Introduction by Emma Timpany The inspiration for ‘A Haunted House’ came from Asheham, the house near the South Downs where Virginia and...

Introduction by Lucie Elven The elements of ‘The Student’ – short for Chekhov, and his favourite of his own stories – are simple: three...

Introduction by Sheila Armstrong I love markets. Picking through the debris of other people’s lives. Finding a trinket that burns with...

Introduction by Toby Litt Perhaps Henry James’ moment is gone – because it is a long moment. If you’re going to enter a story like ‘The...

Introduction by Giselle Leeb I discovered this story in ‘Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature (Ed. Alberto Manguel)’, which...

Introduction by Zoe Gilbert This tale of regretted revenge has it all: a woman scorned, jealousy, a curse, body horror, an incubus, a...

Introduction by Farhana Khalique As if moving house wasn’t stressful enough, it’s 1890s Wellington, New Zealand, and your mum’s just told...

Introduction by Venetia Welby Natsume Sōseki is known as the father of Japanese modernist literature, and he’s arguably the big daddy of...

Introduction by Gurnaik Johal I think 'Eveline', a story about immigration from Joyce’s 1914 collection Dubliners, could just as easily...

Introduction by Shome Dasgupta Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” is a story which reverberates throughout time—past, present, and future—it’s a...

Introduction by Clare Reynolds I think it’s important that I’m honest with you all from the start. I was never a huge reader of short...

Introduction by David Rose Alongside the celebrated masterpieces of Modernism's miracle year were two significant story collections:...

Introduction by Jessie Greengrass. To begin, let’s say straight up that Chesterton was an Edwardian englishman, a Catholic convert, a...

Introduction by Claire Carroll. It was in February 2020, on the cusp of the pandemic, that I re-read Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis and...

Introduction by Matthew Turner. A writer living in Paris named Raoul Duquette, who is interested in English literature, meets another...

Introduction by Susmita Bhattacharya. It is a hot Sunday afternoon, and my little sister and I grab our seats in front of the television....

Introduction by J.S. Barnes. In spite of his numerous abilities and considerable literary versatility, H G Wells - science fiction...

Introduction by Linda Mannheim. I can’t remember the wider context of my life when I read “A Meeting” by Guy de Maupassant, but I can...

Letter to a Young Lady in Paris (Carta a una señorita en París) Introduction by Kit Caless. I wish I could choose multiple Julio Cortázar...

Introduction by Avee Chaudhuri Herman Melville is rarely thought of as a comedian, but only someone as somber, moral, obsessive, and...