The Penguin Book of American Short Stories

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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

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

People: Goodman Brown,  Faith Brown,  Goody Cloyse,  Devil,  Roderick Usher,  Madeline Usher,  Ethelred,  Bartleby,  Turkey,  Nippers,  Ginger Nut,  John Jacob Astor,  Cicero

Places: New England,  Salem Village,  Massachusetts,  New York,  Wall Street

Times: 1600s