The Penguin Book of American Short Stories

By Bret Harte, Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Henry James, O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, Bernard Malamud, Truman Capote, Stephen Crane, Sherwood Anderson, J. Cochrane, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Updike, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, James Cochrane, Jack London, Ring Lardner, Cochrane, James.

Subjects: Boys, short stories, burial vaults, catechism, short story, horror, Puritans, heroic romances, Devil, Short stories, american, catalepsy, Copyists, American Horror tales, gothic fiction, classic literature, tarns, American Short stories, Securities industry, horror tales, Satanism, Fiction, Children's fiction, dragons, hermitages, maces, psychogenic death, history and criticism, knights, Psychology, Young men, hysteria

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