| ICEPALACE | F. Scott Fitzgerald short story, with "The" |
| HER | "Bernice Bobs ___ Hair" (Fitzgerald short story) |
| NOVELLA | Set in Nevada, love a Fitzgerald short story (7) |
| DEAD | Joyce short story, with 'The' |
| LOTTERY | 1948 Shirley Jackson classic short story, with "The" |
| BOTTLEIMP | Robert Louis Stevenson short story, with "The" |
| MALTESECAT | Kipling short story, with "The" |
| SAKI | Author who famously ended a short story with the line "Romance at |
| TELLTALEHEART | With "The," 1843 short story with a famously unreliable narrator |
| PARABLE | Short story with a message, in the Bible (7) |
| KNIGHTSTALE | Chaucer story, with "The" |
| TELLTALEH | Classic 1843 story, with "The" |
| CONTINENTALOP | Hammett detective story, with The |
| CATCHERINTHERYE | Holden Caulifield's story with "The" |
| TARBABY | Uncle Remus story, with "The" |
| GAGED | Assessed a funny story with the editor (5) |
| MASQUEOFTHEREDDEATH | Another story, with "The" |
| ONETHATGOTAWAY | It's a "long" story, with "the" |
| GOLDBUG | Edgar Allan Poe story, with "The" |
| REDSHOES | Classic Hans Christian Andersen story, with "The" |
