Great American Short Stories

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[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [The birthmark](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455204W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Rappaccini's daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [The purloined letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Bartleby the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) / Herman Melville -- The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Langhorne Clemens -- [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce -- My friend Bingham / Henry James -- The beast in the jungle / Henry James -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The flight of Betsey Lane / Sarah Orne Jewett -- A new England nun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The revolt of "mother" / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The wife of his youth / Charles W. Chesnutt -- The passing of Grandison / Charles W. Chesnutt -- The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Gift of the magi / William Sydney Porter -- The ransom of Red Chief / William Sydney Porter -- The other two / Edith Wharton -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- To build a fire / Jack London -- Hands / Sherwood Anderson -- The untold lie / Sherwood Anderson -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- Bernice bobs her hair / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The end of something / Ernest Hemingway.

subjects: American Horror tales,  burial vaults,  catalepsy,  dragons,  Fiction,  gothic fiction,  hermitages,  heroic romances,  horror,  horror tales,  hysteria,  knights,  maces,  psychogenic death,  short stories,  tarns,  Satanism,  short story,  Puritans,  catechism,  Devil,  Children's fiction,  Boys,  Social life and customs,  Manners and customs,  Classic Literature,  Crime,  Detective and mystery stories,  Horror stories,  Juvenile fiction,  Revenge,  Mystery and detective stories,  monograms,  Young men,  Copyists,  Psychology,  Securities industry,  history and criticism,  History,  Juvenile audience,  civil war,  hanging,  American Civil War,  Confederate States of America,  Union,  Short stories, american

People: Roderick Usher,  Madeline Usher,  Ethelred,  Goodman Brown,  Faith Brown,  Goody Cloyse,  Devil,  Aylmer,  Georgiana,  Giacomo Rappaccini,  Giovanni Guasconti,  Beatrice Rappaccini,  Montresor,  Fortunato,  Luchresi,  Lady Fortunato,  C. Auguste Dupin (Fictitious character),  C. Auguste Dupin,  Minister D—,  Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon,  Bartleby,  Turkey,  Nippers,  Ginger Nut,  John Jacob Astor,  Cicero,  Peyton Farquhar

Places: New England,  Salem Village,  Massachusetts,  Padua,  India,  Italy,  University of Padua,  Paris,  New York,  Wall Street,  United States,  Alabama,  Owl Creek Bridge

Times: 1600s,  Carnival,  1861-65