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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 Sherwood Anderson

by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

by L. Adams (Lily Adams) Beck

by Hildebrand

by Oliver Onions

by Ray Bradbury

by Henry Hasse

by William Alexander Fraser

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

by Anonymous

by John Graham Bower

by Émile Zola

by Unknown

by Helen Huber

by Edmond Hamilton

by G. Ranger (Gwendolyn Ranger) Wormser

by Various Authors

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

by António Patrício

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth

by Nellie L. McClung

by Various Authors

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Henry Slesar

by Keith Laumer

by Guy de Maupassant

by Maurice Thompson

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

by Winston K. (Winston Kinney) Marks

by George Manville Fenn

by W. A. (William Albert) Frisbie

by Abby Morton Diaz

by Richard Harding Davis

by Alfred Coppel

by Arvid Järnefelt

by Florence Marryat

by Various Authors

by Enrico Castelnuovo

by Charles Battell Loomis

by Georges Fourest

by Emilio De Marchi

by Minna Canth, August Blanche, Camille Dehas, Emilie Tegtmeyer

by Anonymous

by Sylvia Jacobs

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Evelyn E. Smith

by Charles D. Cunningham

by Juhani Aho

by Salvatore Di Giacomo

by Alfredo Panzini

by Enrico Castelnuovo

by Max Dauthendey

by Charles L. Fontenay

by Paul Leicester Ford

by Friedrich Gerstäcker, Holger Drachmann, Jonas Lie

by Hjalmar Söderberg

by Selma Lagerlöf

by Albert Engström

by Kyösti Wilkuna

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Adalbert Stifter

by Juliana Horatia Ewing

by Mei Yuan

by Lemuel Ely Quigg

by John Milne

by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

by Bret Harte

by Lyn Venable

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

by Fialho de Almeida

by Arthur Machen

by Klara Stroebe

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Ouida

by Lafcadio Hearn

by Rudyard Kipling

by William Bottrell

by Joseph Conrad

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

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Charles Dickens

by Lucy Sprague Mitchell

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman