A Slav Soul by Alexander Kuprin
A Slav Soul by Alexander Kuprin is the title story of the short story collection A Slav Soul, and Other Stories which was published in English in 1916
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The Cauldron of Oil by Wilkie Collins
The Cauldron of Oil by Wilkie Collins appeared in the collection My Miscellanies Vol II published in 1863.
The Crystal Crypt by Philip K. Dick
The Crystal Crypt by Philip K. Dick was first published in the January 1954 edition of Planet Stories and later appeared in Beyond Lies the Wub in 1988.
The Story Of The Siren By E. M. Forster
Originally published in 1920, The Story Of The Siren By E. M. Forster was later included in the collection The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. It tells the tale of a young man who has seen a siren living deep in the sea.
A Passion in the Desert by Honoré De Balzac
A Passion in the Desert by Honoré De Balzac was published in 1830 and is one of the Scenes from Military Life of La Comédie Humaine.
A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather
A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather was first published in Everybody’s Magazine in February 1904. In 1906, it appeared in Cather’s first published collection of short stories, The Troll Garden.
The Salt of the Earth by George Gissing
The Salt of the Earth by George Gissing is one of fifteen stories that make up the collection “The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories”, published in 1906.
Death at the Excelsior by P. G. Wodehouse
Death at the Excelsior by P. G. Wodehouse was the author’s only attempt at a detective story, which he pulls off with his signature comic twists and turns.
The Happy Unfortunate by Robert Silverberg
The Happy Unfortunate by Robert Silverberg was published in Amazing Stories in 1957 and explores the angst caused when the human race reaches into space but at the cost of needing to breed a new species. This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. The Happy…
The Country of the Blind by H. G. Wells
The Country of the Blind by H. G. Wells was first published in the April 1904 issue of The Strand Magazine and included in a 1911 collection of Wells’s short stories, The Country of the Blind and Other Stories.