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 Ivan Turgenev's 'A Swashbuckler.'

From Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's 'The Actress.'

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

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

From Nikolai Gogol's 'The Nose.'

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

From Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Markheim.'

From Boleslaw Prus' 'The Barrel Organ.'

From Oscar Wilde's 'The Canterville Ghost.'

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

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

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

From Stefan Zeromski's 'Pavoncello.'

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

From Alexander Pushkin's 'The Postmaster.'

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

From Mikhail Lermontov's 'The Fatalist.'

From Alexandre Dumas 'The Resurrection of the Offland.'

From Ambrose Bierce's 'The Boarded Window.'