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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 H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Clara Dillingham Pierson

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Juliana Horatia Ewing

by Guy Wetmore Carryl

by Gabriele D'Annunzio

by Booth Tarkington

by Walter M. Miller

by Joseph Conrad

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Vivant Denon

by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

by Pietro Thouar

by Ernst Didring

by Guy de Maupassant

by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

by Rudyard Kipling

by Sholem Aleichem

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Giovanni Boccaccio

by Isaac Asimov

by Lafcadio Hearn

by Christopher Morley

by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Wilson) Grierson

by O. Henry

by Henry Lawson

by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

by Guy de Maupassant

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Clara Dillingham Pierson

by Walter Scott

by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Honoré de Balzac

by Geoffrey Chaucer

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Susan Glaspell

by Jack London

by George Ade

by S. Frances (Susie Frances) Harrison

by Hamlin Garland

by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

by Guy de Maupassant

by Edward William Thomson

by Annie Trumbull Slosson

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Fritz Leiber

by Katharine Pyle

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

by Émile Zola

by Catharine Shaw

by Peter Rosegger

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Jack London

by Gilbert Parker

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Stephen Crane

by Horacio Quiroga

by William Dean Howells

by Virginia Woolf

by Joseph Conrad

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

by Lord Dunsany

by Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf

by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

by Stephen Leacock

by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

by Jack London

by Jonas Lie

by L. Adams (Lily Adams) Beck

by Madame d' (Marie-Catherine) Aulnoy

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

by Willa Cather

by Walter Scott

by Sherwood Anderson

by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

by Edward Eggleston

by Ernest Bramah

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Various Authors

by W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison) Murray

by Rubén Darío

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Robert Louis Stevenson

by John Charles Dent

by Dean Ing

by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

by Claude Farrère

by Jeannette Augustus Marks

by L. J. Stecher Jr.

by Philip José Farmer

by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin

by Gilbert Parker