Fifty unusual and enchanting short stories.

• 1. A Lucky Number by S. B. Hale
• 2. The Brown Wallet by Stacy Aumonier
• 3. The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
• 4. A Strange Thing by John Galsworthy
• 5. Rats by M. R. James
• 6. The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling
• 7. My Adventure in Norfolk by A. J. Alan
• 8. Gabriel-Ernest by Hector Hugh Munro
• 9. The Pig and Whistle by George Gissing
• 10. The Misogynist by Henry Prothero
• 11. An Egyptian Cigarette by Kate Chopin
• 12. Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty by Stacy Aumonier
• 13. The Changeling by W. W. Jacobs
• 14. A Strange Goldfield by Guy Boothby
• 15. A Poor Gentleman by George Gissing
• 16. The Room by Stacy Aumonier
• 17. The Inn of the Two Witches by Joseph Conrad
• 18. The Other Side by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock
• 19. The Test by W. W. Jacobs
• 20. Old Iron by Stacy Aumonier
• 21. Nyarlathotep by H. P. Lovecraft
• 22. A Queer Night in Paris by Guy de Maupassant
• 23. The Famous Race Between the Hearse and the Steamroller by Sidney Keyes
• 24. The Haunted Dolls’ House by M. R. James
• 25. A Falling Out by Kenneth Grahame
• 26. The Belated Russian Passport by Mark Twain
• 27. The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
• 28. Adrian by Hector Hugh Munro
• 29. H2 Etc. by A. J. Alan
• 30. The Stalled Ox by Hector Hugh Munro
• 31. The Cabin Passenger by W. W. Jacobs
• 32. The Hair by A. J. Alan
• 33. The Egg by Sherwood Anderson
• 34. Submarine by Stella Benson
• 35. An Intervention by W. W. Jacobs
• 36. Blackmail by John Galsworthy
• 37. Red Hanrahan by W. B. Yeats
• 38. A Child’s Revenge by Paul Bourget
• 39. Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield
• 40. Curried Cow by Ambrose Bierce
• 41. Odour of Chrysanthemums by D. H. Lawrence
• 42. Miss Harriet by Guy de Maupassant
• 43. The Mother Stone by John Galsworthy
• 44. Alf’s Dream by W. W. Jacobs
• 45. A Source of Irritation by Stacy Aumonier
• 46. Lost in a Pyramid by Louisa May Alcott
• 47. Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger by Hector Hugh Munro
• 48. My Uncle Jules by Guy de Maupassant
• 49. Major Namby by Wilkie Collins
• 50. Number 17 by Edith Nesbit