The pardoner's tale / Geoffrey Chaucer --
Imp of the Perverse / Edgar Allan Poe --
Hunted down / Charles Dickens --
An honest thief / Fiodor Dostoevski --
God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoi --
Sleepyhead / Anton Chekhov --
Revenge / Guy de Maupassant --
Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The lost special / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --
My favorite murder / Ambrose Bierce --
The stolen bacillus / H.G. Wells --
A retrieved reformation / O. Henry --
The lynching of Jube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar --
Footfalls / Wilbur Daniel Steele --
The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke --
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner --
Back for Christmas / John Collier --
The small assassin / Ray Bradbury.