it was in a collection of the Best American Short Stories
Arthur Gordon, who is not a well known author at all.
Appointment In Samara is a novel by John O'Hara. It is also the name of a very, very short story by W.S. Maugham. Although I could not verify positively, it is my impression the short story by Maugham is actually something of a folk tale which Maugham cleaned up, and made into his own.
it starts at the train rescue level.
The Eyes Have It (also known as The Girl on the Train & The Eyes Are Not Here) is a short story by Ruskin Bond that was originally published in Contemporary Indian English Stories.
The Ian Fleming short story Quantum of Solace first appeared in Modern Woman's Magazine in November of 1959. It was later published as a part of the For Your Eyes Only short story collection in 1960.
Shalom Auslander wrote that short story...
Usha Bansal wrote this story
English author W. W. Jacobs wrote the short story The Monkey's Paw
"The Story of An Hour". Kate Chopin (1894).
Vladimir Nabokov wrote it in 1946.
The short story "The Midnight Meat Train," was written by Clive Barker, and is published in Books of Blood: Volume I, a collection of Barker's short stories.
"The Short Story of a Dog" was written by Barry Kitterman.
Paul jumps in front of the train in Willa Cather's short story "Paul's Case."
Patricia Highsmith was best known as an American novelist and short story writer. She wrote psychological crime thrillers such as her first novel "Strangers on a Train".
James Hurst
He is an author. He wrote the short story "Dark"
by Richard Matheson