This book contains

70 short stories from 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors.

The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.

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This book contains:

Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Devil and Tom Walker, Christmas, Guest from Gibbet Island, The Legend of the Engulphed Convent, The Adventure of my Uncle

Oscar Wilde: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, The Sphinx without a Secret, A Model Millionaire, The Happy Prince, The Fisherman and his Soul, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Young King

Bram Stoker: The Castle of the King, A Star Trap, The Secret of the Growing Gold, The Burial of the Rats, Dracula's Guest, The Squaw, The Judge's House

H.G. Wells: The Time Machine, A Dream Of Armageddon, The Crystal Egg, The Man Who Could Work Miracles, The Flowering of the Strange Orchid, The Sea Riders, The Apple

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Scandal In Bohemia, The Five Orange Pips, The Disintegration Machine, When the World Screamed, The Great Keinplatz Experiment, The Horror of the Heights, The Ring of Thoth

E.T.A. Hoffman: The Golden Pot, The Sandman, Councillor Krespela, Automata, The Elementary Spirit, The Jesuits' Church in G--, The Story of the Hard Nut

Rudyard Kipling: The Mark of the Beast, The Phantom 'Rickshaw, Mowgli's Brothers (from the Jungle Book), Kaa's Hunting (from the Jungle Book), Tiger! Tiger! (from the Jungle Book), The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes, The Man Who Would Be King

Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis, A Hunger Artist, In the penal colony, The Judgment, Before the Law, A Country Doctor, A Report to an Academy

H.P. Lovecraft: The Call of Cthulhu, The Outsider, Pickman's Model, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Colour out of Space, The Dunwich Horror, The Music of Erich Zann

Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Black Cat