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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 Roy Norton

by Zacharias Topelius

by Arthur Machen

by O. Henry

by Elma Ehrlich Levinger

by Katherine Mansfield

by Edith Wharton

by Evelyn Sharp

by Henry Van Dyke

by William Carleton

by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

by Théophile Gautier

by Various Authors

by Khristo Botev

by Elizabeth Gordon

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

by Maksim Gorky

by Honoré de Balzac

by Louisa May Alcott

by Paul Laurence Dunbar

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Mary Hallock Foote

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Antonio Ghislanzoni

by Achmed Abdullah, Max Brand, E. K. (Eldred Kurtz) Means, Perley Poore Sheehan

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Honoré de Balzac

by Various Authors

by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Horace Walpole

by Brander Matthews

by Pansy

by Jim Harmon

by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

by Jules Gabriel Janin

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Bernard Wall

by Arthur Stringer

by Henry Slesar

by Paul Arène

by Frans Hedberg

by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

by Howard Pyle

by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

by Ambrose Bierce

by Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman) Weinbaum

by Algernon Blackwood

by Sewell Ford

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Jack London

by Johnny Gruelle

by Selma Lagerlöf

by Guy de Maupassant

by Frank R. Stockton

by Stephen Crane

by Bret Harte

by Anna Katharine Green

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

by Stephen Crane

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Various Authors

by Ernest Thompson Seton

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Palmer Cox

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Luiz Augusto Rebello da Silva

by Louisa May Alcott

by Albert Payson Terhune

by George Alfred Townsend

by Mary Russell Mitford

by Francis A. (Francis Alexander) Durivage

by Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen

by Cyrus Townsend Brady

by Rudyard Kipling

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

by Various Authors

by Per Hallström, Verner von Heidenstam, Sigfrid Siwertz, Hjalmar Söderberg

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Jean Nicolas Bouilly

by Ellen Robena Field

by Randall Garrett

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Bénédict-Henry Révoil

by Keith Laumer

by Rudyard Kipling

by John Aikin, Mrs. (Anna Letitia) Barbauld, Mrs. (Jane Haldimand) Marcet, Jane Taylor

by Various Authors