From Ambrose Bierce's 'The Boarded Window.'

From Alexandre Dumas 'The Resurrection of the Offland.'

From Mikhail Lermontov's 'The Fatalist.'

From William Wilkie Collins' 'A Terribly Strange Bed.'

From Alexander Pushkin's 'The Postmaster.'

From Ivan Turgenev's 'The Song of Triumphant Love.'

From Stefan Zeromski's 'Pavoncello.'

From Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed.'

From Ambrose Bierce's 'A Matter of Conscience.'

From Giovanni Boccaccio's 'The Decameron No. 40.'

From Oscar Wilde's 'The Canterville Ghost.'

From Boleslaw Prus' 'The Barrel Organ.'

From Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Markheim.'

From Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart.'

From Nikolai Gogol's 'The Nose.'

From Robert Louis Stevenson's 'The Rajah's Diamond.'

From Edgar Allan Poe's 'The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether.'

From Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's 'The Actress.'

From Ivan Turgenev's 'A Swashbuckler.'

From Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's 'The Vampire.'

From Prosper Mérimée's 'Mateo Falcone.'

From Auguste Villiers De L'Isle-Adam's 'The Torture of Hope.'

From Mark Twain's 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg'

From Ivan Turgenev's 'First Love.'