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The story involves a mine that uncovers a very deep chasm, too deep for any sounding lines to hit bottom. The night after the discovery of the abyss the narrator and one of the mine's workers, Juan Romero, venture inside the mine, drawn against their will by a mysterious rhythmical throbbing in the ground. (Goodreads)

Excerpt:"The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I. Indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with responsibility almost to top-heavy...

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant; (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents. Guy De Maupassant wrote some of the most twisted and freaky short stories of his day. This is Volume 2 of 13, containing 11 of his best stories. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

There is a man who has lost his wife and daughter. He is the sole survivor in the accident and feels great guilt. And in this guilt, he begins to drink more and more each day. Then one day as the man was contemplating suicide, a stranger named Joren comes along and tells him not to worry. He tells...

Synopsis: Lady detective Dora Myrl and Paul Beck join forces in this brisk mystery. Each are acting for a different client on a fraud case. (Goodreads)

Excerpt: "The fall of Bataan ended any possibility of getting supplies for the 14th Infantry; our patrols had only three rounds of ammunition per man. We became quite depressed over the surrender of Bataan; we knew many of our friends there must be dead, wounded or suffering from starvation and many diseases."

Phoebe, Junior: A Last Chronicle of Carlingford (also spelled Phœbe, Junior) is an 1876 novel by Margaret Oliphant. It follows the exploits of its heroine, Phoebe Beecham, as she learns the true history of her family history. This novel is the last of the six Carlingford Chronicles, and is set roughly in the early 1860s to late 1870s. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

James Gibbons Huneker publishied two volumes of short stories, Melomaniacs and Visionaries, and in the last year of his life published a racy novel, Painted Veils. (Wikipedia)

A collection of 53 stories from anonymous writers. Ideal for story-telling or reading to children.

Bored socialite Polly Brewster has cajoled her father into renting a villa in a politically unstable but beautiful Central American nation, Caracuña. Her intent: to get away from three suitors whose persistence she finds annoying. One of the three is so intent on marriage that he follows her South....

“Wanted: A Husband” by Samuel Hopkins Adams is a novel about a frumpy young woman who gets help from a more glamorous friend to make herself over. She falls in love with man she thinks is unavailable, and staves off other suitors with a lie about an eng fiancee which she comes to regret when people insist on meeting him. Hijinks involving assumed identities ensue…

Excerpt: ”Pain. Pain. Pain. The primal curse, the dominant tragedy of life. Who among you, dear friends, but has felt it? You men, slowly torn upon the rack of rheumatism; you women, with the hidden agony gnawing at your breast" (his roving regard was swift, like a hawk, to mark down the sudden,...

*Quick Action* is a collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers, the “Shopgirl’s Scheherazade” in his time. We might call him the period Norah Roberts: a prolific writer of romances with the occasional appearance of something rather different--in his case, such classic horror as “The King in Yellow.” (Google)

Excerpt: "Leonardo Da Vinci found in drawing the readiest and most stimulating way of self-expression. The use of pen and crayon came to him as naturally as the monologue to an eager and egoistic talker. The outline designs in his " Treatise on Painting" aid and amplify the text with...