Short Story Unit
Pick 6 short stories to read from the following list. You must read short stories written by six different
authors (that means you cannot read more than one short story by the same author), and you will
read 2 per week for the next 3 weeks. On Friday of each week, you will participate in a book-club-like
discussion where you will analyze, compare, and contrast your short stories with the others shared by
your group mates. Prior to the group discussion, you will be required to complete a discussion
preparation sheet for each short story.
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“The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe
“Hop-Frog” by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
“Beware of the Dog” by Roald Dahl
“Poison” by Roald Dahl
“The Interlopers” by Saki (also goes by H.H. Munro)
“The Open Window” by Saki (also goes by H.H. Munro)
“A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury
“All Summer in a Day “by Ray Bradbury
“There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury
“Charles” by Shirley Jackson
“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
“The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant
“The Lady, or the Tiger?” by Frank R. Stockton
“The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs
“The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty
“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell
“The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst
“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner
“Thank You, M’am” by Langston Hughes
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber
“The Outcasts of Poker Flat” by Bret Harte
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“To Build a Fire” by Jack London
“The Weapon” by Fredric Brown
“Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor
“The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” by Stephen Crane