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Unusual Short Stories

By: Mark Twain, Guy de Maupassant, Stacy Aumonier, John Galsworthy, W. W. Jacobs, Ambrose Bierce, D. H. Lawrence
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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Publisher's Summary

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
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