D. Salinger, originally published in the January 31, 1948 issue of The New Yorker. It was anthologized in 1949's 55 Short Stories from The New Yorker, as well as in Salinger's 1953 collection, Nine Stories.

    Everything has been prepared for the town’s annual tradition—a lottery in which every family must participate, and no one wants to win. “The Lottery” stands out as one of the most famous short stories in American literary history. Originally published in The New Yorker, the author immediately began receiving letters from readers who demanded an explanation of the story’s meaning. “The Lottery” has been adapted for stage, television, radio and film.

    CONTENTSTHE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUNThe Fog HornThe PedestrianThe April WitchThe WildernessThe Fruit at the Bottom of the BowlInvisible BoyThe Flying MachineThe MurdererThe Golden Kite, The Silver WindI See You NeverEmbroideryThe Big Black And White GameA Sound Of ThunderThe Great Wide World Over TherePowerhouseEn La NocheSun And ShadowThe MeadowThe Garbage CollectorThe Great FireHail And FarewellThe Golden Apples Of The SunA MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLYIn The Season Of Calm WeatherThe DragonA Medicine For MelancholyThe End Of The BeginningThe Wonderful Ice Cream SuitFever DreamThe Marriage MenderThe Town Where No One Got OffA Scent of SarsaparillaIcarus Montgolfier WrightThe HeadpieceDark They Were, And Golden-EyedThe SmileThe First Night of LentThe Time Of Going AwayAll Summer In A DayThe GiftThe Great Collision of Monday LastThe Little MiceThe Shoreline At SunsetThe Strawberry WindowThe Day It Rained Forever

    Imagine the craftsmanship to explain an idea in one line. These stories that encompass a line or a paragraph are called Siyah Hashiye.

    The Great God Pan. The White People. Fourteen Stories! Over 500 pages. From the beginning of his literary career, Machen espoused a mystical belief that the humdrum ordinary world hid a more mysterious and strange world beyond. His gothic and decadent works of the 1890s concluded that the lifting of this veil could lead to madness, sex, or death, and usually a combination of all three. Machen's later works became somewhat less obviously full of gothic trappings, but for him investigations into mysteries invariably resulted in life-changing transformation and sacrifice. Machen loved the medieval world view because he felt it combined deep spirituality alongside a rambunctious earthiness. Machen's strong opposition to a materialistic viewpoint is obvious in many of his works, marking him as part of neo-romanticism. He was deeply suspicious of science, materialism, commerce, and Puritanism, all of which were anathema to Machen's conservative, bohemian, mystical, and ritualistic temperament.Contents:N (1936)Out of the Earth (1915)The Bowmen (1914)The Bright Boy (1936)The Children of the Pool (1936)The Great God Pan (1894)The Great Return (1915)The Happy Children (1920)The Inmost Light (1894)The Novel of the Black Seal (1895)The Novel of the White Powder (1895)The Shining Pyramid (1895)The Terror (1916)The White People (1904)

    It was this book which established Williams as a short story writer of the same stature and interest he had shown as a dramatist. Each story has qualities that make it memorable. In “One Arm” we live through his last hours and memories with a 'rough trade" ex-prizefighter who is awaiting execution for murder. "The Field of Blue Children" explores some of the strange ways of the human heart in love, "Portrait of a Girl in Glass" is a luminous and nostalgic recollection of characters who figure in "The Glass Menagerie," while "Desire and the Black Masseur" is an excursion into the logic of the macabre. "The Yellow Bird," well known through the author's recorded reading of it, which tells of a minister's daughter who found a particularly violent but satisfactory way of expiating a load of inherited puritan guilt, may well become part of American mythology.

    Contents:The Third LevelSuch Interesting NeighborsI’m ScaredCousin Len’s Wonderful Adjective CellarOf Missing PersonsSomething in a CloudThere Is a Tide...Behind the NewsQuit Zoomin’ Those Hands Through the AirA Dash of SpringSecond ChanceContents of the Dead Man’s Pockets

    'The House Party' and 'The Blessington Method' subsequently both won Edgar Awards. Stanley Ellin, who was made a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America in 1980, is acknowledged as one of the great masters of the 20th-century short story, and this volume brings together the best of his work in the genre.

