Perhaps his first collection of stories, "Twice-Told Tales", was printed in scarlet letters?
[DOC] [TLE] Twice-Told Tales (Modern Library Classics): Nathaniel Hawthorne ... [PAR] This volume of short stories and shorter works by Nathaniel Hawthorne was ... 
perhaps his best short stories, and later came classic novels like "The Scarlet ... a 
story by repeating the title in capital letters, like Jonathan Edwards delivering ... 
collection of short stories anonymously in the 1830's, first published in local 
papers.