Great American Short Stories

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Anthology contains: The legend of Sleepy Hollow -- Rip Van Winkle -- The spectre bridegroom -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) [Rappaccini's daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W) [The fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) The gold bug -- [Pit and the pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [The cask of amontillad](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) Captain Kidd's money -- Benito Cereno -- The lightning-rod man -- The diamond lens -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The £1,000,000 bank-note -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg -- The luck of Roaring Camp -- The outcasts of Poker Flat -- Tennessee's partner -- [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) a horseman in the sky -- [The Damned Thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W/The_Damned_Thing) The turn of the screw -- The jolly corner -- The courting of Sister Wisby -- The Hiltons' holiday -- The love-philtre of Ikey Schoenstein -- The gift of the Magi -- Tobin's palm -- Springtime a la carte -- The furnished room -- The rembrandt -- The moving finger -- The recovery -- Maggie: a girl of the streets -- The open boat -- The upturned face -- The clemency of the court -- Lou, the prophet -- A night at Greenway Court -- The white silence -- The son of the wolf -- The men of forty-mile -- In a far country -- Babylon revisited -- [A Rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14950108W/A_Rose_for_Emily) Big two-hearted river -- Flight.

subjects: short stories,  horror tales,  horror,  inquests,  coroners,  mountain lions,  History,  Fiction,  United States Civil War,  Classic Literature,  hanging,  Confederacy,  Union,  Satanism,  Devil,  open_syllabus_project,  short story,  Puritans,  catechism,  tradition,  change,  death,  allegory,  nonlinear narrative,  gentleman's agreements,  recluses,  Juvenile audience,  civil war,  American Civil War,  Confederate States of America,  American fiction,  American Horror tales,  American literature,  American Short stories,  Children's fiction,  fear,  Horror stories,  pendulums,  Spanish Inquisition,  Crime,  Detective and mystery stories,  Juvenile fiction,  Revenge,  Social life and customs,  Manners and customs,  burial vaults,  catalepsy,  dragons,  gothic fiction,  hermitages,  heroic romances,  hysteria,  knights,  maces,  psychogenic death,  tarns

People: Hugh Morgan,  William Harker,  Peyton Farquhar,  Goodman Brown,  Faith Brown,  Goody Cloyse,  Emily Grierson,  Homer Barron,  Mr. Grierson,  Tobe,  Colonel Sartoris,  Father Time,  Montresor,  Fortunato,  Luchresi,  Lady Fortunato,  Giacomo Rappaccini,  Giovanni Guasconti,  Beatrice Rappaccini,  Roderick Usher,  Madeline Usher,  Ethelred

Places: United States,  Alabama,  Owl Creek Bridge,  New England,  Salem Village,  Massachusetts,  Jefferson,  Mississippi,  Yoknapatawpha County,  Toledo,  Padua,  India,  Italy,  University of Padua

Times: 19th century,  1861-1865,  1600s,  Antebellum era,  1861-65,  Carnival