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Great American Short Stories

Mary Stegner, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte

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Contains: Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Young Goodman Brown (opens in a new tab) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bartleby the scrivener (opens in a new tab) / Herman Melville -- Baker's bluejay yarn / Mark Twain -- Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte -- The real thing / Henry James -- The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce -- A village singer / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Mrs.Ripley's trip / Hamlin Garland -- A muncipial report / O. Henry -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Unlighted lamps / Sherwood Anderson -- The man who saw through heaven / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken -- He / Katherine Anne Porter -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- The little wife / William March -- Wash (opens in a new tab) / William Faulkner -- The snake / John Steinbeck -- To the mountains / Paul Horgan -- Over the river and through the wood / John O'Hara -- The wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- Powerhouse / Eudora Welty -- In greenwich there are many gravelled walks / Hortense Calisher.

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  • American fiction
  • short stories
  • American Horror tales
  • burial vaults
  • catalepsy
  • dragons
  • Fiction
  • gothic fiction
  • hermitages
  • heroic romances
  • horror
  • horror tales
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