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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 Robert Neilson Stephens

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Mabel Osgood Wright

by Leonard Merrick

by Thomas Hardy

by Alice Brown

by Charles Dickens

by Carmen Sylva

by Don Marquis

by Robert Barr

by Prosper Mérimée

by Zona Gale

by J. Smeaton (Joseph Smeaton) Chase

by Various Authors

by Richard Magruder

by Jules Renard

by Helen Ashe Hays

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Various Authors

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Alfred de Musset

by Anonymous

by Georg Busse-Palma

by Jeannette Augustus Marks

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Frank Belknap Long

by Royal Dixon

by Anthony Hope

by Various Authors

by Djuna Barnes

by F. Burge (Frances Burge) Griswold

by George V. (George Vere) Hobart

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Ben Ames Williams

by Greye La Spina

by Robert Sheckley

by Dick Purcell

by Guy de Maupassant

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Various Authors

by William John Locke

by Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone) Burpee

by Emile Bergerat

by L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney

by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

by Robert Sheckley

by Frank R. Stockton

by Manly Wade Wellman

by Marcel Schwob

by Mara L. (Mara Louise) Pratt-Chadwick, Louise Lamprey

by Jesse Lynch Williams

by Lawrence F. Willard

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Margaret Collier Graham

by Various Authors

by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Morley Roberts

by Keith Laumer

by Carl Jacobi

by R. R. (Russell Robert) Winterbotham

by H. L. (Horace Leonard) Gold

by Zsigmond Móricz

by Ted White, Terry Carr

by Mark Twain

by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell

by David Mason

by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by comte de Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

by Rudyard Kipling

by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

by William Tenn

by Clara H. Holmes

by Ruth Lamb

by Randall Garrett, Robert Silverberg

by John Breck

by Randall Garrett

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Giovanni Boccaccio

by Rudyard Kipling

by Gilbert Parker

by Maria Rieck-Müller

by Rudyard Kipling

by Fritz Leiber

by Mrs. Burton Harrison

by A. L. O. E.

by Mark Twain

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Various Authors