first-person narrative Books

Best Short Stories -- Advanced Level

Raymond Harris, Katherine Mansfield, James Baldwin, Frank O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Updike, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, Isaac Asimov, Woody Allen, Mark Twain, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Shirley Jackson, John Steinbeck

Campfire Chillers

Edith M. Freeman, E.M. Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Ambrose Bierce

Different Seasons

Ghost and horror stories of Ambrose Bierce [24 stories]

Ambrose Bierce, E.F. Bleiler

Ghostly

Audrey Niffenegger, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Oliver Onions, Montague Rhodes James, P. G. Wodehouse, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred McLelland Burrage, A. S. Byatt, Saki, Kelly Link, Anna Giacalone Ramat, Rebecca Curtis, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton

In the midst of life [19 stories]

Ambrose Bierce

Murder for Halloween

Michele B. Slung, Michelle Slung, Evan Hunter, Steven Saylor, Ellery Queen, P Lovesey, Edward D. Hoch, August Derleth, Marcia Muller, Edgar Allan Poe, James Grady, Robert Bloch, Michael Z. Lewin, Gahan Wilson, Bram Stoker, Judith Garner, Dorothy Cannell, Talmage Powell, Anthony Boucher, Peter Straub

My Favorite Horror Story

Mike Baker, Martin H. Greenberg, Mike Baker, Robert Bloch, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce

Mystery Cats

Lilian Jackson Braun, Roy Vickers, Fred Hamlin, Mary Reed, Theodore Sturgeon, Patricia Moyes, Hugh B. Cave, Gary Erickson, Margaret Maron, Edward D. Hoch, Joyce Harrington, Lillian De La Torre, Edgar Allan Poe, James Holding, Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell

Narraciones extraordinarias (Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter / Raven / William Wilson)

Edgar Allan Poe

Nightfrights

Pete Haining, Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson

Novellas (Body / Breathing Method)

Stephen King

Roger Caras' Treasury of Great Cat Stories

Roger A. Caras, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain

Scarlet Letter with Connections

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Perry Turner, Shirley Jackson, Elinor Wylie, Doreen Rappaport, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Richard Alleva, Edgar Allan Poe

Shadow Country

Peter Matthiessen

Short Stories (Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Oblong Box / System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether/ Tell-Tale Heart)

Edgar Allan Poe, Gris Grimly

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Edgar Allan Poe

The Anthology of Ghost Stories

Richard Dalby, Robert Aickman, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Dalby

The Body

Stephen King

The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce [93 stories]

Ambrose Bierce

The InterActive Reader

Ph.D. reading consultant Sharon Sicinski-Skeans, Toni Cade Bambara, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Jack London, Daniel Keyes, Антон Павлович Чехов, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain

The Limits of Autobiography

Leigh Gilmore

The Moral of the Story

Jerry Newcombe, Samuel Kamaleson, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lewis Carroll, William Trevor

The Saturday Evening Post Treasury

Roger butterfield, Roger Butterfield, Roger Place Butterfield, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Edith Wharton, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe

The Sophisticated Cat

Joyce Carol Oates, Daniel Halpern, Антон Павлович Чехов, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Ambrose Bierce

Treasury of Animal Stories

E. Louise Malley, E. Louise Mally, Edith Wharton, John Steinbeck, Edgar Allan Poe, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Jack London, Антон Павлович Чехов, Herman Melville