8. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

7. A&P by John Updike

6. Revelation by Flannery O’Connor

5. Cathedral by Raymond Carver

4. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

3. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor

2. Redemption by John Gardner

1. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne