My kinsman: Major Mollineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
[Black cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) / Edgar Allan Poe --
Benito Cereno / Herman Melville --
Baker's bluejay yarn / Mark Twain --
The coup de grâce / Ambrose Bierce --
The beast in the jungle / Henry James --
The return of a private / Hamlin Garland --
Roman fever / Edith Wharton --
The open boat / Stephen Crane --
The heathen / Jack London --
I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson --
A day's work / Katharine Anne Porter --
Dry September / William Faulkner --
The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway.