This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers:

- H.P. Lovecraft,

- Edgar Allan Poe,

- Arthur Conan Doyle,

- Katherine Mansfield,

- Jack London,

- Guy de Maupassant,

- Virginia Woolf, F.

- Scott Fitzgerald,

- Edith Wharton,

- Stephen Crane,

- Susan Glaspell,

- Kate Chopin,

- Laura E. Richards,

- Alice Dunbar-Nelson,

- Louisa May Alcott,

- Hans Christian Andersen,

- Charles Dickens,

- Nathaniel Hawthorne,

- Henry James,

- Mark Twain,

- Charlotte Perkins,

- Elizabeth Gaskell,

- Herman Melville,

- James Joyce,

- Leo Tolstoy,

- Nikolai Gogol,

- Anton Chekhov,

- Fyodor Dostoevsky,

- Maxim Gorky,

- Leonid Andreyev,

- Ivan Turgenev,

- Joseph Conrad,

- Aleksander Pushkin,

- Robert Louis Stevenson,

- Robert E. Howard,

- G. K. Chesterton,

- Edgar Wallace,

- Arthur Machen,

- Ambrose Bierce,

- Talbot Mundy,

- Abraham Merritt,

- Zane Grey,

- Edgar Rice Burroughs,

- Oscar Wilde,

- Rudyard Kipling,

- E.T.A. Hoffman,

- Bram Stoker,

- H.G. Wells,

- Franz Kafta

- Washington Irving.