| CATCHERINTHERYE | Holden Caulifield's story with "The" |
| KNIGHTSTALE | Chaucer story, with "The" |
| TELLTALEH | Classic 1843 story, with "The" |
| CONTINENTALOP | Hammett detective story, with The |
| DEAD | Joyce short story, with 'The' |
| TARBABY | Uncle Remus story, with "The" |
| GAGED | Assessed a funny story with the editor (5) |
| LOTTERY | 1948 Shirley Jackson classic short story, with "The" |
| BOTTLEIMP | Robert Louis Stevenson short story, with "The" |
| MASQUEOFTHEREDDEATH | Another story, with "The" |
| ONETHATGOTAWAY | It's a "long" story, with "the" |
| GOLDBUG | Edgar Allan Poe story, with "The" |
| MALTESECAT | Kipling short story, with "The" |
| ICEPALACE | F. Scott Fitzgerald short story, with "The" |
| REDSHOES | Classic Hans Christian Andersen story, with "The" |
| PEARL | Steinbeck story (with "the") |
| LOSTRLD | Classic sci-fi story, with "The" |
| BLACKCAT | Edgar Allan Poe story, with "The" |
| SAKI | Author who famously ended a short story with the line "Romance at |
| CAULFIELD | Holden, the narrator in JD Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye (9) |
