The Shadowy Third and Other Stories

While Glasgow's novels receive more critical attention, scholarship on her stories continues into the twenty-first century.

Lucy Dare chooses the Confederate cause over her fiance's life, revealing his hiding place.

[3] Anthologized as a mystery story, "A Point in Morals" asks readers to unravel the identity of one or multiple murderers and to judge the psychologist's response to the passenger's narrative.

[4] "The Difference" illumines the limitations of wives in the early twentieth century when confronted with their husbands' infidelity.

Often connected to Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher,[6] some scholars group "Jordan's End" with the first four stories of the collection.

The collection includes seven stories: "The Shadowy Third," "Dare's Gift," "The Past," "Whispering Leaves," "A Point in Morals," "The Difference," and "Jordan's End."