Any Short Story recommendations?

[coeus]

I have recently started reading short stories again (first time since it was mandatory in high school), and have found them to be very enjoyable for a quick read. Most of what I have read has been in anthologies (so pretty much nothing from this century ), and I'm sure there are tons of great ones I haven't heard of. Here are some of my favorites:

To Build a Fire, Jack London
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
2br02b by Kurt Vonnegut
A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
The Telltale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber

So, any suggestions for must-read short stories?

[Emil Miller]

Anythying by William Somerset Maugham but especially the following. Every one of them is a gem:

The Letter

The Outstation

The Lion's Skin

The Book Bag.

[TheFifthElement]

Less specific stories but more collections:
The Foxes Come at Night - Cees Nooteboom
The Bloody Chamber or Black Venus - Angela Carter
Cosmicomics or Numbers in the Dark - Italo Calvino
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka - also In the Penal Colony
Runaway - Alice Munro
The Awakening - Kate Chopin

[Scheherazade]

"A Rose for Emily" by Faulkner

"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by Salinger

"Button, Button" by Richard Matheson

"Pillar of Salt" by Shirley Jackson

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories by McCullers

[peppersasen]

"Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (my all-time favorite)
"Another Life" by Paul La Farge (on The New Yorker)
"A Simple Case" by E. C. Osondu (on The Atlantic)
"A Tragic Actor" by Chekhov

[WyattGwyon]

The collected stories of Dostoyevsky and Chekhov.

I'll second Emil's recommendation of Maugham.

[Lykren]

"A Clean Well-Lighted Place" by Hemingway.

"Everything Stuck to Him" by Raymond Carver.

Haven't read any short stories by Chekhov, but his novella "Three Years" was superb and fairly short.

[ladderandbucket]

Signs and Symbols - Nabokov
The Library of Babel - Borges
A Hunger Artist - Kafka
A Distant Episode - Paul Bowles

[Snowqueen]

The Last Leaf by O’ Henry

After Twenty Years by O’Henry

The Hitchhiker by Roald Dahl

The Story of a Nobody by Anton Chekhov

The Open Window by Saki

The Wolves of Cernogratz by Saki

[Abanera]

For some reason, John Cheever's The Swimmer has always stuck out as one of my favorite 'realistic' short stories.

Joyce's The Dead from Dubliners is always a favorite.

The geek in me loves Asimov's Nightfall.

[astrum]

TheFifthElement,

I thought that Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" was a novel.

[OrphanPip]

Well, Chopin's "Story of an Hour" is quite good, and you could add Willa Cather's "Paul's Case" to turn of the century stories written by women.

[astrum]

I read "Story of an Hour" in hs.

It was good.

[ennison]

Cheever's stories
Sheckley's stories
Para Handy Tales by Munro
Scotch Settlement by Paterson
A lot of Kipling but not all
LP Hartley's strange horror stories
James Shaw Grant's stories

[bookowskee]

First author that always comes to mind upon hearing short story/ies is Jorge Luis Borges. You can buy the complete compilations of all his short stories entitled Ficciones (Fictions). There, a masterful work of stories, collected in various time period unfolds before you in a labyrinthine way. A true master of short fictions. You can start with:

Tlon, Uqbar Orbis Tertius
The Secret Miracle
The Aleph
Shakespeare's Memory
The Three Version of Judas
Borges and I

And so on and so on.