About this book
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving
[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) / Edgar Allan Poe
The lightning-rod man / Herman Melville
The diamond lens / Fitzjames O'Brien
The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain
The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte
[Damned Thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W) / Ambrose Bierce
The turn of the screw / Henry James
The Hiltons' holiday / Sarah Orne Jewett
The gift of the Magi / O. Henry
The moving finger / Edith Wharton
The open boat / Stephen Crane
Lou, the prophet / Willa Cather
The men of Forty Mile / Jack London
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald
[A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W)/ William Faulkner
Big two-hearted river / Ernest Hemingway
Flight / John Steinbeck
Subjects
short storieshorror taleshorrorinquestscoronersmountain lionsAmerican Horror talesburial vaultscatalepsydragonsFictiongothic fictionhermitagesheroic romanceshysteriaknightsmacespsychogenic death