Does anyone have any suggestions for out-of-copyright short story collections?
I've been reading old classics as backup backup books on my iPod, when I have no other reading matter to hand, but that's so rare that I think I ought to try short stories instead. I'd like them to be collections so I can count them as a book when I'm done (for reading challenge purposes).
The sorts of things I'd be looking for would be:
The Sherlock Holmes collections - I've already read several of these, but have no idea where I got to in the canon.
Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination - I might give this one a go. I think I've read a lot of the stories separately over the years.
Conan - Again, I'm not really sure what I've read of Howard's Conan stories.
Cthulhu - I don't know if there is a canonical set of collections for Lovecraft? I have the complete works, but that might be too much.
M.R. James - I'm not sure I want to be creeped out in the situations when I'll be reading from the iPod (doctors' waiting rooms, etc.)
Lord Dunsany - Available on Gutenberg, but not actually out-of-copyright in the UK. If I do read them, I'll probably want to keep it quiet, which doesn't work for my reading challenge.
Any other suggestions?