BBC Classics: Ultimate Story Collection: 90 Unmissable Tales


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A treasure chest of timeless short stories by some of the world’s greatest authors.

Suspense and horror:

1. ‘The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire’ – Arthur Conan Doyle

2. ‘The Signalman’ – Charles Dickens

3. ‘Lost Hearts’ – MR James

4. ‘The Sealed Room’ – Arthur Conan Doyle

5. ‘Mrs Badgery’ – Wilkie Collins

6. ‘Wailing Well’ – MR James

7. ‘The Open Window’ – Saki

8. ‘How It happened’ – Arthur Conan Doyle

9. ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ – Edgar Allan Poe

10. ‘The Cone’ – HG Wells

11. ‘A Haunted House’ – Virginia Woolf

12. ‘Rats’ – MR James

13. ‘The Oval Portrait’ – Edgar Allan Poe

14. ‘Tarquin of Cheapside’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

15. ‘One Crowded Hour’ – Arthur Conan Doyle

16. ‘The Mezzotint’ – MR James

17. ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ – Edgar Allan Poe

Love:

18. ‘The Kiss’ – Kate Chopin

19. ‘Eleonora’ – Edgar Allan Poe

20. ‘About Love’ – Anton Chekhov

21. ‘The Lovers’ – Hans Christian Anderson

22. ‘Love’ – Guy De Maupassant

23. ‘The Sphinx Without a Secret’ – Oscar Wilde

24. ‘A Wedding Gift’ – Guy De Maupassant

25. ‘Kew Gardens’ – Virginia Woolf

26. ‘The District Doctor’ – Ivan Turgenev

27. ‘Happiness’ – Guy De Maupassant

28. ‘A Blunder’ – Anton Chekhov

29. ‘The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky’ – Stephen Crane

30. ‘In a Far-Off World’ – Olive Schreiner

31. ‘The Cook’s Wedding’ – Anton Chekhov

32. ‘The Recruit’ – Honore de Balzac

33. ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’ – Oscar Wilde

34. ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ – Ovid

35. ‘Aunt Hetty on Matrimony’ – Fanny Fern

36. ‘A Country Cottage’ – Anton Chekhov

37. ‘Marriage a la Mode’ – Katherine Mansfield

38. ‘The Statue of Limitations’ – Ernest Dowson

39. ‘The Dilettante’ – Edith Wharton

Humorous:

40. ‘Tobermory’ – Saki

41. ‘The Mesmeric Mountain’ – Stephen Crane

42. ‘The Children’s Joke’ – Louisa May Alcott

43. ‘At the Siren’ – Anton Chekhov

44. ‘The Garden Party’ – Katherine Mansfield

45. ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ – Edgar Allan Poe

46. ‘The New Dress’ – Virginia Woolf

47. ‘How I Built Myself a House’ – Thomas Hardy

48. ‘The Model Millionaire’ – Oscar Wilde

49. ‘A Pair of Silk Stockings’ – Kate Chopin

50. ‘At the Barbers’ – Anton Chekhov

51. ‘A Respectable Woman’ – Kate Chopin

Folk and fable:

52. ‘The Happy Prince’ – Oscar Wilde.

53. ‘The Elves and the Shoemaker’ – The Brothers Grimm

54. ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ – Hans Christian Andersen

55. ‘The Tongue Cut Sparrow’ – Yei Theodora Ozaki

56. ‘Finn and the Scottish Giant’ – Harold F. Read

57. ‘The Postmaster’ – Rabindranath Tagore

58. ‘The Toys of Peace’ – Saki

59. ‘The Selfish Giant’ – Oscar Wilde

60. ‘The Flower Gatherer’ – Edward Thomas

61. ‘Araby’ – James Joyce

62. ‘The Interlopers’ – Saki

63. ‘Tom Thumb’ – The Brothers Grimm

64. ‘The Kabuliwalah’ – Rabindranath Tagore

65. ‘The Monkey’s Paws’ – WW Jacobs

Christmas:

66. ‘The Little Match Girl’ – Hans Christian Andersen

67. ‘Papa Panov’s Special Christmas’ – Leo Tolstoy

68. ‘Christmas Storms and Sunshine’ – Elizabeth Gaskell.

69. ‘The Gift of the Magi’ – O’Henry

70. ‘At Christmas Time ‘- Anton Chekhov

71. ‘A Dill Pickle’ – Katherine Mansfield

Classic tales:

72. ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

73. ‘The Fall of Lord Barrymore’ – Arthur Conan Doyle

74. ‘The Necklace’ – Guy De Maupassant

75. ‘Holiday Group’ – EM Delafield

76. ‘Three Questions’ – Leo Tolstoy

77. ‘The Cop and the Anthem’ – O’Henry

78. ‘The Fly’ – Katherine Mansfield

79. ‘The Christening’ – DH Lawrence

80. ‘After the Race’ – James Joyce

81. ‘The String Quartet’ – Virginia Woolf

82. ‘Two Friends’ – Guy De Maupassant

83. ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’ – Ambrose Bierce

84. ‘A Gentleman Friend’ – Anthon Chekhov

85. ‘Ma’ame Pelagie’ – Kate Chopin

86. ‘Second Best’ – DH Lawrence

87. ‘El Verdugo’ – Honore de Balzac

88. ‘The Story of an Hour’ – Kate Chopin

89. ‘The Man of No Account’ – Bret Hart

90. ‘The Piece of String’ – Guy De Maupassant

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