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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 Maurice Baring

by Robert Hichens

by Nelson S. Bond

by Achille Giovanni Cagna

by Nelson S. Bond

by Lauri Soini

by Edgar Wallace

by Ray Humphreys

by Guy de Maupassant

by Hazel Heald, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Murray Leinster

by Mika Waltari

by Johannes Linnankoski

by Dick Donovan

by George Egerton

by H. C. (Henry Cadwallader) Adams, R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne, S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould, Fanny Barry, Frances Clare, Alice Corkran, George Manville Fenn, Agnes Giberne, Mrs. A. M. Goodhart, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty, Katharine S. (Katharine Sarah) Macquoid, Mrs. Molesworth, Helen A. Wilmot-Buxton, Emma Wood, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

by Anna Milo Upjohn

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

by Evan Merritt Post

by Ernest Haycox

by Ivan March

by Louis Pergaud

by Veikko Korhonen

by Iivo Härkönen

by Knut Hamsun

by Herbert Russell Wakefield

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Harriet Martineau
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by Ray Humphreys

by Annie Eliot Trumbull, George A. (George Abiah) Hibbard, Bliss Perry, Edith Wharton, John Seymour Wood

by Various Authors

by John Galsworthy

by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

by Blanche Sellers Ortman

by Randall Garrett

by Hugh S. (Hugh Stuart) Fullerton

by Andrew A. (Andrew Augustine) Caffrey

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Anni Kaste

by Sax Rohmer

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Alice van Leer Carrick

by Sarah Orne Jewett

by Violet Jacob

by Catulle Mendès

by Ernest Haycox

by John Luther Long

by William Thompson

by Rudolf Presber

by Ernest Haycox

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by Murray Leinster

by Leland Jamieson

by John Mackay Wilson, Various Authors

by Jack Woodford

by Charles E. Fritch

by Zora Neale Hurston

by Murray Leinster

by Guy de Maupassant

by Frank Richardson Pierce

by Larin-Kyösti

by John Fleming Wilson, Mary Ashe Miller

by Väinö Albert Nuorteva

by August Strindberg

by Henry Drummond

by Santeri Rissanen

by Samuel Scoville

by Ilma Virtala

by Maria Ramstedt

by Robert Louis Stevenson

by Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner

by Edgar Wallace

by Murray Leinster

by Jack Williamson

by Ray Cummings

by Harold Ward

by Edgar Daniel Kramer

by Vincent Starrett

by Pansy, Mrs. C. M. Livingston

by José S. (José Sixto) Alvarez

by Sarah Orne Jewett

by Robert Walser

by Ray Humphreys

by Harlan Ellison

by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

by A. (Arturo) Olivieri Sangiacomo

by Wilhelm Holzamer

by Thomas Nelson Page

by John Galsworthy

by Jane Barlow

by John A. Thompson

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Murray Leinster

by Alma Ellerbe, Paul Ellerbe

by Ernő Szép