Read The Yellow Wallpaper

Ichabod Crane rides home past the churchyard and meets the Headless Horseman; the first American ghost story.

A murderer insists on his own sanity while the old man's heartbeat gets louder under the floorboards.

Three wishes on a mummified paw, and the knocking at the door after the second one.

An officer demonstrates the machine that writes a condemned man's sentence into his back over twelve hours.

A village gathers on a June morning for the annual draw; the New Yorker lost subscribers over what the draw is for.

Five hundred pounds a year and a room with a lock; Woolf's essay on women and writing.

One is not born but becomes a woman; de Beauvoir's 1949 foundation of feminism.

Viktor Frankl in Auschwitz and the psychology he built from it; those with a why can bear any how.