A superb collection of vintage classic short stories by some of the world's greatest storytellers. The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe, The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad, The Unparalleled Adventures of one Hans Pfaal by Edgar Allan Poe, The Dead by James Joyce, The Venturers by O. Henry, The Telltale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, The Mezzotint by M. R. James, The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, Von Kempelen and his Discovery by Edgar Allan Poe, Mesmeric Revelation by Edgar Allan Poe, The Unknown Quantity by O. Henry, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe, Germans at Meat by Katherine Mansfield, The Modern Soul by Katherine Mansfield.