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