
About this book
The lament ; A trifling occurrence ; The lady with the dog ; Ward no. 6 / Anton Chekhov --
The demon lover ; The Tommy Crans ; All saints ; The shadowy third / Elizabeth Bowen --
Four meetings ; The beast in the jungle ; The real thing ; The pupil / Henry James --
The miser ; Eternal triangle ; Masculine protest ; The holy door / Frank O'Connor --
The blind man ; The rocking-horse winner ; The woman who rode away / D.H. Lawrence --
The maid's shoes ; Angel Levine ; Naked nude ; The prison / Bernard Malamud --
Caleb and me ; Previous condition ; The rockpile / James Baldwin --
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) / Edgar Allan Poe --
[The minister's black veil](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455342W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
My landlady / Guy de Maupassant --
[The boarding house](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073259W) / James Joyce --
The circular ruins / Jorge Luis Borges --
The artificial nigger / Flannery O'Connor --
The engagement party / Robert Boles.
Subjects
Short storiesMothers and daughtersFictionChildren's fictionAdventure and adventurersMarriageshort storysextonsclergyabbeysAmerican fictionAmerican horror talesdaggersgothic fictionHematidrosishorrorHorror fiction