An Illusion in Red and White by Stephen Crane

Of all the stories heard and told by the newspaper men on the Cuban blockade, this murder was the one that most struck our narrator.  A man kills his wife in full sight of his four children, and yet they all testify that it was someone else, that the murderer looked quite different from their father.  Speculation about exactly how the man managed to convince his children of his innocence forms the basis of our story.

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Manacled by Stephen Crane

In this tiny gem of a story Stephen Crane packs in the suspense of one of our most terrifying cultural tropes.  He uses grim foreshadowing and plucky alliteration to spin the reader, before she can catch her breath to the inevitable conclusion.  Not for the agoraphobic listener!

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