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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 W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler

by Howard Roger Garis

by Various Authors

by Visconde de Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay Taunay

by Leonard Rubin

by Lajos Biró

by Fritz Leiber

by Alan Edward Nourse

by Charles L. Fontenay

by Sarah Knowles Bolton

by Malcolm Jameson

by Gyula Krúdy

by Various Authors

by Harold Frederic

by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

by Ottomar Enking, Anna Croissant-Rust, Rudolf Greinz, Wilhelm Schussen, Ludwig Thoma

by Various Authors

by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

by Will H. Grattan

by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Detlev von Liliencron, Friedrich Spielhagen, Ernst von Wildenbruch

by Pauline Hann

by Jerome Bixby

by Lajos Biró

by H. B. (Horace Bowne) Fyfe

by B. Traven

by B. J. Rogers

by Randall Garrett

by Giambattista Bazzoni

by Kauppis-Heikki

by L. Onerva

by Emil Lassinen

by Mór Jókai, Antonio de Trueba

by Mór Jókai

by Johannes Alfthan

by István Petelei

by Wilkie Collins

by Agatha Christie

by Donn Byrne

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Morgan Robertson

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Louisa May Alcott

by Gertrude P. Dyer

by Menglong Feng

by Willa Cather

by Jean Ingelow

by Mengchu Ling

by Constance Fenimore Woolson

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Rudyard Kipling

by Various Authors

by O. Henry

by Rolf Boldrewood

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

by Cynthia Stockley

by Ludovic Halévy

by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

by Richard Le Gallienne

by Baron Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Brabourne

by Théophile Gautier

by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

by Mrs. Angus W. Hall

by Rudyard Kipling

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

by William Carleton

by Alfred Noyes

by Anthony Trollope

by M. Y. Halidom

by William Crooke, W. H. D. (William Henry Denham) Rouse

by Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody) Hale

by Guy Wetmore Carryl

by Mrs. W. K. Clifford

by Various Authors

by Louis Becke

by Rudyard Kipling

by Various Authors

by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
by Israel Zangwill

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

by Robert Gordon Anderson

by Mary De Morgan

by Antonio Ghislanzoni

by Richard Harding Davis

by Mrs. (Pamela Chandler) Colman

by George Alfred Townsend

by Arthur Bowie Chrisman

by Mrs. Molesworth

by Maud Lindsay

by Rosalie Koch

by Ray Bradbury

by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats