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• xii • Introduction (The American Short Story) • essay by Thomas K. Parkes
• 1 • Rip Van Winkle: A Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker • (1850) • short story by Washington Irving (variant of Rip Van Winkle 1819)
• 13 • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow • (1819) • novelette by Washington Irving
• 37 • Rappaccini's Daughter • [Rappaccini • 1] • (1844) • novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 61 • The Fall of the House of Usher • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe [as by Edgar Allen Poe]
• 76 • The Murders in the Rue Morgue • [Chevalier Dupin] • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe [as by Edgar Allen Poe]
• 103 • The Purloined Letter • non-genre • [Chevalier Dupin] • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe [as by Edgar Allen Poe]
• 202 • The Lady, or the Tiger? • (1939) • short story by Frank R. Stockton (variant of The Lady or the Tiger? 1882)
• 284 • The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 291 • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 299 • The Turn of the Screw • [The Turn of the Screw] • (1898) • novel by Henry James
• 381 • Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the Tar Baby • (1879) • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 385 • A White Heron • (1886) • short story by Sarah Orne Jewett
• 394 • The Story of the Other Wise Man • (1896) • novelette by Henry van Dyke
• 445 • The Furnished Room • (1904) • short story by O. Henry
• 451 • A Deal in Wheat • (1902) • short story by Frank Norris
• 480 •
  The Lost Phœbe^?The Lost Phoebe
  • short story by Theodore Dreiser (variant of The Lost Phoebe 1916)
• 583 • Silent Snow, Secret Snow • (1932) • short story by Conrad Aiken
• 656 • The Devil and Daniel Webster • (1936) • short story by Stephen Vincent Benét
• 754 • Gimpel the Fool • (1953) • short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer (trans. of Gimpl tam 1945)
• 841 • The Country Husband • (1954) • novelette by John Cheever
• 862 • The Magic Barrel • (1958) • short story by Bernard Malamud
• 899 • The Lottery • (1948) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• 907 • There Will Come Soft Rains • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 913 • Welcome to the Monkey House • (1968) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• 990 • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? • (1966) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates