CHAPTER VI. THE ARTISTIC GROUP: THE REAL SHORT-STORY 395-478

I. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL WEIRD TALE--Origin--The School of Terror--Poe, Stevenson, Maupassant, and others--Suggestions on writing a weird tale--Material and method--Form--Examples 398

II. STORY THAT EMPHASIZES CHARACTER AND ENVIRONMENT--Kipling--Mary E. Wilkins Freeman--Hamlin Garland--Bret Harte--Suggestions and precautions--The "Character": Overbury and Hall--Novel of Manners--Trollope's Cathedral Town Studies--Examples 426

III. STORY THAT EMPHASIZES CHARACTER AND EVENTS--Difference between character-place story and character-events story--Component elements of this type--A scrapbook suggestion--Other suggestions--Examples 455