The tale: Rip Van Winkle / W. Irving -- Story of dramatic incident: The ambitious guest / N. Hawthorne -- Story of local color: Namgay Doola / R. Kipling -- Love story: Two of them / J. Barrie -- Story of romantic adventures: The Sire de Maletroit's door / R. L. Stevenson -- Story of terror: The pit and the pendulum / E. A. Poe -- Story of the supernatural: The haunted and the haunters; or, The house and the brain / E. Bulwer-Lytton -- Humorous story: My double and how he undid me / E. E. Hale -- Character sketch: Cree Queery and Mysy Drolly / J. M. Berrie -- Animal story: Moti Guj-mutineer / R. Kipling -- Apologue: Doctor Heidegger's experiment / N. Hawthorne -- Story of ingenuity: The gold bug / E. A. Poe -- Psychological story: Markheim / R. L. Stevenson.