Title: The Rinehart Book of Short Stories
Description: [The fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) / Edgar Allan Poe
[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mademoiselle Fifi / Guy De Maupassant
The Sire de Malétroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson
The kiss / Anton Chekhov
The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling
The open boat / Stephen Crane
The lagoon / Joseph Conrad
Mother / Sherwood Anderson
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
[Clay](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18179205W) / James Joyce
Her first ball / Katherine Mansfield
The Devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét
The colonel's lady / Somerset Maugham
Flight / John Steinbeck --
Spotted horses / William Faulkner
The catbird seat / James Thurber
Petrified man / Eudora Welty
Subjects: Short stories, Nouvelles, American Horror tales, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, Fiction, gothic fiction, hermitages, heroic romances, horror, horror tales, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Satanism, short story, Puritans, catechism, Devil, Children's fiction, Boys, Pottery, Art pottery, Modern Art, Halloween, The Bohemian Girl
Places: New England, Salem Village, Massachusetts, Joe's house, bakery
People: Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Goodman Brown, Faith Brown, Goody Cloyse, Devil, Maria, Joe, Michael Balfe
Time periods: 1600s