Great American Short Stories

By Bret Harte, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Edith Wharton, Henry James, O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, William Faulkner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, John Steinbeck, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Sarah Orne Jewett, Herman Melville, Flannery O'Connor, Jack London

Subjects: short stories, catechism, short story, fear, Union, Puritans, African Americans, Horror stories, Crime, Devil, race relations, Juvenile audience, American Civil War, American Horror tales, Confederacy, Manners and customs, husband and wife, American Short stories, Satanism, civil war, open_syllabus_project, Fiction, United States Civil War, Children's fiction, Social life and customs, Revenge, Confederate States of America, American literature, pendulums, Juvenile fiction, Spanish Inquisition, aristocracy, History, Classic Literature, Detective and mystery stories, hanging

Description: Washington Irving -- The legend of sleepy hollow -- The spectre bridegroom -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) [Rappaccini's Daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W) Edgar Allan Poe -- [The murders in the Rue Morgue](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41072W) [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W) [The pit and the pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [The cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Captain Kidd's money -- Herman Melville -- Benito Cereno -- The lightning-rod man -- Fitz-James O'Brien -- The diamond lens -- Mark Twain -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The stolen white elephant -- The man who corrupted Hadleyburg -- Bret Harte -- The luck of roaring camp -- Tennessee's partner -- Ambrose Bierce -- [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) A horseman in the sky -- Henry James -- The turn of the screw -- The jolly corner -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- The courting of Sister Wisby -- The Hiltons' holiday -- O. Henry -- The love-philtre of Ikey Schoenstein -- One dollar's worth -- Art and the bronco -- The furnished room -- Calloway's code -- Edith Wharton -- The Rembrandt -- The recovery -- Stephen Crane -- Maggie -- The bride comes to yellow sky -- Willa Cather -- The clemency of the court -- Lou, the prophet -- A night at Greenway Court -- Jack London -- To the man on trail -- The son of the wolf -- The wife of a king -- William Faulkner -- [That Evening Sun](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080863W/That_Evening_Sun) Ernest Hemingway -- The killers -- John Steinbeck -- The leader of the people -- Flannery O'Connor -- A late encounter with the enemy.