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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 Malcolm Jameson

by Bento Moreno

by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

by Murray Leinster

by William Tenn

by Washington Irving

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Mark Twain

by H. B. (Horace Bowne) Fyfe

by Gyula Krúdy

by James Anderson Peddie

by Teuvo Pakkala

by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by Maurice Baudin

by Väinö Kataja

by Jonatan Reuter

by Emil Lassinen

by Mór Jókai

by Zacharias Topelius

by Väinö Kataja

by L. Onerva
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by H. A. (Harold Austin) Ripley

by Josephine Siebe

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Fanny E. (Fanny Eliza) Coe

by Serafín Estébanez Calderón

by Various Authors

by Rudyard Kipling

by Rudyard Kipling

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by O. Henry

by Shiying Mu

by Rudyard Kipling

by Katharine Pyle

by Guy de Maupassant

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

by Philip K. Dick

by Various Authors

by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

by Fitz James O'Brien

by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker

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

by Abbie Phillips Walker

by Various Authors

by Emily Mayer Higgins

by Grant Allen

by John Habberton

by Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody) Hale

by Various Authors

by Brander Matthews
by Israel Zangwill

by Washington Irving, Edward Everett Hale, Nathaniel Hawthorne

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

by Robert Neilson Stephens

by Rachel Harriette Busk

by Richard Harding Davis

by Percy Fitzpatrick

by Leonard Merrick

by Carmen Sylva

by Neil Munro

by Don Marquis

by E. K. (Eldred Kurtz) Means

by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

by Various Authors

by Bampton Hunt

by J. Smeaton (Joseph Smeaton) Chase

by Richard Magruder

by Tabitha Grimalkin

by Arlo Bates

by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

by Helen Ashe Hays

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Edward Eggleston

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Richard Stockham

by Francis L. (Francis Lister) Hawks

by Annie Eliot Trumbull

by Robert Gordon Anderson

by Washington Irving

by Guy de Maupassant

by Jeannette Augustus Marks

by Charles Egbert Craddock