Bedtime stories

By Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Diana Secker Tesdell, 村上春樹, Vladimir Nabokov, Neil Gaiman

Subjects: Short stories, catechism, short story, Union, Puritans, Devil, Juvenile audience, Children's stories, American Civil War, Fairy Tales, Fiction Classics, Satanism, Fables, civil war, Fiction, Children's fiction, Histoires pour enfants, Confederate States of America, bedtime stories, History, Classic Literature, Contes de fées, hanging

Description: Contains: The thing in the forest / A.S. Byatt -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Troll bridge / Neil Gaiman -- The poacher / Ursula K. LeGuin -- The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen -- The bottle imp / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The industrious tailor / William Maxwell -- The dragon / Vladimir Nabokov -- Night / Guy de Maupassant -- Where the tides ebb and flow / Lord Dunsany -- The night face up / Julio Cortázar -- [An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W) / Ambrose Bierce -- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells -- The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- The curious case of Benjamin Button / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- A visit / Steven Millhauser -- The tiger's bride / Angela Carter -- The dancing dwarf / Haruki Murakami.