Types of the Short Story

By Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton, Washington Irving, Heydrick, Benjamin Alexander, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, J. M. Barrie, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Everett Hale

Subjects: Short stories, American fiction, fear, horror, Horror stories, American Horror tales, American Short stories, Fiction, Children's fiction, American literature, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, Short story

Description: The tale: Rip Van Winkle, by W. Irving. Story of dramatic incident: The ambitious guest, by N. Hawthorne. Story of local color: Namgay Doola, by R. Kipling. Love story: Two of them, by J. Barrie. Story of romantic adventures: The Sir De Maletroit's door, by R. L. Stevenson. Story of terror: [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W), by E. A. Poe. Story of the supernatural: The haunted and the haunters; or, The house and the brain, by E. Bulwer-Lytton. Humorous story: My double and how he undid me, by E. E. Hale. Character sketch: Cree Queery and Mysy Drolly, by J. M. Berrie. Animal story: Moti Gij mutineer, by R. Kipling. Apologue: Doctor Heidegger's experiment, by N. Hawthorne. Story of ingenuity: The goldbug, by E. A. Poe. Psychological story: Markhelm, by R. L. Stevenson.