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

From Prosper Mérimée's 'Mateo Falcone.'

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

From Ivan Turgenev's 'A Swashbuckler.'

From Nikolai Gogol's 'The Nose.'

From Mikhail Lermontov's 'The Fatalist.'

From Ambrose Bierce's 'The Boarded Window.'

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

From Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's 'The Actress.'

From Stefan Zeromski's 'Pavoncello.'

From Alexander Pushkin's 'The Postmaster.'

From Ivan Turgenev's 'First Love.'

From Alexandre Dumas 'The Resurrection of the Offland.'

From Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's 'The Vampire.'

From Oscar Wilde's 'The Canterville Ghost.'

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

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

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

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

From Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Markheim.'

From Boleslaw Prus' 'The Barrel Organ.'

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

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

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