The Penguin Books of Short Stories

The Penguin Books of Short Stories is a 11-book series with 11 primary works first released in 1981 with contributions by D.J. Richards, Anonymous, Ambrose Bierce, M.R. James, H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, Perceval London, John Russell, Franz Kafka, E.F. Benson, Augustus Muir, James Hogg, John Metcalfe, William Faulkner, D.K. Broster, Lord Dunsany, Evelyn Waugh, Geoffrey Household, L.P. Hartley, Gerald Kersh, Prosper Mérimée, Yvor Winters, Monica Dickens, Robert Graves, Ray Bradbury, Muriel Spark, John Lennon, Dawn Muscillo, Dorothy K. Haynes, Patricia Highsmith, Roald Dahl, Edgar Allan Poe, Will F. Jenkins, J.N. Allan, Vilas Sarang, Honoré de Balzac, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Émile Zola, Various, Carl Stephenson, Alfred McClelland Burrage, William Fryer Harvey, Malcolm Bradbury, Jane Urquhart, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Kafū Nagai, Natsume Sōseki, Ōgai Mori, Yukio Mishima, Yūko Tsushima, Taeko Kōno, Kenji Nakagami, Banana Yoshimoto, Minako Ohba, Fumiko Enchi, Abe Akira, Yōko Ogawa, Doppo Kunikida, Uno Kōji, Genji Keita, Minoru Betsuyaku, Mieko Kawakami, Shinichi Hoshi, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Sawanishi Yuten, Hyakken Uchida, Ota Yoko, Yuichi Seirai, Yasunari Kawabata, Akiyuki Nosaka, Tomoyuki Hoshino, Kazumi Saeki, Aoko Matsuda, and Yūya Satō.