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| The Egg (from The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life in Tales and Poems, 1921) | |
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| An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (from The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. II, 1909) | |
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| The Enchanted Bluff (from Harper's Weekly, 1909) | |
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| A Malefactor (from The Witch and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett, 1918) | |
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| A Pair of Silk Stockings (from Vogue magazine, 1897) | |
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| The Veteran (from The Little Regiment and Other Episodes of the American Civil War, 1896) | |
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| The Apparition of Mrs. Veal (from a standard edition, c. 1705) | |
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| Nobody's Story (from the periodical Household Words, 1853) | |
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| If I Were a Man (from Physical Culture magazine, 1914) | |
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| Squire Petrick's Lady (from A Group of Noble Dames, 1891) | |
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| The Luck of Roaring Camp (from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches, 1870) | |
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| Dr. Heidegger's Experiment (from Twice-told Tales, 9th. ed., 1837) | |
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| A Ghost Story (from The Idler, a monthly journal, 1892) | |
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| A White Heron (from A White Heron and Other Stories, 1886) | |
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| A Country Doctor (translated from a standard German edition, 1919) | |
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| Wee Willie Winkie (from Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories, 1899) | |
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| Sanctuary (from Forum magazine, 1930) | |
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| Second Best (from The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, 1914) | |
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| The White Silence (from The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North, 1900) | |
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| Germans at Meat (from In a German Pension, 1911) | |
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| A Piece of String (from The Works of Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories, 1903) | |
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| The Open Window (from Beasts and Super-Beasts, 1914) | |
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| The Furnished Room (from The Four Million, 1906) | |
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| With Other Eyes (translated from a standard Italian edition, 1901) | |
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| The Cask of Amontillado (from a standard edition, 1846) | |
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| The Coffin-Maker (from The Prose Tales of Alexander Poushkin, 1916) | |
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| The Three Hermits (from a standard edition, n.d.) | |
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| The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (from Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old, 1875) | |
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| The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes (from The Pall Mall Budget, a weekly, 1895) | |
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| The Sphinx Without a Secret (originally published as "Lady Alroy" in The World magazine, 1887) | |