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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 Maksim Gorky

by Theodore Dreiser

by Paul Heyse

by Various Authors

by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

by Constance Fenimore Woolson

by Marie Belloc Lowndes

by Juliana Horatia Ewing

by Michael Fairless

by Rosalie Koch

by Arnold Bennett

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by S. Elizabeth Hall

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Henry Kuttner

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Hermann Hesse

by Edith Wharton

by Various Authors

by Ruth McEnery Stuart

by Mary Cholmondeley

by Various Authors

by Wilhelm Hauff

by Alvin Heiner

by Tom Godwin

by Mrs. Molesworth

by Henry Beston

by Aunt Fanny

by Maud Lindsay

by Edward L. Bernays, Samuel Hoffenstein, Walter J. Kingsley, Murdock Pemberton

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

by Rick Raphael

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

by J. G. Kernahan, C. Kernahan

by Herbert Beeman

by Mrs. Molesworth

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

by Guy de Maupassant

by Anonymous

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by Edward Everett Hale

by Grace Greenwood

by Nelle E. Moore

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

by Peter Rosegger, Wilhelm Raabe, Fritz Reuter, Albert Roderich, Friedrich Theodor Vischer

by Albert Teichner

by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

by Jerry Sohl

by Arthur Gray

by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

by Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman) Weinbaum

by William Mackay

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Dougal Graham

by Edward Hart

by M. L. Hope

by Washington Irving

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Marjorie L. C. (Marjorie Lowry Christie) Pickthall

by Evan Hunter

by Oliver Herford

by Various Authors

by Visconde de Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay

by A. L. O. E.

by Arne Garborg

by Margaret St. Clair

by James Bell

by Manly Wade Wellman

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

by Maud Summers

by Russell Burton

by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

by Emmanouel D. Rhoides

by Pieter Louwerse

by David Pryde

by K. J. (Kaarle Jaakko) Gummerus

by Helena Nyblom

by Mark Twain

by Ross Rocklynne

by Otto Julius Bierbaum

by Josephine Siebe

by Art Lewis

by Stephen Bartholomew

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Ella Higginson

by Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer

by Jules Lermina

by Bryce Walton

by Various Authors

by M. E. Francis