Title: The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
Description: Part One: Stories --
Chinua Achebe / Civil Peace --
Sherman Alexie / The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven --
Isabelle Allende / An Act of Vengeance --
Sherwood Anderson / Hands --
Margaret Atwood / Happy Endings --
Isaac Babel / My First Goose --
James Baldwin / Sonny's Blues --Toni Cade Bambara / The Lesson --
Russell Banks / Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat --
Lynda Barry / San Francisco [graphic story] --
Donald Barthelme / At the Tolstoy Museum --
Ann Beattie / Janus --
Alison Bechdel / From Fun Home: "Old Father, Old Artificer" [graphic story] --
Ambrose Bierce / [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) --
Roberto Bolano / Jim --
Jorge Luis Borges / The South --
Tadeusz Borowski / This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen --
T. Coraghessan Boyle / Birnam Wood --
Ray Bradbury / August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains --
Albert Camus / The Guest --
Alejo Carpentier / Journey to The Seed --
Angela Carter / The Kiss --
Raymond Carver / Cathedral --
Raymond Carver / A Small, Good Thing --
Raymond Carver / What We Talk About When We Talk About Love --Willa Cather / Paul's Case --
John Cheever / The Swimmer --
Anton Chekhov / The Darling --
Anton Chekhov / The Lady with the Little Dog --
Kate Chopin / [Désirée's Baby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078777W)
Kate Chopin / [The Story of an Hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W)
Sandra Cisneros / Barbie-Q --
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) / Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County --
Joseph Conrad / Heart of Darkness --
Julio Cortázar / Axolotl --
Stephen Crane / The Open Boat --
Edwidge Danticat / Night Women --
Lydia Davis / Blind Date --
Junot Díaz / How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie --
Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) / The Story of One White Woman Who Married a Chinese --
Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) / Her Chinese Husband --
Larry Eigner / Act --
Ralph Ellison / Battle Royal --
Nathan Englander / What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank --
Louise Erdrich / The Red Convertible --
William Faulkner / [A Rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W)
William Faulkner / That Evening Sun --
F. Scott Fitzgerald / Winter Dreams --
Janet Frame / Two Sheep --
Carlos Fuentes / Pain --
Mary Gaitskill / The Other Place --
Gabriel García Márquez / A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings --
William Gass / A Fugue --
Dagoberto Gilb / Love in L.A. --
Charlotte Perkins Gilman / The Yellow Wallpaper --
Nikolai Gogol / The Overcoat --
Nathaniel Hawthorne / [The Minister's Black Veil](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455342W)
Nathaniel Hawthorne / [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) --
Ernest Hemingway / Hills Like White Elephants --
Zora Neale Hurston / the Gilded Six-Bits --Zora Neale Hurston / Sweat --
Washington Irving / Rip Van Winkle --
Shirley Jackson / The Lottery --
Henry James / The Real Thing --
Sarah Orne Jewett / A White Heron --
Ha Jin / Saboteur --
Denis Johnson / Work --
James Joyce / [Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W)
James Joyce / [The Dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073437W)
Franz Kafka / A Hunger Artist --
Franz Kafka / The Metamorphosis --
Etgar Keret / Not Human Beings --
Jamaica Kincaid / Girl --
Nora Krug / Kamikaze [graphic story] --
Jhumpa Lahiri / Interpreter of Maladies --
D.H. Lawrence / Odour of Chrysanthemums --
D.H. Lawrence / The Rocking Horse Winner --
Ursula K. Le Guin / The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas --
Doris Lessing / To Room 19 --
Clarice Lispector / The Smallest Woman in the World --
Jack London / To Build a Fire --
Katherine Mansfield / Miss Brill --
Bobbie Ann Mason / Shiloh --
Guy de Maupassant / The Necklace --
Herman Melville / [Bartleby, the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W)
Steven Millhauser / Flying Carpets --
Lorrie Moore / Referential --
Alice Munro / Age of Faith --
Haruki Murakami / UFO in Kushiro --
Vladimir Nabokov / Signs and Symbols --
Santiago Nazarian / Fish Spine --
Joyce Carol Oates / The Lady with the Pet Dog --
