Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 13

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.

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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.