Have you read the 50 best short stories of all time? In 1914, a critical moment in literature, The New York Times asked the most highly regarded authors of the day to name the best short story in the English language. Many of their responses have maintained consistent fame through time. Others have become hidden gems. All are essential literary experiences that will make you love to read again. These masterpieces are collected here for the first time, masterfully copyedited and with an introduction by Martin Hill Ortiz, PhD. This volume includes: Introduction The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Haunted and the Haunters; Or, the House and the Brain by Edward Bulwer-Lytton A Municipal Report by O. Henry The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale The Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens The Story of Richard Doubledick by Charles Dickens The Belled Buzzard by Irvin S. Cobb An Incident by Sarah Barnwell Elliott A Journey by Edith Wharton Beyond the Pale by Rudyard Kipling Without Benefit of Clergy by Rudyard Kipling The Stolen Story by Jesse Lynch Williams The Dead by James Joyce