Title: American 24-Karat Gold
Description: Ripe figs / Kate Chopin --
A worn path / Eudora Welty --
Yoruba / Migene Gonzalez-Wippler --
The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber --
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / Edgar Allen Poe --
There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury --
Bone girl / Joseph Bruchac --
[An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce --
Strong temptations-strategic movements-the innocents beguiled / Mark Twain --
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allan Poe --
To build a fire / Jack London --
Salvation / Langston Hughes --
The lady or the tiger? / Frank Stockton --
No name woman / Maxine Hong Kingston --
Marlene's adventures / Anita Endrezze --
Good country people / Flannery O'Connor --
[The story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin --
Gifts of the magi / O. Henry --
The ransom of Red Chief / O. Henry --
The wonderful old gentleman / Dorothy Parker --
Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston --
[Dr. Heidegger's experiment](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455515W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
[A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner --
[Masque of the Red Death ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) / Edgar Allan Poe --
The bell-tower / Herman Melville.
Subjects: American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder, short stories, abbeys, American fiction, daggers, Hematidrosis, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, short story, shrouds, Revenge, freedom, selfhood, self-fulfilment, meaning of love, Supernatural, Paranormal fiction, Fountain of youth (Legendary place), tradition, change, death, allegory, nonlinear narrative, gentleman's agreements, recluses, Mentally ill women, Report writing, Problems, exercises, College readers, American Short stories, Rhetoric, English language, Reading, History, civil war, hanging, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Union
Places: Mallard residence, Fountain of Youth, Florida, Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County, United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge
People: Peyton Farquhar, Prince Prospero, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Louise Mallard, Brently Mallard, Josephine, Richards, Dr. Heidegger, Colonel Killigrew, Mr. Medbourne, Mr. Gascoigne, Widow Wycherley, Sylvia Ward, Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris
Time periods: Carnival, 19th century, Antebellum era, 1861-65