From Nikolai Gogol's 'The Nose.'

From Ambrose Bierce's 'The Boarded Window.'

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

From Ivan Turgenev's 'First Love.'

From Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's 'The Actress.'

From Boleslaw Prus' 'The Barrel Organ.'

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

From Alexander Pushkin's 'The Postmaster.'

From Mikhail Lermontov's 'The Fatalist.'

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

From Stefan Zeromski's 'Pavoncello.'

From Oscar Wilde's 'The Canterville Ghost.'

From Ivan Turgenev's 'A Swashbuckler.'

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

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

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

From Prosper Mérimée's 'Mateo Falcone.'

From Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's 'The Vampire.'

From Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Markheim.'

From Alexandre Dumas 'The Resurrection of the Offland.'

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

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

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

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