Short Stories About Revenge

Betrayal is perhaps the worst kind of human humiliation. Trust is given, words exchanged of steadfast support and suddenly for unfathomable reasons of family, loyalty, love or greater gain elsewhere you are cast aside. It’s difficult to justify and painful to receive. It can bruise lives and is often the cause of a need, a want, a desire for revenge. And by some measure this is not like-for-like or tit-for-tat, this is exacted for at a much higher cost. They say Revenge is a dish best served cold. Our classic authors who range from Edgar Allan Poe and Alexander Pushkin to Susan Glaspell and Paul Laurence Dunbar serve it up in many a manner, in many a style but always with relish. 01 - Short Stories About Revenge - An Introduction02 - Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F Scott Fitzgerald03 - The Cone by H G Wells04 - Hop Frog by Edgar Allan Poe05 - Mother Sauvage (La Mere Sauvage) by Guy de Maupassant06 - The Lumber Room by Saki07 - The Shot by Alexander Pushkin08 - The Caballero's Way by O Henry09 - Captain Rogers by W W Jacobs10 - The Signal by Vsevolod Garshin11 - The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane12 - Laura by Saki13 - The Scapegoat by Paul Laurence Dunbar14 - The Lie by Leonid Andreyev15 - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell16 - Sredni Vashtar by Saki17 - The Hand by Guy de Maupassant18 - The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce19 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon20 - The Music on the Hill by Saki21 - Revenge by Samuel Blas22 - The Man in the Bottle by Gustav Meyrink23 - Behind the Curtain by Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens24 - The Iron Shroud by William Mudford25 - Mateo Falcone by Prosper Merimee26 - The Sentimental Mortgage by Arthur Lynch27 - The Octoroon's Revenge by Ruth D Todd28 - The Spectre Bridegroom by William Hunt29 - Revenge by Ambrose Bierce30 - The Vendetta by Guy de Maupassant31 - The Hounds of Fate by Saki32 - The Cask of Amontillardo by Edgar Allan Poe