Top 10 Short Stories, The - The US Authors of the North-East

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. The North-East region of the United States has a long and excellent history of literary works from its talented sons and daughters. Although some travelled the continent, and even further afield, their roots are unfailingly of this American landscape, its people and their shared experiences. 1 - The Top 10 - US Authors of the North-East - An Introduction 2 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 1 by Herman Melville 4 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 2 by Herman Melville 5 - The Rats in the Walls by H P Lovecraft 6 - The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 7 - The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte 8 - The Fullness of Life by Edith Wharton 9 - The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving 10 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 11 - The Open Boat by Stephen Crane 12 - The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell