The Elements of the Short Story

By Fitz-James O'Brien, Edward Everett Hale, Jr., Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Bret Harte

Subjects: short stories, burial vaults, horror, heroic romances, catalepsy, American Horror tales, gothic fiction, tarns, American Short stories, horror tales, Fiction, dragons, hermitages, maces, psychogenic death, knights, Short story, hysteria

Description: The legend of Sleepy Hollow, by W. Irving Rip Van Winkle, by W. Irving Irving as a story writer The great stone face, by N. Hawthorne Ethan Brand, by N. Hawthorne Hawthorne as a story writer [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W), by E. A. Poe The murders in the Rue Morgue, by E. A. Poe Poe as a story writer The diamond lens, by F.-J. O'Brien The man without a country, by E. E. Hale The outcasts of Poker Flat, by F. B. Harte Some recent stories