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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 Guy de Maupassant

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Louis Becke

by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Theodore Dreiser

by Karen Anderson

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by A. L. O. E.

by Remy de Gourmont

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Just W. Flood

by Mark Twain

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

by Alexander Lange Kielland

by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by George Eliot

by active 16th century-17th century Yingyu Zhang

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

by Arnold Bennett

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

by Ernest Thompson Seton

by John Galsworthy

by Cal Stewart

by Algernon Blackwood

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Maurice Baring

by Fritz Leiber

by Josephine Daskam Bacon

by Maria Edgeworth, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Alicia Catherine Mant

by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

by Eden Phillpotts

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Kate Chopin

by Paul Heyse

by Wilhelm Hauff

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Edith Howes

by Madame (Joséphine) Dandurand

by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Wilhelm Hauff

by Cesare Cantù

by Winston K. (Winston Kinney) Marks

by Charles V. De Vet

by Kaapro Jääskeläinen

by Arthur Christopher Benson

by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

by Jakob Wassermann

by Johnny Gruelle

by Sara Cone Bryant

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Gottfried Benn

by Howard Pyle

by Elliott O'Donnell

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Alfred Henry Lewis

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Various Authors

by Eugene Field

by Anonymous

by Mrs. Molesworth

by Charles Weathers Bump

by Aleksandr Amfiteatrov, Honoré de Balzac

by Elliott O'Donnell

by Jerome Bixby

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Eugenia Dunlap Potts

by Edgar Saltus

by Ruth Lamb

by Ray Bradbury

by Jean Aicard

by Edwin Carlile Litsey

by Jean de La Fontaine

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Fredric Brown

by Randall Garrett

by Pierre Mille

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by King of Navarre consort of Henry II Queen Marguerite

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Guy de Maupassant

by Louisa May Alcott

by Charles Dickens

by Edna Ferber

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

by Prosper Mérimée

by Guy de Maupassant