Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle (1820) Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug (1842) The Purloined Letter (1845) Nathaniel Hawthorne: Howe's Masquerade (1838) The Birthmark (1843) Francis Bret Harte: The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1869) Robert Louis Stevenson: The Sire de Malétroit's Door (1878) Markheim (1885) Rudyard Kipling: Wee Willie Winkie (1888)