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Having just read through the whole thread, a few comments first:
Shirley Jackson did indeed write a classic short story called "Charles"; this was one of her family stories about her son Laurie's first days in kindergarten and his gleeful reports of the various misbehaviors of his classmate Charles.
John Collier's "Evening Primrose" was turned into a musical for an episode of a short-lived TV anthology series called Stage 67 in 1966; Stephen Sondheim wrote the music and lyrics, and Anthony Perkins starred. Sondheim fans had long passed around multi-generational VHS tapes of this episode, but just last fall the episode was finally beautifully restored and released on DVD.
Thanks to the poster who mentioned "Pigeons from Hell" being available here at MR. I did not even know it was a short story; I only knew of the classic Thriller episode (Boris Karloff's Thriller TV series recently got a DVD release as well).
Ditto "The Jar"--again, I only knew of the Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode, and now must go and look for the story.
(It would be an interesting project to compile a list of all the short stories that were dramatized on those old anthology shows from the sixties.)
As to my favorite short stories, I love "The Lottery" and anything else by Shirley Jackson. I don't believe anyone has mentioned "The Lady or the Tiger?" by Frank Stockton. I also really enjoy the stories in the Kurt Vonnegut collection Welcome to the Monkey House, especially "More Stately Mansions."
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