| A | B |
|---|
| The Black Cat | Edgar Allen Poe |
| An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | Ambrose Bierce |
| The Life You Save May Be Your Own | Flannery O'Connor |
| A Rose for Emily | William Faulkner |
| The Masque of the Red Death | Edgar Allen Poe |
| The Cask of Amontillado | Edgar Allen Poe |
| Dr. Heidegger's Experiment | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Ambrose Bierce | He disappeared while reporting on the Mexican Revolution. |
| He bought back all of his first books and destroyed them | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Flannery O'Connor | As a child, this author had a pet chicken that could walk forward and backward |
| Edgar Allen Poe | He may have died from rabies |
| His neighbors included Thoreau and Emerson | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | He changed the spelling of his name to distinguish himself from his descendants |
