These 13 is a collection of short stories

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

 written by William Faulkner

William Faulkner

William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career...

, and dedicated to his first daughter Alabama, who died nine days after her birth on January 11, 1931, and to his wife Estelle. Whilst no longer in print, These 13 is a collector’s item today.

These 13 was Faulkner's first release of short stories and contained the following stories in the order shown below:

• Victory
• Ad Astra
• All the Dead Pilots
• Crevasse
• Red Leaves
  Red Leaves
  "Red Leaves" is a short story by American author William Faulkner. First published in the Saturday Evening Post on October 25, 1930, it was one of Faulkner's first stories to appear in a national magazine. The next year the story was included in These 13, Faulkner's first collection of short stories...
  
  
• A Rose for Emily
  A Rose for Emily
  "A Rose for Emily" is a short story by American author William Faulkner first published in the April 30, 1930 issue of Forum. This story takes place in Faulkner's fictional city, Jefferson, Mississippi, in the fictional county of Yoknapatawpha County...
  
  
• A Justice
• Hair
• That Evening Sun
  That Evening Sun
  "That Evening Sun" is a short story by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1931 on the collection These 13, which included Faulkner's most anthologized story, "A Rose for Emily". "That Evening Sun" is a dark portrait of white Southerners' indifference to the crippling fears of one of...
  
  
• Dry September
  Dry September
  "Dry September" is a short story by William Faulkner. Published in 1931, it describes a lynch mob forming on a hot September evening to avenge an alleged insult or attack upon a white woman by a black watchman, Will Mayes. Told in five parts, the story includes the perspective of the rumored...
  
  
• Mistral
• Divorce in Naples
• Carcassonne