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Top 10 Short Stories The - Northern Europe - The top 10 short stories of all time by authors from Northern Europe

Minna Canth, August Strindberg, Knut Hamsun, Eimar H Kvaran, Oscar Wilde, Cornelia Levetzow, Hans Christian Andersen, Arthur Machen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edith Nesbit

Top 10 Short Stories The - European Gothic - The top 10 gothic short stories written by European authors

Miguel de Cervantes, Guy de Maupassant, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Ernst Raupach, Nikolai Gogol, Sheridan Le Fanu, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alexander Puschkin, E T A Hoffmann, Théophile Gautier

Top 10 Short Stories The - Vampires - The top 10 short stories of all time about vampires

John William Polidori, Uriah Derick D'Arcy, E T A Hoffmann, Jan Neruda, Phil Robinson, Augustus Hare, E F Benson, Hume Nisbet, F G Loring, Ernst Raupach

The Passing of Edward - A poignant story about an uncle coming back to visit

Richard Middleton

The Daughter of Pontius Pilate - In Ancient Roman times a rich woman tries to cure her ails

Ivan Vazov

A Little Woman - A man tries to appease a woman frustrated with him in true Kafkaesque fashion

Franz Kafka

The Bucket Rider - A poor man seeks compassion but is found wanting

Franz Kafka

A Country Doctor - The plight of a doctor to save a sick boy meets many osbstacles

Franz Kafka

Love - Star-Crossed Lovers - Some things are meant to be but some things just aren't…

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ovid, Iván Turguénev, Stephen Crane, Owen Oliver, Alexander Puschkin, Herbert von Kleist, Anton Chekhov

Passion and Desire - Short Stories - The heart wants what the heart wants…

D H Lawrence, Mansfield Katherine, Dorothy Parker, Eliza Haywood, May Sinclair

Stories From the Shadows - Psychological Thriller - Embrace the darkness

Nikolai Gogol, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mikhail Bulgakov, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Violet Mary Firth, Violet Hunt, A C Benson

Stories From the Shadows - Retribution - Embrace the darkness

Edgar Allan Poe, Gustav Meyrink, W C Morrow, William Mudford, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Samuel Blas, J Y Ackerman, William Hunt, Robert Barr

Stories From the Shadows - Vampires - Embrace the darkness

John William Polidori, E T A Hoffmann, Jan Neruda, Phil Robinson, Hume Nisbet, E F Benson, F G Loring, Ernst Raupach

The Bundle of Letters - A man discovers something in his wifes closet driving him beyond the edge

Mór Jókai

The Three Palaces - A couple is offered three choices in this allegorical tale

Richard Garnett

Madam Lucifer - A classic Faustian tale set against a game of chess

Richard Garnett

The Rewards of Industry - In China a child uses chess to gain his fathers approval

Richard Garnett

The Lover's Complaint - One of the greatest love poems ever written

William Shakespeare

Venus and Adonis - One of the greatest love poems ever written

William Shakespeare

The Narrative Poetry - Listen to the master at work

William Shakespeare

Top 10 Short Stories The - The Germans - The top ten stories by German authors

Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, E T A Hoffmann, Herbert von Kleist, Hanns Heinz Ewers, The Brothers Grimm, Heinrich Heine, Ernst Raupach, Johann Hebel

Top 10 Short Stories The - The German Language - The top ten stories originally written in German

Rainer Maria Rilke, Stefan Zweig, Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, E T A Hoffmann, Herbert von Kleist, Hanns Heinz Ewers, The Brothers Grimm, Heinrich Heine, Frank Kafka

Top 10 Short Stories The - Classic Sci-Fi Horror - The top ten classic science fiction horror stories

Robert Louis Stevenson, H P Lovecraft, Jack London, Violet Hunt, Ambrose Bierce, William Hope Hodgson, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Top 10 Short Stories The - The Mad Scientist - The top ten short stories about mad scientists

Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Edward Page Mitchell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, L T Meade, H P Lovecraft

Anton Chekhov - Six of the Best - Their legacy in 6 classic stories

Anton Chekhov

Arthur Conan Doyle - Six of the Best - Their legacy in 6 classic stories

Arthur Conan Doyle

Barry Pain - Six of the Best - Their legacy in 6 classic stories

Barry Pain

M R James - Six of the Best - Their legacy in 6 classic stories

M R James

Anthony Hope - Six of the Best – An Introduction - Their legacy in 6 classic stories

Anthony Hope

Frederick Cowles - Six of the Best - Their legacy in 6 classic stories

Frederick Cowles