The first short story writers of the last hundred years are represented in an American anthology Introduction 9(31) Rip Van Winkle 31(22) Washington Irving Young Goodman Brown 53(16) Nathaniel Hawthorne The Fall of the House of Usher 69(23) Edgar Allan Poe Bartleby the Scrivener 92(44) Herman Melville Baker's Bluejay Yarn 136(6) Mark Twain Tennessee's Partner 142(12) Bret Harte The Boarded Window 154(6) Ambrose Bierce The Real Thing 160(31) Henry James A Village Singer 191(17) Mary Wilkins Freeman Mrs. Ripley's Trip 208(14) Hamlin Garland A Municipal Report 222(19) O. Henry Roman Fever 241(16) Edith Wharton The Open Boat 257(30) Men Crane Unlighted Lamps 287(22) Sherwood Anderson The Man Who Saw through Heaven 309(23) Wilbur Daniel Steele Silent Snow, Secret Snow 332(22) Conrad Aiken He 354(13) Katherine Anne Porter The Catbird Seat 367(12) James Thurber The Little Wife 379(15) William March Wash 394(16) William Faulkner The Snake 410(13) John Steinbeck To the Mountains 423(31) Paul Horgan Over the River and through the Wood 454(8) John O'Hara The Wind and the Snow of Winter 462(16) Walter Van Tilburg Clark Powerhouse 478(15) Eudora Welty In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks 493 Hortense Calisher