Title: The Elements of the Short Story
Description: The legend of Sleepy Hollow, by W. Irving
Rip Van Winkle, by W. Irving
Irving as a story writer
The great stone face, by N. Hawthorne
Ethan Brand, by N. Hawthorne
Hawthorne as a story writer
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W), by E. A. Poe
The murders in the Rue Morgue, by E. A. Poe
Poe as a story writer
The diamond lens, by F.-J. O'Brien
The man without a country, by E. E. Hale
The outcasts of Poker Flat, by F. B. Harte
Some recent stories
Subjects: American Short stories, Short story, American Horror tales, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, Fiction, gothic fiction, hermitages, heroic romances, horror, horror tales, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, short stories, tarns
People: Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Edgar Allan Poe