Eight stories from master American writers of the 19th century. They vary from sinister tales by Ambrose Bierce -why is that window boarded up?- and a reflective moment in the life of a woman without children, forced to look after children, to classic short stories by O. Henry and Stephen Crane. An elegiac description of an eclipse by James Fenimore Cooper. Read with sensitivity and skill by Garrick Hagon and Liza Ross.