Title: Achievements in Fiction
Description: The lament ; A trifling occurrence ; The lady with the dog ; Ward no. 6 / Anton Chekhov --
The demon lover ; The Tommy Crans ; All saints ; The shadowy third / Elizabeth Bowen --
Four meetings ; The beast in the jungle ; The real thing ; The pupil / Henry James --
The miser ; Eternal triangle ; Masculine protest ; The holy door / Frank O'Connor --
The blind man ; The rocking-horse winner ; The woman who rode away / D.H. Lawrence --
The maid's shoes ; Angel Levine ; Naked nude ; The prison / Bernard Malamud --
Caleb and me ; Previous condition ; The rockpile / James Baldwin --
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) / Edgar Allan Poe --
[The minister's black veil](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455342W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
My landlady / Guy de Maupassant --
[The boarding house](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073259W) / James Joyce --
The circular ruins / Jorge Luis Borges --
The artificial nigger / Flannery O'Connor --
The engagement party / Robert Boles.
Subjects: Short stories, Mothers and daughters, Fiction, Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, Marriage, short story, sextons, clergy, abbeys, American fiction, American horror tales, daggers, gothic fiction, Hematidrosis, horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds
Places: Dublin, Ireland, Milford meeting house
People: Mrs. Mooney, Polly Mooney, Mr. Doran, Zack Bowen, Mr. Hooper, Elizabeth, Prince Prospero