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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 Bret Harte

by Frank Jewett Mather

by Frank Belknap Long

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Anthony Trollope

by Rudyard Kipling

by Various Authors

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Fritz Leiber

by Mrs. Molesworth

by James Bell Salmond

by Robert Herrick

by Robert Sheckley

by Andrew Robertson

by Sophia Morrison

by Lester Del Rey

by Amy Walton

by Jean M. (Jean May) Thompson

by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

by Various Authors

by Louis Mullem

by Various Authors

by L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney

by Robert Sheckley

by Miriam Allen De Ford

by Gottfried Keller

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

by Jesse Lynch Williams

by Clara Louise Burnham, Warren Proctor

by Perceval Gibbon

by Margaret Collier Graham

by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Bernard Capes

by Carl Jacobi

by R. R. (Russell Robert) Winterbotham

by Charles L. Fontenay

by Rudyard Kipling

by May Wentworth

by A. L. O. E.

by Mark Twain

by Richard Harding Davis

by Gilbert Parker

by Ray Cummings

by Guy de Maupassant

by Prosper Jourdan

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

by August Strindberg

by Demetrios Vikelas

by Ina Lange

by Salvatore Di Giacomo

by Giambattista Bazzoni

by Rudyard Kipling

by Maria Rieck-Müller

by Ray Palmer

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by R. R. (Russell Robert) Winterbotham

by Henry Leverage

by Antonio Fogazzaro

by István Tömörkény

by Noel M. Loomis

by B. Traven

by Lajos Biró

by Randall Garrett

by Lars Dilling, Julle Erg, Bret Harte, Mark Twain

by Giambattista Bazzoni

by Kauppis-Heikki

by Richard Howells Watkins

by Veikko Korhonen

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by István Petelei

by Emil Lassinen

by Various Authors

by Mary E. Mann

by Charles B. (Charles Barney) Cory

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Various Authors

by Maurice Leblanc

by Bret Harte

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Sir Charles L. (Charles Lawrence) Young

by Joseph Jacobs

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Edith Wharton

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Sir Richard Francis Burton

by Guy de Maupassant

by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

by Hermann Hesse

by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

by Guy de Maupassant

by Baron Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Brabourne

by Zane Grey

by Rudyard Kipling