| 100% | ELLISON | 7 | Harlan —, author of 1988 short story collection Angry Candy |
| 50% | DANRHODES | 9 | Author of 2001 short story collection Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love |
| 49% | CARVER | 6 | Raymond —, author of 1983 short story collection Cathedral |
| 49% | KARENRUSSELL | 12 | Author of the short-story collection "Orange World and Other Stories": 2 wds. |
| 48% | ANDERSON | 8 | Sherwood —, author of 1919 short story collection Winesburg, Ohio |
| 47% | DAUDET | 6 | Alphonse —, author of 1869 short story collection Lettres de Mon Moulin |
| 46% | HORNUNG | 7 | E W —, author of 1899 short story collection The Amateur Cracksman |
| 45% | RUNYON | 6 | Damon —, author of the short story collections More Than Somewhat, Furthermore and Take It Easy |
| 44% | OFFPLANET | 9 | 1988 short story collection by Clifford D Simak |
| 43% | JACOBS | 6 | W W —, English author of 1902 short story collection The Lady of the Barge |
| 42% | EAPOE | 5 | Author of Gothic short stories, in short |
| 42% | POE | 3 | Author of the short story "Loss of Breath" |
| 41% | ASET | 4 | Frank O'Connor short story collection "___ of Variations" |
| 41% | SAKI | 4 | Pen name of H H Munro, author of 1914 short story collection Beasts and Super-Beasts |
| 40% | POE | 3 | American author of macabre short stories |
| 40% | RUNYON | 6 | Damon —, author of short story collections More Than Somewhat and Take It Easy |
| 40% | NIN | 3 | Author of the story collection "Little Birds" |
| 40% | BRYANWASHINGTON | 15 | Author of the 2019 short-story collection “Lot” and the 2020 novel “Memorial” |
| 39% | ORR | 3 | Author of the short story on which All About Eve was based, Mary ___ |
| 39% | CHIANG | 6 | Ted ___, author of the best-selling short-story collection "Exhalation" |
| 39% | UNCLETOMS | 9 | With 27-Across, Richard Wright short story collection of 1938: 2 wds. |
| 38% | OLIVERONIONS | 12 | Author of ghost story collections Widdershins and The Painted Face |
| 38% | ASIMOV | 6 | Isaac —, author of 1950 story collection I, Robot |
| 38% | OCONNOR | 7 | Frank —, author of 1944 story collection Crab Apple Jelly |
| 38% | POE | 3 | 19th-century author of creepy short stories |
| 38% | POE | 3 | 19th-century author of macabre short stories |
| 37% | YATES | 5 | Richard —, author of 1962 story collection Eleven Kinds of Loneliness |
| 37% | LEFANU | 6 | J Sheridan —, author of 1872 story collection In a Glass Darkly |
| 37% | BABEL | 5 | Isaac —, Russian author of story collection Red Cavalry executed in 1940 |
| 37% | JAMES | 5 | M R —, author of 1904 collection Ghost Stories of an Antiquary |