Joyce Carol Oates / Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? --
Tim O'Brien / The Things They Carried --
Flannery O'Connor / Everything That Rises Must Converge --
Flannery O'Connor / Good Country People --
Flannery O'Connor / A Good Man Is Hard to Find --
Frank O'Connor / Guests of the Nation --
Tillie Olsen / I Stand Here Ironing --
Daniel Orozco / Orientation --
Julie Otsuka / The Children --
Cynthia Ozick / The Shawl --
ZZ Packer / Brownies --
Grace Paley / A Conversation with My Father --
Grace Paley / Mother --
Octavio Paz / My Life with the Wave --
Edgar Allan Poe / [The Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
Edgar Allan Poe / [The Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
Edgar Allan Poe / [The Tell-Tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
Katherine Anne Porter / Maria Concepción --
W.S. Porter (O. Henry) / The Gift of the Magi --
Annie Proulx / Job History --
Jamie Quatro / 1.7 To Tennessee --
Philip Roth / The Conversion of the Jews --
Joe Sacco / From Palestine: Refugeeland [graphic story] --
Marjane Satrapi / From Persepolis: The Veil [graphic story] --
George Saunders / Sticks --
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh / A Brief Encounter with The Enemy --
Leslie Marmon Silko / Yellow Woman --
Art Spiegelman / Prisoner on the Hell Planet: A Case History [graphic story] --
John Steinbeck / The Chrysanthemums --
Amy Tan / Two Kinds --
Leo Tolstoy / The Death of Ivan Ilych --
Jean Toomer / Blood-Burning Moon --
John Updike / A & P --
Luis Alberto Urrea / Father Returns From the Mountain --
Helen Maria Viramontes / Miss Clairol --
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. / Harrison Bergeron --
Alice Walker / Everyday Use --
David Foster Wallace / Everything Is Green --
Eudora Welty / A Worn Path --
Edith Wharton / The Other Two --
John Edgar Wideman / newborn thrown in trash and dies --
William Carlos Williams / The Use of Force --
Tobias Wolff / Bullet in the Brain --
Tobias Wollf / Say Yes --
Virginia Woolf / Kew Gardens --
Richard Wright / The Man Who Was Almost a Man --
Part Two: Commentaries --
Part Three: Casebooks.
Subjects: American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Crime in fiction, Delitos, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic fiction (literary genre), Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder, Murder in fiction, short stories, short story, short stories (single author), burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Revenge, Young men, Copyists, Psychology, Securities industry, history and criticism, 20th century English fiction, British and irish fiction, christian fiction, Christmas, Christmas fiction, Christmas stories, Criticism and interpretation, Daily Express, death, Domestic fiction, English fiction, family life, Family reunions, Stories (texts), The Lass of Aughrim, Three Graces, West Britons, Irish literature, Dublin (ireland), christian, general, sextons, clergy, Satanism, Puritans, catechism, Devil, Boys, tradition, change, allegory, nonlinear narrative, gentleman's agreements, recluses, Mentally ill women, miscegenation, Louisiana Creoles, quadroons, racism, freedom, selfhood, self-fulfillment, meaning of love, History, Juvenile audience, civil war, hanging, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Union, Short story, authorship, self-fulfilment, Imagination
Places: United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge, Mallard residence, Louisiana, L’Abri, Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County, New York, Wall Street, Ireland, Galway, Araby, North Richmond Street, Araby bazaar, Milford meeting house, New England, Salem Village, Massachusetts
People: Peyton Farquhar, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Bartleby, Turkey, Nippers, Ginger Nut, John Jacob Astor, Cicero, Gabriel Conroy, Kate Morkan, Julia Morkan, Mary Jane Morkan, Lily, Gretta Conroy, Molly Ivors, Mr Browne, Freddy Malins, Mrs Malins, Bartell D'Arcy, Patrick Morkan, Michael Furey, Mangan's sister, Mr. Hooper, Elizabeth, Goodman Brown, Faith Brown, Goody Cloyse, Devil, Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris, Armand Aubigny, Désirée, Madame Valmont, Sandrine, La Blanche, Louise Mallard, Brently Mallard, Josephine, Richards
Time periods: Carnival, 1600s, Antebellum era, 19th century, 1861-65, 1861-1865