Washington Irving (1783–1859)
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–64)
YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49)
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
Herman Melville (1819–91)
BARTLEBY
Mark Twain (1835–1910)
THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG
Francis Bret Harte (1836–1902)
THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT
Ambrose Bierce (1842–?1914)
ONE OF THE MISSING
Henry James (1843–1916)
THE REAL THING
O. Henry (1862–1910)
AN UNFINISHED STORY
Stephen Crane (1871–1900)
THE BRIDE COMES TO YELLOW SKY
Willa Cather (1873–1947)
NEIGHBOR ROSICKY
Jack London (1876–1916)
TO BUILD A FIRE
Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)
DEATH IN THE WOODS
Ring Lardner (1885–1933)
WHO DEALT?
Katherine Anne Porter (b. 1890)
FLOWERING JUDAS
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
THE RICH BOY
William Faulkner (1897–1962)
DELTA AUTUMN
Ernest Hemingway (1898–1961)
THE BATTLER
Bernard Malamud (1914–1986)
THE JEWBIRD