This book contains70 short storiesfrom 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the criticAugust Nemo, in a collection that will please theliterature lovers.For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections.This book contains:Fitz-James O''Brien:- The Diamond Lens.- The Lost Room.- What Was it? A Mystery.- My Wife''s Tempter.- The Golden Ingot.- The Child Who Loved a Grave.- The Wondersmith.Francis Marion Crawford:- The Dead Smile.- The Screaming Skull.- Man Overboard!- For The Blood Is The Life.- The Upper Berth.- By The Waters of Paradise.- The Doll''s Ghost.Francis Stevens:- Behind the Curtain.- Unseen Unfeared.- Elf Trap.- Serapion.- Friend Island.- Citadel of Fear.- Nightmare!Barry Pain:- Aunt Martha.- The Bet.- The Boy in the Book.- The Discovery of Nesting.- Eliza and the Special.- The Kindness of the Celestial.- The Victim of Apparatus.Frank L. Packard:- Corporal Bob.- The Guardian of the Devil''s Slide.- Where''s Haggerty?- McQueen''s Hobby.- Munford.- "If a Man Die"- The Blood of Kings.Paul Laurence Dunbar:- The Scapegoat.- One Christmas At Shiloh.- The Mission Of Mr. Scatters.- A Matter Of Doctrine.- Old Abe''s Conversion.- The Race Question.- A Defender Of The Faith.Otis Adelbert Kline:- The Corpse on the Third Slab.- The Man from the Moon.- The Cup of Blood.- Mignight Madness.- The Malignant Entity.- The Bird-People.- The Thing of a Thousand Shapes.John Ulrich Giesy:- The Occult Detector.- The Purple Light.- The Significance of the High "D".- The Wistaria Scarf.- The Master Mind.- Rubies of Doom.- The House of Invisible Bondage.Valery Bryusov:- The Republic of the Southern Cross.- The Marble Bust.- For Herself or for Another.- In the Mirror.- Protection.- The "Bemol" Shop of Stationery.- Rhea Silvia.Eleanor H. Porter:- A Delayed Heritage.- The Folly of Wisdom.- The Letter.- The Elephant''s Board and Keep.- Crumbs.- The Lady in Black.- That Angel Boy.
