The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Mademoiselle Fifi / Guy De Maupassant -- The Sire de Malétroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The kiss / Anton Chekhov -- The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- The lagoon / Joseph Conrad -- Mother / Sherwood Anderson -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Clay / James Joyce -- Her first ball / Katherine Mansfield -- The Devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét -- The colonel's lady / Somerset Maugham -- Flight / John Steinbeck --Spotted horses / William Faulkner -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- Petrified man / Eudora Welty