The Dublin Mystery by Baroness Orczy
The Dublin Mystery by Baroness Orczy was published in 1908 in her short fiction collection The Old Man in the Corner.
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Magepa the Buck by H. Rider Haggard
Magepa the Buck by H. Rider Haggard first appeared in Pears’ Christmas Annual December 1912. It was later included in his 1921 collection Smith and the Pharaohs And Other Tales.
The Dance of Death by Gustave Flaubert
Written in 1838, The Dance of Death by Gustave Flaubert is a prose poem, an early attempt by the author at Romanticism. It was later included in Three Short Works published in 1877.
Mr. Prohartchin by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mr. Prohartchin by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a short story written in 1846. It was first published in the Annals of the Fatherland.
Xingu by Edith Wharton
Xingu by Edith Wharton was published in 1916. Xingu is satire of a pretentious ladies lunch and literature group set in the early 1900’s
The Trial for Murder by Charles Dickens
The Trial for Murder by Charles Dickens was written in 1865. It was originally published under the title “To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt” as a chapter in Dr. Marigold’s Prescriptions in an extra Christmas volume of the weekly literary magazine, All the Year Round.
The Lightning-Rod Man by Herman Melville
When the narrator opens his door to a lightning-rod salesman, the two become involved in a philosophical discussion about faith and the will of God.
The Skull by Philip K. Dick
The Skull by Philip K. Dick was first published in 1952. Later it was included in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. It has since been republished several times, including in Beyond Lies the Wub in 1988
The Metropolitan Touch by P. G. Wodehouse
The Metropolitan Touch by P. G. Wodehouse features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in The Strand Magazine in London and Cosmopolitan in New York in September 1922.
Greville Fane by Henry James
Greville Fane by Henry James was written in 1892. It explores the life and literary career of Mrs. Stormer, a fictional author.