| 100% | CHESTERTON | 10 | G K —, author of 1911 story collection The Innocence of Father Brown |
| 48% | INNOCENCEOF | 11 | & 7D The —, 1911 volume of short stories by G K Chesterton |
| 47% | NIN | 3 | Author of the story collection "Little Birds" |
| 45% | OLIVERONIONS | 12 | Author of ghost story collections Widdershins and The Painted Face |
| 41% | KENNEDY | 7 | A L —, author of story collections All the Rage and What Becomes |
| 41% | OHENRY | 6 | Pen name of William Sidney Porter, author of short story collections Roads of Destiny and The Four Million |
| 40% | KARENRUSSELL | 12 | Author of the short-story collection "Orange World and Other Stories": 2 wds. |
| 40% | HORNUNG | 7 | E W —, author of 1899 short story collection The Amateur Cracksman |
| 39% | DANRHODES | 9 | Author of 2001 short story collection Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love |
| 39% | FLAMBEAU | 8 | Reformed criminal and assistant to Father Brown in stories by G K Chesterton |
| 39% | TALES | 5 | "___ From Earthsea," collection of fantasy stories by American author Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 38% | JACOBS | 6 | W W —, English author of 1902 short story collection The Lady of the Barge |
| 38% | YATES | 5 | Richard —, author of 1962 story collection Eleven Kinds of Loneliness |
| 38% | RUNYON | 6 | Damon —, author of the short story collections More Than Somewhat, Furthermore and Take It Easy |
| 37% | ASIMOV | 6 | Isaac —, author of 1950 story collection I, Robot |
| 37% | OCONNOR | 7 | Frank —, author of 1944 story collection Crab Apple Jelly |
| 36% | CHIANG | 6 | Ted ___, author of the best-selling short-story collection "Exhalation" |
| 36% | BRYANWASHINGTON | 15 | Author of the 2019 short-story collection “Lot” and the 2020 novel “Memorial” |
| 36% | LEFANU | 6 | J Sheridan —, author of 1872 story collection In a Glass Darkly |
| 36% | FRANZBOAS | 9 | Author of 1911's The Mind of Primitive Man |
| 36% | ANNECARSON | 10 | Author of the poetry collection “Glass, Irony & God” (1995) |
| 35% | FORESTER | 8 | Author of the Hornblower stories |
| 35% | ANAISNIN | 8 | Author of the erotica collections Delta of Venus and Auletris |
| 35% | RUNYON | 6 | Damon —, author of short story collections More Than Somewhat and Take It Easy |
| 35% | LAMB | 4 | Charles —, author of the 1823 collection Essays of Elia |
| 34% | COLFER | 6 | The Land of Stories series author Chris __ |
| 34% | BALOO | 5 | Brown bear in 1894 Rudyard Kipling short story collection The Jungle Book |
| 34% | COBBETT | 7 | William —, author of the 1830 collection of observations Rural Rides |
| 34% | EDWARDALBEE | 11 | Author of the absurdist play "The Zoo Story": 2 wds. |