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