The Short Story Reader Author:Edited by Rodney Kimball Classic short stories by Dorothy Sayers, A. conan Doyle, James Thurber, Edgar Allen Poe, Wallace Stegner, Stephen Crane, Howard Fast, Leo Tolstoy, Hans Christian Andersen, O. Henry, Louis Zara, Arthur Morrison, Ring Lardner, Alec Rackowe, Pearl Buck, Rudyard Kipline, Wilbur D. Steele and many others.