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:
- Sheridan Le Fanu
- H. and E. Heron
- Charlotte Riddell
- Flora Annie Steel
- Amelia B. Edwards
- Margaret Oliphant
- Edward Bellamy
- Arnold Bennett
- S. Baring-Gould
- Daniil Kharms
- E.F. Benson
- John Buchan
- Ella D'Arcy
- Jacques Futrelle
- Frank Richard Stockton
- John Kendrick Bangs
- Kenneth Grahame
- Julian Hawthorne
- A. E. W. Mason
- Richard Middleton
- Pierre Louÿs
- Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole
- Ethel Richardson
- Gertrude Stein
- E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Arthur Quiller-Couch
- Mór Jókai
- Andy Adams
- Bertha Sinclair
- Fitz James O'Brien
- Eleanor H. Porter
- Valery Bryusov
- John Ulrich Giesy
- Otis Adelbert Kline
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Frank Lucius Packard
- Barry Pain
- Gertrude Bennett
- Francis Marion Crawford
- William Pett Ridge
- Gilbert Parker
- Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
- Elizabeth Garver Jordan
- Richard Austin Freeman
- Alice Duer Miller
- Leonard Merrick
- Anthony Hope
- Ethel Watts Mumford
- Anne O'Hagan Shinn
- B. M. Bower