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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 Pansy

by Ernest Pérochon

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Martti Wuori

by Douglass Sherley

by L. J. Stecher Jr.

by Ricarda Huch

by Rudyard Kipling

by William Merriam Rouse

by Jack Sharkey

by Laura Rountree Smith
by Jim Harmon

by Teodor de Wyzewa

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Prosper Mérimée

by Zsigmond Móricz

by Friedrich Gerstäcker, Holger Drachmann, Jonas Lie

by Kyösti Wilkuna

by Rudyard Kipling

by Frank R. Stockton

by Guy de Maupassant

by Rabindranath Tagore

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Rainer Maria Rilke

by King of Navarre consort of Henry II Queen Marguerite

by Franz Kafka

by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

by Bret Harte

by Algernon Blackwood, Wilfred Wilson

by William Hope Hodgson

by Louisa May Alcott

by Klara Stroebe

by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

by Fritz Leiber

by Olive Schreiner

by Leonid Andreyev

by Algernon Blackwood

by Charles Dickens

by Edith Wharton

by Various Authors

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

by Gustave Flaubert

by Wilhelm Hauff

by Anonymous

by Rudyard Kipling

by Israel Zangwill

by Carl Ewald

by Beatrice Harraden

by Edwin Lefevre

by Silas Xavier Floyd

by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

by Anonymous

by Guy de Maupassant

by Sarah Orne Jewett

by Herman Heijermans

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by John Fox Jr.

by Eugene Field

by William Alexander Fraser

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

by Various Authors

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Ada M. Marzials

by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

by István Tömörkény

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by George Manville Fenn

by Etta Blaisdell McDonald, Mary Frances Blaisdell

by Various Authors

by Winston K. (Winston Kinney) Marks

by C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth

by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán

by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

by Various Authors

by Zona Gale

by G. Basil (George Basil) Barham

by Henry Harland

by Robert F. Young

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Alfred Döblin

by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

by Winston K. (Winston Kinney) Marks

by Idah Meacham Strobridge

by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

by Henri Murger

by Abby Morton Diaz

by Gilbert Parker

by Henry James

by Palmer Cox

by John De Courcy, Dorothy De Courcy

by Emilio De Marchi

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