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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 Rudyard Kipling

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Denis Diderot

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Frank R. Stockton

by Manly Wade Wellman

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

by Nelson S. Bond

by W. A. (William Albert) Frisbie

by Ross Rocklynne

by Josephine Siebe

by Richard Harding Davis

by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

by Selma Lagerlöf

by James R. Adams

by Various Authors

by Enrico Castelnuovo

by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

by Zsigmond Móricz

by Randall Garrett

by Evelyn E. Smith

by Giovanni Boccaccio

by Watson Parker

by Gustave Flaubert

by Jerome Bixby

by Amalia Guglielminetti

by Enrico Castelnuovo

by B. J. Rogers

by Santeri Alkio

by Selma Lagerlöf

by Albert Engström

by Edgar Allan Poe

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Ruth McEnery Stuart

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Juliana Horatia Ewing

by Brander Matthews

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

by Lyn Venable

by Fialho de Almeida

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Various Authors

by Anthony Pelcher

by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

by Bret Harte

by Frances Jenkins Olcott

by Jack London

by Ambrose Bierce
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by Henry James

by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by Louis Becke

by Wilhelm Hauff

by Louis Becke

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Barry Pain

by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by E. K. (Eldred Kurtz) Means

by Guy de Maupassant

by Ambrose Bierce

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Vernon Lee

by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

by Zona Gale

by Guy de Maupassant

by L. Adams (Lily Adams) Beck

by Hildebrand

by Leopoldo Alas

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Elsie Singmaster

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Various Authors

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

by Unknown

by Lloyd Osbourne

by Edmond Hamilton

by Clara Dillingham Pierson

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Anthony Trollope

by Various Authors

by Myra Kelly

by Nellie L. McClung

by Robert de Bonnières

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

by Louisa May Alcott

by Hugo Salus

by Isabel Thompson