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.