Who is the best short story author?

Question

and what are his/her best stories? I need to read 3 short stories from 1 author.

Answer 1

Edgar Allan Poe

The BLack Cat
Tell-Tale Heart
Cask of Amontillado
Fall of the House of Usher
The Masque of Red Death
The PIt and The Pendulum

Answer 2

Richard Connell's the main deadly game written in 1924 is an marvelous short tale that tells the story of a brilliant game hunter touchdown on an island owned via a madman and forced to apply skills to stay to tell the story being hunted himself. I recomend it wholehartedly.

Answer 3

I would have to say MArk Twain still has the best short stories. I would suggest the following three...

The Man Who Corrupted Hadleburg
Cannibalism in the Cars
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

but just about any you find from him will be equally entertaining.

Answer 4

Edgar Allen Poe

The Black Cat
Tell Tale Heart
Purloined Letter

Answer 5

In case you are further along in your reading, some of these authors are also writers of novels. The first two are my very favorites.
Flannery O'Connor
Eudora Welty
Faulkner
Herman Melville
James Joyce
O'Henry
Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conon Doyle)
Willa Cather

Answer 6

Graham Greene

*The Destructors (one of the best short stories of its time)
*The Over-Night Bag
*All But Empty

Answer 7

O.Henry was a famous writer of short stories...the one he is well known for is called "The Gift of the Magi"

The "O.Henry Award" is a prestigious annual prize given to writers of short stories.

Answer 8

i prefer Oscar Wilde
for his satire in "The Canterville Ghost'
his sensitivity in 'The Happy Prince'
his humour,sensibility and the element of surprise in 'The Model Millionaire'
all i all i admire his clarity of thoughts in terms of philosophy and his perception of the world,his impeccable articulation of the same and the lucidity of his presentation.
i believe he is one of the greatest writers of all times.

Answer 9

aesop he wrote very short parabels like short stories

Answer 10

your brain