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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 Erkki Kivijärvi

by Jack London

by Ralph Williams

by Jean de La Fontaine

by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

by Bret Harte

by Bryce Walton

by Charles D. Cunningham

by Charles V. De Vet

by Runar Schildt

by B. Traven

by Kálmán Mikszáth

by Zacharias Topelius

by Emil Fredrik Nervander

by Arvi Järventaus

by Paul Leicester Ford

by Kálmán Mikszáth

by Henry W. Patterson

by Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman) Weinbaum

by Édouard Laboulaye

by Lemuel Ely Quigg

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Ambrose Bierce

by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

by Fritz Leiber

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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

by A. G. (Apraham Garabed) Seklemian

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

by Thomas Ingoldsby

by Guy de Maupassant

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Louisa May Alcott

by Various Authors

by Joseph Conrad

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Ralph Adams Cram

by Howard Pyle, Katharine Pyle

by Washington Irving

by Sarah Orne Jewett, active 19th century Frances Lee, C. S. Sleight

by Machado de Assis

by Bret Harte

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Ethel Twycross Foster

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Various Authors

by Johnny Gruelle

by Percy J. Billinghurst

by William Dean Howells

by Ian Maclaren

by Zealia B. (Zealia Brown) Bishop, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Various Authors

by Mrs. Henry Wood

by Jerome Bixby

by John Fox Jr.

by Louis Becke

by Leopoldo Alas

by Ernest Glanville

by Stephen Hudson

by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

by Various Authors

by Eugene Field

by Oliver Onions

by Ray Bradbury

by Henry Hasse

by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

by Anonymous

by Émile Zola

by Willis Boyd Allen

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Trindade Coelho

by Edith Howes

by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti

by António Patrício

by Maurice Level

by Felipe Trigo

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Alexandre Herculano

by Max Pemberton

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Ellen C. (Ellen Creathorne) Clayton

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Josephine Daskam Bacon