Title: Short Stories
Description: Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving
[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) / Edgar Allan Poe
The lightning-rod man / Herman Melville
The diamond lens / Fitzjames O'Brien
The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain
The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte
[Damned Thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W) / Ambrose Bierce
The turn of the screw / Henry James
The Hiltons' holiday / Sarah Orne Jewett
The gift of the Magi / O. Henry
The moving finger / Edith Wharton
The open boat / Stephen Crane
Lou, the prophet / Willa Cather
The men of Forty Mile / Jack London
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald
[A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W)/ William Faulkner
Big two-hearted river / Ernest Hemingway
Flight / John Steinbeck
Subjects: short stories, horror tales, horror, inquests, coroners, mountain lions, American Horror tales, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, Fiction, gothic fiction, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, tradition, change, death, allegory, nonlinear narrative, gentleman's agreements, recluses, Mentally ill women, Satanism, short story, Puritans, catechism, Devil, Children's fiction, Boys, American Short stories, American fiction, American literature, Collections, Short stories Fiction
Places: New England, Salem Village, Massachusetts, Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County
People: Hugh Morgan, William Harker, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Goodman Brown, Faith Brown, Goody Cloyse, Devil, Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris
Time periods: 1600s, Antebellum era