Title: A Book of Short Stories
Description: Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle.	
Nathaniel Hawthorne: [The minister's black veil](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455342W). Ethan Brand.	
Edgar Allan Poe: [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W), the gold-bug.	
Charles Dickens: The signalman.	
Frank Stockton: The lady, or the tiger.	
Thomas Hardy: The three strangers.	
Robert Louis Stevenson: Will o' the mill, The Sire de Maletroit's door.	
Sir James Matthew Barrie: The courting of T'nowhead's Bell.	
O. Henry: Phœbe.	
Rudyard Kipling: The man who was.
Subjects: American Short stories, English Short stories, Short stories, short story, sextons, clergy, American Horror tales, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, Fiction, gothic fiction, hermitages, heroic romances, horror, horror tales, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns
People: Mr. Hooper, Elizabeth, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred