The story shelf
Follow your curiosity.
A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
What would you like to read about?
30 stories · Selected from the catalog · Page 2 of 2
H. G. WellsA physiologist’s new stimulant speeds thought and movement so radically that the outside world seems frozen in time.
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A mediocre painter watches his portrait acquire a devilish expression—and then hears the canvas criticize his art.
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A lonely lighthouse keeper boards a white ship under the full moon and sails through dreamlike lands of beauty, mystery, and danger.
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A woman is surprised by her attraction to the friend her husband has invited to stay.
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From Paradise, the Buddha offers a single spider’s thread to a robber suffering at the bottom of Hell.
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When a devil disguised as a missionary plants a mysterious crop in sixteenth-century Japan, one cattle dealer makes a wager to learn its name.
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