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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 Mark Reinsberg

by Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Antonio Beltramelli

by Anna Schieber

by Zoltán Ambrus

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

by Frans Eemil Sillanpää

by Arnold Bennett

by Madeline Leslie

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Sol Boren

by Frans Eemil Sillanpää

by Various Authors

by William Harris

by Maurice Maeterlinck

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Pietari Päivärinta

by Rūdolfs Blaumanis

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by A. De Herries (Augustus De Herries) Smith

by Anatole France

by Verner von Heidenstam

by Jalmari Finne

by Maksim Gorky

by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

by Roopert Linna

by Robert Walser

by Adolf Schwayer

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by J. Walker (Joseph Walker) McSpadden, Charles Dickens

by Andrew Lang

by Various Authors

by Horacio Quiroga

by Herman Melville

by Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro

by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
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by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Various Authors

by Henry Van Dyke

by Honoré de Balzac

by Stephen Crane

by Jane Eayre Fryer

by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

by Carolyn Wells

by Sir Hugh Charles Clifford

by Richard Edward Connell

by Constance Fenimore Woolson

by Gustave Flaubert

by L. (Lily) Dougall

by Anatole France

by Madame (Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline) Guizot

by Octave Thanet

by M. (Arnaud) Berquin

by William Henry Giles Kingston

by Joel Chandler Harris

by L. K. (Leander K.) Lippincott, Grace Greenwood

by Various Authors

by Gustav Meyrink

by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

by Laura Rountree Smith

by Frederick Trevor Hill

by G. L. Vandenburg

by Lucia Prudence Hall Woodbury

by Theodore Whitson Ressler

by Wilhelm Hauff

by E. (Eliza) Fenwick

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by William Clark Russell

by Juliana Horatia Ewing

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Bernard Capes

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

by Walt Richmond, Leigh Richmond

by Perceval Gibbon

by Various Authors

by Evaleen Stein

by Various Authors

by Louis Becke

by Various Authors

by James McKimmey

by Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

by Olga Eschenbach, Maria Burg

by John Habberton

by Rick Raphael