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The tale: Rip Van Winkle, by W. Irving. Story of dramatic incident: The ambitious guest, by N. Hawthorne. Story of local color: Namgay Doola, by R. Kipling. Love story: Two of them, by J. Barrie. Story of romantic adventures: The Sir De Maletroit's door, by R. L. Stevenson. Story of terror: [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W), by E. A. Poe. Story of the supernatural: The haunted and the haunters; or, The house and the brain, by E. Bulwer-Lytton. Humorous story: My double and how he undid me, by E. E. Hale. Character sketch: Cree Queery and Mysy Drolly, by J. M. Berrie. Animal story: Moti Gij mutineer, by R. Kipling. Apologue: Doctor Heidegger's experiment, by N. Hawthorne. Story of ingenuity: The goldbug, by E. A. Poe. Psychological story: Markhelm, by R. L. Stevenson.
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Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
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Washington Irving
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Heydrick, Benjamin Alexander
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Rudyard Kipling
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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J. M. Barrie
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Edward Everett Hale
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