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• xiii • Introduction (The Bedside Book of Famous American Stories) • essay by Angus Burrell and Bennett Cerf [as by Angus Burrell and Bennett A. Cerf]
• 3 • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow • (1819) • novelette by Washington Irving
• 28 • Rip Van Winkle • (1819) • short story by Washington Irving
• 44 • The Great Stone Face • (1850) • novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 60 • Rappaccini's Daughter • [Rappaccini • 1] • (1844) • novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 85 • The Murders in the Rue Morgue • [Chevalier Dupin] • (1841) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 113 • The Pit and the Pendulum • (1842) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 126 • The Purloined Letter • non-genre • [Chevalier Dupin] • (1844) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 207 • The Man Without a Country • non-genre • (1863) • novelette by Edward Everett Hale
• 248 • The Lady, or the Tiger? • (1884) • short story by Frank R. Stockton (variant of The Lady or the Tiger? 1882)
• 260 • The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg • non-genre • (1899) • short story by Mark Twain
• 299 • Marjorie Daw • non-genre • (1873) • short story by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• 337 • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 345 • The Boarded Window • non-genre • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 425 • The Boy Who Drew Cats • [Japanese Fairy Tale Series • 23] • (1898) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
• 493 • The Furnished Room • (1904) • short story by O. Henry
• 525 • The Bar Sinister • (1902) • novelette by Richard Harding Davis
• 571 • A Deal in Wheat • (1902) • short story by Frank Norris
• 580 • The Open Boat • non-genre • (1897) • novelette by Stephen Crane
• 601 • The Lost Phoebe • (1916) • short story by Theodore Dreiser
• 681 • Paul's Case • non-genre • (1905) • short story by Willa Cather
• 698 • To Build a Fire • non-genre • (1908) • short story by Jack London
• 744 • Porcelain Cups • [Biography of the Life of Manuel] • (1919) • short story by James Branch Cabell
• 759 • Vain Oblations • non-genre • (1914) • short story by Katharine Fullerton Gerould
• 775 • The Murder on Jefferson Street • non-genre • (1935) • novelette by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• 927 • The Man Who Saw Through Heaven • non-genre • (1925) • short story by Wilbur Daniel Steele
• 959 • Silent Snow, Secret Snow • (1932) • short story by Conrad Aiken
• 993 • The Arrow • (1927) • novelette by Christopher Morley
• 1117 • The Body of an American • non-genre • short story by John Dos Passos
• 1122 • A Rose for Emily • non-genre • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner
• 1130 • The Killers • non-genre • (1927) • short story by Ernest Hemingway
• 1317 • Biographical Notes (The Bedside Book of Famous American Stories) • essay by Angus Burrell and Bennett Cerf [as by Angus Burrell and Bennett A. Cerf]