Ambrose Bierce - "An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge"
William Faulkner - "Barn Burning" ; "A Rose for Emily"
Nathaniel Hawthorne - "Young Goodman Brown"; "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"
Ernest Hemingway - "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"; "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"; "Hills Like White Elephants"
O. Henry - "The Gift of the Magi"; "The Ransom of Red Chief"
Washington Irving - "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Shirley Jackson - "The Lottery"
James Joyce - "Araby"
Franz Kafka - "Metamorphosis"; "The Hunger Artist"
D.H. Lawrence - "The Rocking Horse Winner"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
Herman Melville - "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
Flannery O'Connor - "A Good Man is Hard to Find"; "Everything that Rises Must Converge"; "Good Country People"
Edgar Allan Poe - "The Cask of Amontillado"; "Fall of the House of Usher"; "The Masque of Red Death"; "The Pit and the Pendulum"
Katherine Ann Porter - "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
John Steinbeck - "The Red Pony"
James Thurber - "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
Eudora Welty - "Why I Live at the P.O."; "The Worn Path"; "The Petrified Man"