    A protege and friend of Maxim Gorky, Babel came to prominence in the early 1920's with the publication of Red Cavalry, but as Stalin's repressive regime made the position of the creative writer increasingly difficult during the next decade, Babel published less and less. In 1939, he was arrested, and his papers, which were seized by the police, vanished with him. The charge against him is not known. A certificate delivered to the family shortly after Stalin died gives March 17, 1941, as the data of Babel's death, but mentions neither its cause nor where it had occurred. He was "rehabilitated" in 1954. His complete works were re-issued in Moscow in 1957.

    The only writing I have ever been jealous of.' Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was not the only writer to admire Mansfield's work: Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, and Elizabeth Bowen all praised her stories, and her early death at the age of thirty-four cut short one of the finest short-story writers in the English language. This selection covers the full range of Mansfield's fiction, from her early satirical stories to the subtly nuanced comedy of 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel' and the macabre and ominous 'A Married Man's Story'. The stories that pay what Mansfield calls 'a debt of love' to New Zealand are as sharply etched as the European stories, and she recreates her childhood world with mordant insight. Disruption is a constant theme, whether the tone is comic, tragic, nostalgic, or domestic, echoing Mansfield's disrupted life and the fractured expressions of Modernism. This new edition increases the selection from 27 to 33 stories and prints them in the order in which they first appeared, in the definitive texts established by Anthony Alpers.

    In this collection there are tales of Hyperborea, Zothique, Averoigne, Atlantis, Xiccarph, and other vanished worlds of Smith's unparalleled creation. Here are such unforgettable tales as Vulthoom, The Colossus of Ylourgne, The Charnel God, The Black Abbot of Puuthuum, The Weaver in the Vault, and others.None strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith. In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living - H.P. LovecraftHe had a monstrously vivid imagination, a keenly ironic sense of humour, and an uninhibited bent for the macabre. - L. Sprague de CampCover illustration by Brice Pennington

    Heard, Lewis Padgett, Robert Heinlein, Murray Leinster, A. E. Van Vogt, Arthur Clarke, and many others. Edited by the master of early science fiction anthologies, Groff Conklin.Contents:vii · Introduction · Groff Conklin · in · Part One: The Atom and After 3 · The Nightmare · Chan Davis · nv Astounding May ’46 19 · Tomorrow’s Children · Poul Anderson & F. N. Waldrop · nv Astounding Mar ’47 40 · The Last Objective · Paul Carter · nv Astounding Aug ’46 62 · Loophole · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Astounding Apr ’46 67 · The Figure · Edward Grendon · ss Astounding Jul ’47 · Part Two: The Wonders of Earth 75 · The Great Fog · H. F. Heard · ss The Great Fog and Other Weird Tales, Vanguard, 1944 85 · The Chrysalis · P. Schuyler Miller · ss Astounding Apr ’36 97 · Living Fossil · L. Sprague de Camp · ss Astounding Feb ’39 110 · N Day · Philip Latham · ss Astounding Jan ’46 · Part Three: The Superscience of Man 129 · With Folded Hands... [Humanoids] · Jack Williamson · nv Astounding Jul ’47 164 · No Woman Born · C. L. Moore · nv Astounding Dec ’44 201 · With Flaming Swords · Cleve Cartmill · nv Astounding Sep ’42 234 · Children of the “Betsy B” · Malcolm Jameson · ss Astounding Mar ’39 · Part Four: Dangerous Inventions 247 · Child’s Play · William Tenn · nv Astounding Mar ’47 268 · The Person from Porlock · Raymond F. Jones · nv Astounding Aug ’47 286 · Juggernaut · A. E. van Vogt · ss Astounding Aug ’44 294 · The Eternal Man [Herbert Zulerich] · D. D. Sharp · ss Science Wonder Stories Aug ’29 · Part Five: Adventures in Dimension 303 · Mimsy Were the Borogoves · Lewis Padgett · nv Astounding Feb ’43 329 · Time and Time Again · H. Beam Piper · ss Astounding Apr ’47 342 · Housing Shortage · Harry Walton · ss Astounding Jan ’47 358 · Flight of the Dawn Star · Robert Moore Williams · ss Astounding Mar ’38 369 · Vintage Season [by Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore] · Lawrence O’Donnell · na Astounding Sep ’46 · Part Six: From Outer Space 407 · Of Jovian Build · Oscar J. Friend · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct ’38 418 · Wings Across the Cosmos · Polton Cross · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Jun ’38 429 · The Embassy · Martin Pearson · ss Astounding Mar ’42 435 · Dark Mission · Lester del Rey · ss Astounding Jul ’40 · Part Seven: Far Traveling 451 · The Ethical Equations · Murray Leinster · ss Astounding Jun ’45 464 · It’s Great to Be Back! · Robert A. Heinlein · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jul 26 ’47 476 · Tools · Clifford D. Simak · nv Astounding Jul ’42 496 · Rescue Party · Arthur C. Clarke · nv Astounding May ’46

