Legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving --
Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Fall of the House of Usher --
Murders in the Rue Morgue --
Purloined letter / Edgar Allen Poe --
Benito Cereno / Herman Melville --
Man without a country / Edward Everett Hale --
Lady, or the tiger / Frank R. Stockton --
Celebrated jumping from of Calaveras County --
Man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain --
Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte --
Marjorie Daw / Thomas Bailey Aldrich --
An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce --
Turn of the screw / Henry James --
Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the Tar Baby / Joel Chandler Harris --
A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett --
Story of the other wise man / Henry Van Dyke --
Return of a private / Hamlin Garland --
Mission of Jane / Edith Wharton --
Furnished room / O. Henry --
A deal in wheat / Frank Norris --
Open boat / Stephen Crane --
Lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser --
Paul's case / Willa Cather --
To build a fire / Jack London --
I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson --
Golden homeymoon / Ring Lardner --
Afternoon of a faun / Edna Ferber --
Humoresque / Fannie Hurst --
Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken --
Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter --
Big blonde / Dorothy Parker --
Secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber.
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner --
Devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét --
Snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway --
Lost boy / Thomas Wolfe --
Red pony / John Steinbeck --
Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
Imagine kissing Pete / John O'Hara --
Daring young man on the flying trapeze / William Saroyan --
Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty --
Christ in concrete / Pietro Di Donato --
Country husband / John Cheever --
Magic barrel / Bernard Malamud --
A silver dish / Saul Bellow --
Lottery / Shirley Jackson --
There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury --
Welcome to the monkey house / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. --
A Christmas memory / Truman Capote --
Tell me how long the train's been going / James Baldwin --
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor --
Pigeon feathers / John Updike --
Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates.