Contents:

- Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

- Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold Bug

- Herman Melville. Bartleby, the Scrivener

- Bret Harte. The Luck of Roaring Camp

- Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyich

- Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

- Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper

- Anton Chekhov. The Lady with the Dog

- D.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Officer

- James Joyce. Araby

- Ivan Turgenev. First Love

- Nikolay Gogol. The Mantle

- Mikhail Bulgakov. The Embroidered Towel

- Ivan Bunin. The Gentleman from San Francisco

- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Carmilla

- O.Henry. The Gift of the Magi

- Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

- Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

- H.G. Wells. The Magic Shop

- W.W. Jacobs. The Monkey's Paw

- Arthur Conan Doyle. His Last Bow

- Henry James. Daisy Miller

- H.P. Lovecraft. The Call of Cthulhu

- Alexsandr Pushkin. The Queen of Spades

- G.K. Chesterton. The Blue Cross