American Christmas stories

How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar / Bret Harte

Kate's Choice / Louisa May Alcott

A letter from Santa Claus / Mark Twain

Found after thirty-five years-Lucy Marshall's letter / J. B. Moore Bristor

From the garden of a friend / Mary Agnes Tincker

Christmas every day / William Dean Howells

Thurlow's Christmas story / John Kendrick Bangs

Klondike Christmas / Jack London

A little pilgrim / Stephen Crane

An old-time Christmas / Paul Laurence Dunbar

General Washington / Pauline E. Hopkins

The kid hangs up his stocking / Jacob Riis

The set of Poe / George Ade

A chaparral Christmas gift / O. Henry

According to Solomon / Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The picture puzzle / Edward Lucas White

A Christmas party that prevented a split in the church / Margaret Black

The Christmas magazines : and the inevitable story of the snowbound train

Christmas afternoon / Robert Benchley

The sermon in the cradle / W.E.B. Du Bois

Holiday thoughts / Ben Hecht

Bethlehem, Dec. 25 / Heywood Broun

The tree that didn't get trimmed / Christopher Morley

A criminal's Christmas / Sherwood Anderson

A visit from Saint Nicholas / James Thurber

One Christmas Eve / Langston Hughes

The three wise guys / Damon Runyon

Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N and the magi / Leo Rosten

Santa Claus in a white man/ John Henrik Clarke

Back for Christmas / John Collier

No room at the inn / Edna Ferber

Two people he never saw / John McNulty

The butler's Christmas Eve / Mary Roberts Rienhart

A Christmas story / Katherine Anne Porter

"Santa Clo" comes to La Cuchilla / Abelardo Díaz Alfaro

The gift / Ray Bradbury

Christmas trombone / Raymond E. Banks

The wild wood / Mildred Clingerman

From Raising Demons / Shirley Jackson

The loudest voice / Grace Paley

The Christmas of the phonograph records / Mari Sandoz

The big rock candy figgy pudding pitfall / Joan Didion

The carol sing / John Updike

The night before Christmas / Tomás Rivera

The Santa Claus compromise / Thomas M. Disch

The Christmas kid / Pete Hamill

The war beneath the tree / Gene Wolfe

Track of a legend / Cynthia Felice

And all through the house / Ed McBain

The impossible snowsuit of Christmas past / George V. Higgins

The H Street sledding record / Ron Carlson

Buzz / Steve Rasnic

Fish cheeks / Amy Tan

Checkup / Ann Petry

Three wise guys / Sandra Cisneros

Inn / Connie Willis

Ixchel's tears / José R. Nieto

Reb Kringle / Nathan Englander

A young candy daughter / Nalo Hopkinson.