A gripping collection of over 50 of the greatest short stories written by great British writers.

• 1. "The Missing Years" by Barry Pain
• 2. "His Brother's Keeper" by W. W. Jacobs
• 3. "A Madman's Manuscript" by Charles Dickens
• 4. "The House of Cobwebs" by Barry Pain
• 5. "Old Fags" by Stacy Aumonier
• 6. "A Long-Ago Affair" by John Galsworthy
• 7. "August Heat" by W. F. Harvey
• 8. "The Dabblers" by W. F. Harvey
• 9. "Rose Rose" by Barry Pain
• 10. "An Undergraduate's Aunt" by F. Anstey
• 11. "An Idyll of London" by Beatrice Harraden
• 12. "Hot Potatoes" by Arnold Bennett
• 13. "Bagnell Terrace" by E. F. Benson
• 14. "Malachi's Cove" by Anthony Trollope
• 15. "Moon's Gibbet" by Egerton Castle
• 16. "The Dancing Partner" by Jerome K. Jerome
• 17. "The Giraffe Problem" by Barry Pain
• 18. "The Man who was Blind" by Edwin Pugh
• 19. "The Perfect Murcer" by Stacy Aumonier
• 20. "The Other Side" by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock
• 21. "The Roman Road" by Kenneth Grahame
• 22. "At the Farmhouse" by E. F. Benson
• 23. "The Dead Hand" by Wilkie Collins
• 24. "The Wind in the Portico" by John Buchan
• 25. "The Smile of La Gioconda" by Morley Roberts
• 26. "The Room" by Stacy Aumonier
• 27. "The Octave of Jealousy" by Stacy Aumonier
• 28. "The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling
• 29. "The Salt of the Earth" by Barry Pain
• 30. "The Diary of Mr. Poynter" by M. R. James

....and over 20 more exciting stories.