

From Mark Twain's 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg'

From Auguste Villiers De L'Isle-Adam's 'The Torture of Hope.'

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

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

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

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