Rappaccini's daughter / by Nathanial Hawthorne (1804-1864)
The fall of the House of Usher / by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
The £1,000,000 bank-note / by Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The beast in the jungle / by Henry James (1843-1916)
Xingu / by Edith Wharton (1862-1910)
The furnished room / by O. Henry (1862-1910)
The open boat / by Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
A Wagner matinée / by Willa Cather (1873-1947)
The golden honeymoon / by Ring Lardner (1885-1933)
He / by Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
The diamond as big as the Ritz / by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Dry September / by William Faulkner (1897-1962)
A worn path / by Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
The enormous radio / by John Cheever (1912-1982).