Irving: Rip Van Winkle (1820) -- Poe: The Gold Bug (1842); The Purloined Letter (1845) -- Hawthorne: Howe's Masquerade (1838); The Birthmark (1843) -- Harte: The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1869) -- Stevenson: The Sire de Malétroit's Door (1878); Markheim (1885) -- Kipling: Wee Willie Winkie (1888).