Great American Short Stories

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Washington Irving -- The legend of sleepy hollow -- The spectre bridegroom -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) [Rappaccini's Daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W) Edgar Allan Poe -- [The murders in the Rue Morgue](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41072W) [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W) [The pit and the pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [The cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Captain Kidd's money -- Herman Melville -- Benito Cereno -- The lightning-rod man -- Fitz-James O'Brien -- The diamond lens -- Mark Twain -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The stolen white elephant -- The man who corrupted Hadleyburg -- Bret Harte -- The luck of roaring camp -- Tennessee's partner -- Ambrose Bierce -- [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) A horseman in the sky -- Henry James -- The turn of the screw -- The jolly corner -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- The courting of Sister Wisby -- The Hiltons' holiday -- O. Henry -- The love-philtre of Ikey Schoenstein -- One dollar's worth -- Art and the bronco -- The furnished room -- Calloway's code -- Edith Wharton -- The Rembrandt -- The recovery -- Stephen Crane -- Maggie -- The bride comes to yellow sky -- Willa Cather -- The clemency of the court -- Lou, the prophet -- A night at Greenway Court -- Jack London -- To the man on trail -- The son of the wolf -- The wife of a king -- William Faulkner -- [That Evening Sun](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080863W/That_Evening_Sun) Ernest Hemingway -- The killers -- John Steinbeck -- The leader of the people -- Flannery O'Connor -- A late encounter with the enemy.