The World's One Hundred Best Stories

Charles Reade compiled "The World's One Hundred Best Stories," a collection that showcases his keen eye for compelling narratives. He was a writer who understood what made a story stick with readers.

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.[1] He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in...

An English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers.

Grant Martin Overton compiled The World's One Hundred Best Stories, a collection that showcases his keen eye for enduring tales. He had a knack for bringing together stories that resonate with readers across different genres.

Grant Overton is the compiler of The World's One Hundred Best Stories, a collection that spans a wide range of fiction. He has a knack for bringing together excellent tales for readers to discover.

Born Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp in Wellington, New Zealand, she moved to England at age 19, mixed with modernist writers there, lead a very modernist life there, and died relatively young of tuberculosis (Wikipedia).

Melville Davisson Post was a master of classic mystery, weaving intricate tales that have stood the test of time. His collection, Great Classic Mysteries, showcases his skill in crafting suspenseful plots and memorable characters. If you enjoy a good old-fashioned whodunit, Post's work is a must-read.

Paul de Kock was a French writer known for his popular novels. He's best remembered for collections like The World's One Hundred Best Stories, which showcased a wide range of tales.

Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a grea...

Wilbur Daniel Steele was a master of the short story, particularly known for his contributions to American literature. His collection, Great American Short Stories, showcases his skill in crafting compelling narratives. He's a writer you'll want to revisit.

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright and short story writer best known for The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868). The last has been called the first modern English detective novel. Born to the family of a painter, William Collins, in London, he grew up in Italy and France, learning French and Italian. He began work as a clerk for a tea merchant. After his first novel, Antonina, appeared in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, w...

Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of Expressionism in Russian literature