100 Famous American Stories

These short American bedtime stories are sorted out by Author
Bierce Ambrose
• The Boarded Window Bierce's most anthologized horror story
• A Horseman in the Sky war story - to kill a spy, who is his father.
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is most famous war story
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
• A Princess of Mars is magic story
Butler, Ellis Parker
• Pigs Is Pigs is a Fiction
Cather, Willa
• Paul's Case, a tragic story of a young boy
Chopin, Kate
• A Pair of Silk Stockings is a science fantasy story
• Athenaise is a love story
Crane, Stephen
• The Open Boat is an adventure story
• Folk Stories
• John Henry
• Paul Bunyan is an American Tall Tale
• Pecos Bill
Garland, Hamlin
• The Return of a Private, Smith, who has survived the ravages of war
Harte, Bret
• The Luck of Roaring Camp a sad story ending
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
• Doctor Heidegger's Experiment
• The Ambitious Guest
• The Birthmark
• Feathertop
• Rappaccini's Daughter,
Henry, O
• A Municipal Report
• The Exact Science of Matrimony
• The Gift of the Magi
• One Thousand Dollars
• The Ransom of Red Chief
• The Whirligig of Life
• The Last Leaf
Irving, Washington
• The Devil and Tom Walker (horror story)
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Jewett, Sarah
• The White Heron
London, Jack
• Keesh
• The Story of an Eyewitness
• To Build a Fire
• The God of His Fathers
• The Law of Life

Melville, Herman
• Bartleby comedy story
• Benito Cereno
O'Brien, Fitz-James
• The Diamond Lens
Poe, Edgar Allan
• The Cask of Amontillado
• The Purloined Letter
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• Porter, Eleanor H.
• The Lady in Black
• Stockton, Frank R.
• The Lady, or the Tiger?
• A Piece of Red Calico
Twain, Mark
• Luck
• The Californian's Tale
• The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Weaver, Caty
• The Boy on Graves-End Road - one of scary story
Wharton, Edith
• The Line of Least Resistance

This app is a storytelling audio book, you can read the text as you listen to its audio file.

These carefully chosen short stories make reader feel like as character in it - scary, sad and excited.