Short Story through Years (1840 - 1849)


  • 1840 Z. Marcas by Honoré de Balzac (July)

  • 1840 The Mummy's Foot by Théophile Gautier (September)
  • 1841 A Descent into the Maelström by Edgar Allan Poe (May) (DNFed)
  • 1842 The Mystery of Marie Rogêt by Edgar Allan Poe

  • 1842 The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
  • 1843 Diddling, Considered as One of the Exact Sciences by Edgar Allan Poe ⭐⭐
  • 1843 The Birth-Mark by Nathaniel Hawthorne (March) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  • 1843 The Celestial Railroad by Nathaniel Hawthorne (May)
  • 1843 The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe (August 19) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  • 1844 A Tale of the Ragged Mountains by Edgar Allan Poe (April)
  • 1844 Thou Art the Man by Edgar Allan Poe (November)
  • 1844 The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe (December)
  • 1844 Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (December) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  • 1844 Morning on the Wissahiccon by Edgar Allan Poe
  • 1844 The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe
  • 1844 The Corsican Brothers by Alexandre Dumas
  • 1844 Gaudissart II by Honoré de Balzac

  • 1845 P.'s Correspondence by Nathaniel Hawthorne (April)
  • 1845 Some Words with a Mummy by Edgar Allan Poe (April)
  • 1845 The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier by Walt Whitman (June)
  • 1845 The Imp of the Perverse by Edgar Allan Poe (July)
  • 1845 The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether by Edgar Allan Poe (November)
  • 1845 The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe (December)
  • 1845 Carmen by Prosper Mérimée
  • 1846 Loss of Breath by Edgar Allan Poe (January 3)
  • 1846 The Artist of the Beautiful by Nathaniel Hawthorne (June)
  • 1846 Mr. Prokharchin by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • 1847 The Jew by Ivan Turgenev ⭐
  • 1848 Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • 1848 A Christmas Tree and a Wedding by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • 1848 An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • 1848 White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • 1849 Hop-Frog by Edgar Allan Poe (March 17) ⭐⭐⭐⭐


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