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Step into a world where every story opens a different door: from candlelit Victorian romance to razor-sharp mystery, from ghostly whispers to flashes of wit and humor from across the globe. This bookshelf is a whirlwind tour of short fiction at its most vivid, gathering voices from England, America, Russia, Scandinavia, France, Spain, and beyond. In just a few pages at a time, expect suspense, passion, surprise, and unforgettable glimpses of lives far from your own.

by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

by Algernon Blackwood

by Charles Herbert Sylvester

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Robert Louis Stevenson

by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson

by Giovanni Boccaccio

by Charles A. Eastman

by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

by Gilbert Parker

by Joel Chandler Harris
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by O. Henry

by Guy de Maupassant

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

by Stephen Crane

by Bret Harte

by Harold Frederic

by Charles Dickens

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Various Authors

by Jack London

by Fanny Fern

by Mary Spring Walker

by Richard Harding Davis

by Anonymous

by George Parsons Lathrop

by Wilhelm Hauff

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile

by Mary Russell Mitford

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Effie Mae Hency Williams

by H. Beam Piper

by Robert Sheckley

by Don Peterson
by Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, Zacharias Topelius

by Eugene Field

by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

by Henry Van Dyke

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Guy de Maupassant

by Washington Irving

by Randall Garrett

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Mary Hallock Foote

by Pétrus Borel

by Keith Laumer

by Christoph von Schmid

by Mark Twain

by Isabelle Eberhardt

by Miriam Allen De Ford

by Various Authors

by Jerome Bixby

by Gilbert Parker

by Gorch Fock

by Various Authors

by E. Mittleman

by William Merriam Rouse

by Larry Eisenberg
by Jim Harmon

by Édouard Laboulaye

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by Carl Sandburg

by Charles Dickens

by Hallie Erminie Rives, Charles Dickens

by Rudyard Kipling

by Rudyard Kipling

by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Philip K. Dick

by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

by Mary De Morgan

by Algernon Blackwood, Wilfred Wilson

by Thomas Ingoldsby

by William Makepeace Thackeray

by Mór Jókai

by Katherine Mansfield

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

by Charles Herbert Sylvester

by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

by Rudyard Kipling

by Edith Wharton

by Various Authors