; editor Francis J. Reynolds (1867-1937)) Catulle Mendès Mrs. Manstey's View Edith Wharton The Necklace Guy de Maupassant A Night Out Edward Peple Solander's Radio Tomb Ellis Parker Butler The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe Thomas Jefferson Brown James Oliver Curwood The Verdict Edith Wharton

The Best American Humorous Short Stories features tales from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and many other well known writers. From the editor:This volume does not aim to contain all "the best American humorous short stories"; there are many other stories equally as good, I suppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range of American literature. I have tried to keep a certain unity of aim and impression in selecting these stories. In the first place I determined that the pieces of brief fiction which I included must first of all be not merely good stories, but good short stories. I put myself in the position of one who was about to select the best short stories in the whole range of American literature, but who, just before he started to do this, was notified that he must refrain from selecting any of the best American short stories that did not contain the element of humor to a marked degree. But I have kept in mind the wide boundaries of the term humor, and also the fact that the humorous standard should be kept second - although a close second - to the short story standard.