Creative Collection of American Short Stories, TheFeaturing authors from Edgar Allan Poe to Alice Walker, and spotlighting themes from Gothic horror to frontier humor, this illustrated anthology presents 17 great American short stories. Reviews There is no discernible theme in this eclectic anthology of brief fiction, but who needs a theme when the collection includes dark stories such as Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," Willa Cather's "Paul's Case," and Joyce Carol

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