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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 R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by L. Mylius (Ludvig Mylius) Erichsen

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Franz Kafka

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Alice Dracott

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

by Rudyard Kipling

by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by Thomas Hardy

by Owen Wister

by comte de Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by Various Authors

by James Selwin Tait

by Eliza Lee Cabot Follen

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Various Authors

by Ellis Towne, Sophie May Farman, Ella Farman Pratt

by Antonio Beltramelli

by Lodovico Domenichi

by O. Henry

by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Lord Dunsany

by Lord Dunsany

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Bret Harte

by Henry Lawson

by Paul Heyse

by Heinrich von Kleist

by Maksim Gorky

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Laurence M. Janifer

by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti

by Kostas Krystalles

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Bram Stoker

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Lewis Carroll

by Beatrix Potter

by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

by Andrew Lang

by S. Mukerji

by Juliana Horatia Ewing

by Jack London

by George MacDonald

by Arthur Morrison

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Giuseppe Giacosa

by Ring Lardner

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Frederick Marryat

by Various Authors

by István Bársony

by N. S. (Nikolai Semenovich) Leskov

by Pierre Mille

by Rudyard Kipling

by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

by Jack London

by Various Authors

by Gouverneur Morris

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Juan Valera

by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

by Frances Margaret Fox

by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

by Various Authors

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Thomas Peter Krag

by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by O. Henry

by Frank R. Stockton

by John Galsworthy

by Various Authors

by Anatole France

by Jack London

by Charles Herbert Sylvester

by Rudyard Kipling

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

by Selma Lagerlöf