Science fiction by an early master: Poe's "A descent into the Maelstrom"

Who but "Bitter Bierce" could come up with the genre of comic horror?

An absorbing story by The Incomparable Max: A. V. Laider

Like Sherlock Holmes on the other side of the law, Arsène Lupin played the game for the game's sake. Even from prison!

A side of Dashiell Hammett you may not have met before.

Something to stimulate the little gray cells: Inspector Poirot investigates.

A tale by the multi-talented author-illustrator Will James, famous tale-teller of the American West.

Trifles? In Chesterton's vision, they become tremendous.

"The Drover's Wife," a classic tale by one of the great Australian bush poets, Henry Lawson.

H. G. Wells offers an urban fantasy, a kind of comedy-science fiction tale, The Man Who Could Work Miracles.