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.For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections.This book contains:- A. E. W. Mason:The Affair At The Semiramis HotelThe ClockGreen PaintEnsign KnightleyThe Man Of WheelsThe CowardKeeper Of The Bishop- Julian Hawthorne:David Poindexter's Disappearance.Ken's Mystery.When Half-gods Go, the Gods Arrive.Set Not Thy Foot on Graves.My Friend Paton.The Christmas Guest.The Laughing Mill- Kenneth Grahame:The Twenty-First of OctoberDies IraeMutabile SemperThe Magic RingIts Walls Were as of JasperA Saga of the SeasThe Reluctant Dragon- John Kendrick Bangs:The Water Ghost Of Harrowby HallThe Spectre Cook Of BangletopA Midnight VisitorThe Speck On The LensA Quicksilver CassandraThe Ghost ClubA Psychical Prank- Frank R. Stockton:The Bee-Man Of Orn.The Griffin And The Minor Canon.Old Pipes And The Dryad.The Queen's Museum.Prince Hassak's March.The Battle Of The Third Cousins.The Banished King.- Jacques Futrelle:The Problem of Cell 13The Thinking MachineFive Millions by WirelessKidnapped Baby Blake, MillionaireThe Problem of the Motor BoatThe Problem of the Opera BoxThe Problem of the Vanishing man- Ella D'Arcy:IrremediableWhite MagicA MarriageIn NormandyThe Pleasure-PilgrimThe Web of MayaAn Engagement- John Buchan:Politics and the MayflyThe Keeper of CademuirThe Wife of FlandersThe Watcher by the ThresholdComedy in the Full MoonThe Herd of Standlan- E. F. Benson:The Room in the TowerCaterpillarsMrs. AmworthMr. Tilly's SéanceNegotium PerambulansHow Fear Departed from the Long GalleryThe Horror-Horn- Daniil Kharms:Symphony no. 2On phenomena and existences - No. 1The thingAndrey SemyonovichAn unexpected drinking boutThe destiny of a professor's wifeThe memoirs of a wise old man

A. E. W. Mason (7 May 1865 22 November 1948) was an English author and politician.Julian Hawthorne was an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel HawthorneKenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 6 July 1932) was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature.John Kendrick Bangs was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist. His name is immortalised in the term "Bangsian Fantasy".Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century.Jacques Heath Futrelle (April 9, 1875 April 15, 1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine" for his application of logic to any and all situations. Futrelle died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic.Ella D'Arcy (23 August 1857 5 September 1937) was a short fiction writer in the late 19th and early 20th century.John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, (/26 August 1875 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian ConfederatE.F. Benson , in full Edward Frederic Benson , (born July 24, 1867, Wellington College, Berkshire, Eng.died Feb. 29, 1940, London), writer of fiction, reminiscences, and biographies, of which the best remembered are his arch, satirical novels and his urbane autobiographical studies of Edwardian and Georgian society.Daniil Kharms (30 December 1905 2 February 1942) was an early Soviet-era avant-gardist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist.