The Rinehart Book of Short Stories

[The fall of the House of Usher]( / Edgar Allan Poe [Young Goodman Brown]( / Nathaniel Hawthorne Mademoiselle Fifi / Guy De Maupassant The Sire de Malétroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson The kiss / Anton Chekhov The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling The open boat / Stephen Crane The lagoon / Joseph Conrad Mother / Sherwood Anderson The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence [Clay]( / James Joyce Her first ball / Katherine Mansfield The Devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét The colonel's lady / Somerset Maugham Flight / John Steinbeck -- Spotted horses / William Faulkner The catbird seat / James Thurber Petrified man / Eudora Welty