Title: The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
Description: The legend od Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving
[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne
[The fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) / Edgar Allan Poe
[Bartleby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) / Herman Melville
The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain
The outcasts of Poker Flat / Francis Bret Harte
One of the missing / Ambrose Bierce
The real thing / Henry James
The unfinished story / O. Henry
The bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane
Neighbor Rosicky / Willa Cather
To build a fire / Jack London
Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson
Who dealt? / Ring Lardner
Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter
The rich boy / F. Scott Fitzgerald
Delta autumn / William Faulkner
The battler / Ernest Hemingway
The jewbird / Bernard Malamud
Children on their birthdays / Truman Capote
Wife-wooing / John Updike
Subjects: American Short stories, Short stories, american, Satanism, Fiction, short story, Puritans, catechism, Devil, Children's fiction, Boys, American Horror tales, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, gothic fiction, hermitages, heroic romances, horror, horror tales, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, short stories, tarns, Young men, Copyists, classic literature, Psychology, Securities industry, history and criticism
Places: New England, Salem Village, Massachusetts, New York, Wall Street
People: Goodman Brown, Faith Brown, Goody Cloyse, Devil, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Bartleby, Turkey, Nippers, Ginger Nut, John Jacob Astor, Cicero
Time periods: 1600s