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• The Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• Loveliness: A Story • (1899) • short fiction by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps [as by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward]
• The Debt • non-genre • (1909) • short story by Edith Wharton
• Second Variety • [Claws • 1] • (1953) • novelette by Philip K. Dick [as by Phillip K. Dick]
• The Story of an Hour • (1979) • short story by Kate Chopin (variant of The Dream of an Hour 1894)
• The Country of the Blind • (1904) • novelette by H. G. Wells
• A Jury of Her Peers • (1917) • short fiction by Susan Glaspell
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Magic Egg • (1894) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
• The Man That Killed His Neighbors • (1847) • short fiction by Lydia Maria Child
• The Boy Orator of Zepata City • (1892) • short fiction by Richard Harding Davis
• The Memory Clearing House • (1892) • short story by Israel Zangwill
• The Grain Ship • non-genre • (1909) • short story by Morgan Robertson
• The Married Man • (1921) • short fiction by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
• Marcia • (1876) • short fiction by Rebecca Harding Davis
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button • (1922) • novelette by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Last of the Garrison • (1906) • short fiction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• Bulls and Bears on Skor Vhean • (1901) • short fiction by John Oxenham
• The Line of Least Resistance • (1899) • short fiction by Morgan Robertson
• Xingu • non-genre • (1911) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• Portrait of a Philosopher • (1911) • short fiction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• A Truth Party • (1906) • short fiction by Harriet A. Nash
• Joint Owners in Spain • (1895) • short fiction by Alice Brown
• The White Maniac • (1867) • short fiction by Mary Fortune (variant of The White Maniac: A Doctor's Tale)
• Her Story • (1872) • short story by Harriet Prescott Spofford
• The Woman Who Tried to be Good • (1913) • short fiction by Edna Ferber
• The Yellow Wallpaper • (1942) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)