The legend of Sleepy Hollow -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Young Goodman Brown -- The minister's black veil -- The fall of the house of Usher -- The tell-tale heart -- The purloined letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bartleby / Herman Melville -- My contraband / Louisa May Alcott -- The celebrated jumbing frog of Caleveras County / Mark Twain -- The luck of Roaring Camp -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- An occurrance at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- The real right thing -- The best in the jungle / Henry James -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Athenaise / Kate Chopin -- The revolt of "Mother" / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The wife of his youth / Charles W. Chestnut -- The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The other two -- Autres temps / Edith Wharton -- The ransom of Red Chief -- The gift of the Magi / O. Henry -- The open boat -- The bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane -- Build a fire / Jack London -- The sculptor's funeral -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- Sophistication -- The egg / Sherwood Anderson -- Bernice bobs her hair -- The diamond as big as The Ritz / F. Scott Fitzgerald