Sadly there are some people in the world who haven't discovered the joys of short fiction. We invited members of the Society to list stories they thought would make a great introduction to the field, and here are their suggestions. Most but not all are mysteries. We have compiled sources for each story but we will have to put them in a separate note.
| Allingham | Margery | The Villa Marie Celeste |
| Barrie | J.M. | The Adventure of the two collaborators |
| Barthelme | Donald | The Joker's Greatest Triumph |
| Bierce | Ambrose | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
| Bierce | Ambrose | A Horseman in the sky |
| Borges | Jorge Luis | Borges and I |
| Boyle | TC | Achates McNeil |
| Bradbury | Ray | The Fruit at the bottom of the bowl |
| Bradbury | Ray | The Jar |
| Bradbury | Ray | The Whole Town's Sleeping, |
| Brown | Fredric | Voodoo |
| Cecil | Henry | Proof |
| Chan | Christopher | Six year old serial killer |
| Cheever | John | The Enormous Radio |
| Child | Lee | Guy walks into a bar |
| Christensen | Jan | Artie and the long-legged woman |
| Collier | John | Thus I refute Beelzy |
| Connell | Richard | The most dangerous game |
| Dahl | Roald | Lamb to the Slaughter |
| de Maupassant | Guy | The Necklace |
| Dick | Philip K. | The Box |
| Dinesen | Isak | Babette's feast |
| Doyle | Arthur C | The Adventure of the Speckled Band |
| du Maurier | Daphne | Don't look now |
| du Maurier | Daphne | The Birds |
| Eliot | George | Lifted Veil |
| Ellison | Harlan | Soft Monkey |
| Ellison | Harlan | Jeffty is five |
| Fitzgerald | F. Scott | A Diamond as big as the ritz |
| Galsworthy | John | Under the Apple Tree |
| Garcia Marquez | Gabriel | Death Constant Beyond Love |
| Gilman | Charlotte Perkins | The Yellow wallpaper |
| Glaspell | Elizabeth | A Jury of her peers |
| Grafton | Sue | A Poison that leaves no trace |
| Hall | James W. | Crack |
| Hardy | Melissa | The Uncharted Heart |
| Harvey | WF | August Heat |
| Heker | Liliana | Stolen Party |
| Hemingway | Ernest | Hills Like White Elephants |
| Henry | O | The Gift of the magi |
| Henry | O | The Ransom of red chief |
| Hill | Joe | 20th century ghost |
| Holding | James | Second Talent |
| Jackson | Shirley | The Lottery |
| Jackson | Shirley | The Possibility of Evil |
| Jacobs | WW | The Monkey's Paw |
| James | PD | Great Aunt Allie's Flypapers |
| Kemal | Yashar | Dirty Story |
| King | Stephen | Mrs Todd's Shortcut |
| King | Stephen | Last Rung on the Ladder |
| Knight | Damon | The Country of the Kind |
| Lansdale | Joe R | The Night they missed the horror show |
| Lardner | Ring | Haircut |
| Lehane | Dennis | Running out of dog |
| Lippman | Laura | Crack Cocaine Diet |
| Matheson | Richard | Disinheritors |
| Melville | Herman | Benito Cereno |
| Oates | Joyce Carol | Where are you going, where have you been? |
| O'Connor | Flannery | A Good Man is hard to find |
| Pachter | Josh | The Odds are Good |
| Poe | Edgar A | The Murders in the Rue Morgue |
| Poe | Edgar A | A Cask of Amontillado |
| Rinehart | Mary R | Lipstick |
| Ritchie | Jack | The Green Heart |
| Russ | Joanna | My Boat |
| Sa'edi | Gholam-Hossein | Game is over |
| Saki | Reginald | |
| Slaughter | Karin | Remmy Rothstein Toes the Line |
| Spark | Muriel | The Portobello Road |
| Sturgeon | Theodore | A Way of Thinking |
| Symons | Julian | The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring |
| Taylor | Art | English 398: Fiction Workshop |
| Thurber | James W. | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| Wilhelm | Kate | The Funeral |
| Winslow | Don | San Diego Zoo |
| Wodehouse | PG | Crime wave at Blandings |
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