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H.G. Wells

The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes

by H.G. Wells

First published in 1895

An accident in a lab resulting in a temporary experience of sensory dislocation. Davidson's sight is mapped to a point on the other side of the globe.

 

 

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O. Henry

The Cop And The Anthem

by O. Henry

First published in 1905

This is a story with an ironic, mocking tone in which a bum who talks like a gentleman tries to get himself thrown into jail but continually fails. The ultimate irony is that Soapy, who goes to a great deal to get thrown into jail, finally does get thrown into jail for doing precisely nothing wrong.

Edgar Allan Poe

The Gold Bug

by Edgar Allan Poe

First published in 1843

The discovery of a message in code on a shoreline formerly infested with pirates sends William Legrand and his friends on a hunt for buried treasure.

 
Joseph Rudyard Kipling

The Man Who Would Be King

by Joseph Rudyard Kipling

First published in 1843

The rugged mountains of 19th century Afghanistan serve as the background for this humorous and action-packed tale of two happy-go-lucky Brits who take over a remote kingdom.

 
Robert Louis Stevenson

The Bottle Imp

by Robert Louis Stevenson

First published in 1891

This a a story about Keawe, a native of Hawaii, who buys a magic bottle which brings him all that he desires but which he must sell before he dies in order to avoid spending eternity in hell.

 
Howard Phillips Lovecraft

The Call Of Cthulhu

by Howard Phillips Lovecraft

First published in 1926

This story is presented as a manuscript "found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of New York". In the text, Thurston recounts his discovery of notes left behind by his granduncle, George Gammell Angell, a prominent professor of Semitic languages at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who died suddenly after being "jostled by a nautical-looking figure".

 
Luigi Pirandello

Light From The House Opposite

by Luigi Pirandello

First published in 1894

Tulio Buti had had no childhood. He had never been young. The savage scenes he had witnessed in his home from his tenderest years up, on account of the brutality and fierce tyranny of his father, had extinguished in him every spark of life. So, why did the light from the house opposite work a miracle ?