Contains:
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving --
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe --
Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville --
Baker's bluejay yarn / Mark Twain --
Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte --
The real thing / Henry James --
The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce --
A village singer / Mary Wilkins Freeman --
Mrs.Ripley's trip / Hamlin Garland --
A muncipial report / O. Henry --
Roman fever / Edith Wharton --
The open boat / Stephen Crane --
Unlighted lamps / Sherwood Anderson --
The man who saw through heaven / Wilbur Daniel Steele --
Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken --
He / Katherine Anne Porter --
The catbird seat / James Thurber --
The little wife / William March --
Wash / William Faulkner --
The snake / John Steinbeck --
To the mountains / Paul Horgan --
Over the river and through the wood / John O'Hara --
The wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark --
Powerhouse / Eudora Welty --
In greenwich there are many gravelled walks / Hortense Calisher.