    FoxMars Is Heaven! / Ray Bradbury; artwork by Herman VestalPreview of Peril / A. Bertram Chandler; artwork by Alden McWilliamsAgainst the Stone Beasts / James Blish; artwork by DonelBrooklyn Project / William Tenn; artwork by Herman VestalSynthetic Hero / Erik Fennel; artwork by Herman VestalValkyrie from the Void / Basil WellsCartoon: "Here we are the masters!" ; Cartoon: "Er---any trees on the moon?" / artwork by E. P.

    Rolt in Sleep No More, his highly effective collection of stories which was first published in 1948.Tom Rolt was an engineering historian, whose many book credits include biographies of Thomas Telford and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, as well as the highly-acclaimed Red for Danger, a history of railway accidents and railway safety.Rolt's first book, Narrow Boat, a classic in its own right, tells of his love for Britain's canals, a love which led to his involvement with the Inland Waterways Association.His knowledge of Britain's industrial past and his love for the countryside around him are very evident in this collection, which includes two stories not included in the original edition and also Rolt's essay 'The Passing of the Ghost Story'. Rolt takes us on a haunted tour of the world he knew well—from Cornwall to Wales, and from the hill country of Shropshire to the west coast of Ireland—in tales which are guaranteed to make you Sleep No More.Jacket and interior illustrations by Paul Lowe.Contents:The MineThe Cat ReturnsBosworth Summit PoundNew CornerCwm GaronA Visitor at AshcombeThe Garside Fell DisasterWorld's EndHear Not My StepsAgony of FlameHawley Bank FoundryMusic Hath CharmsThe ShoutingThe House of VengeanceThe Passing of the Ghost Story

    Nine women meet weekly at Granny Hite's house to work on bridal quilts.

    

    Salinger, originally published February 1948 in Good Housekeeping Magazine. The story was republished in Best American Short Stories 1949, ed. Martha Foley, 1949.

    Dorothy's trip to the zoo with her prim and proper aunt doesn't stop her from having an imaginative rapport with the animals.

    This golden-age story, first published in the August 1948 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, was considered by its author to be one of his best – an opinion we heartily concur with.It was later republished in some anthologies as Resurrection, but it appeared in van Vogt’s first anthology of his own short stories (Destination: Universe!, in 1952) with its original title, and it was referred to by that name by him in later interviews, so The Monster clearly is the proper "canonical" title of this quite perfect story, one of the great stories of the century – all categories considered - we do believe.

    

    The scientists have found that all of the Martians have died of chickenpox (brought by one of the first three expeditions)—analogous to the devastation of Native American populations by smallpox.