The technique of the short story -- The adventure of the German student / Washington Irving -- Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte -- One of the missing / Ambrose Bierce -- Paste / Henry James -- The two churches of 'Quawket / H.C. Bunner -- My patonic sweetheart / Mark Twain -- Mrs. Ripley's trip / Hamlin Garland -- Roads of destiny / O. Henry -- There are smiles / Ring lardner -- Your obituary, well written / Conrad Aiken -- How beautiful with shoes / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- That evening sun / William Faulkner -- Blind Eve / Walter D. Edmonds -- A day in New York / Lois Montross -- After the storm / Ernest Hemingway -- Golden wedding / Ruth Suckow -- The ladies call on Mr. Pussick / Owen Francis -- Three bites at a story / Burges Johnson -- The pardon / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- Arcadia recalled / Josephine Johnson -- A cold day / William Saroyan -- With the fog / Kathleen Morehouse -- Deep water man / Gerald Warner Brace -- Job's tears / James Still -- Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson -- Ten / Ferner Nuhn -- Rachel and her children / Frances Newman -- A trip to Czardis / Edwin Granberry -- No one my grief can tell / Nancy Hale -- A terrible strange bed / Wilkie Collins -- The signal-man / Charles Dickens -- A lodging for the night / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Tony Kytes, the arch-deceiver / Thomas Hardy -- The Pig and Whistle / George Gissing -- Salta pro nobis / John Galsworthy -- A little cloud / James Joyce -- The blind man / D.H. Lawrence -- The horses -- James Stephens -- The handsome lady / A.E. Coppard -- The nap / Walter de la Mare -- Mrs. Packletide's tiger / H.H. Munro (Saki) -- The mockbeggar / Sheila Kaye-Smith -- Taking the veil / Katherine Mansfield -- Lonely lives / Seán O'Faoláin -- A passion in the desert / Honoré de Balzac -- M. Sequin's goat / Alphonse Daudet -- Two friends / Guy de Maupassant -- The manuscript of a village doctor / Anatole France -- Autumn / August Strindberg -- Veronika / Theodor Storm -- The New Year's Eve confession / Hermann Sudermann -- The blind Geronimo and his brother / Arthur Schnitzler -- The parcel / Arnold Zweig -- The hungry / Thomas Mann -- Grief / Anton Chekhov -- The district doctor / Ivan S. Turgenev -- One autumn night / Maxim Gorky -- The man you couldn't kill / S. Sergeev-Tzensky -- The house of agony / Luigi Pirendello -- The trap / Ignazio Silone