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• xiii • Introduction (Tellers of Tales) • essay by W. Somerset Maugham
• 21 • Rip Van Winkle • (1819) • short story by Washington Irving
• 57 • The Gray Champion • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 95 • The Gold-Bug • non-genre • (1843) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 169 • The Three Strangers • non-genre • (1883) • novelette by Thomas Hardy
• 186 • The Jolly Corner • (1908) • novelette by Henry James
• 245 • Markheim • (1885) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 319 • The Happy Prince • (1888) • short story by Oscar Wilde
• 326 • The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans • non-genre • [Sherlock Holmes] • (1908) • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle [as by A. Conan Doyle]
• 436 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 444 • The Coach • (1909) • short story by Violet Hunt
• 511 • The Door in the Wall • (1906) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 532 • Tobermory • (1909) • short story by Saki
• 538 • To Build a Fire • non-genre • (1908) • short story by Jack London
• 824 • A. V. Laider • (1916) • short story by Max Beerbohm
• 1131 • Silent Snow, Secret Snow • (1932) • short story by Conrad Aiken