Talent bursts from this decade with astonishing ease.  From America across Europe to Russia each and every story is an indelible mark of story-telling flecked with genius that enthralls us all.  Whatever their chosen genre their stories break new ground, cover new topics and carry a legacy that cannot be disputed.

In this compilation – 

1 – The Top Ten – The 1840 s

2 – The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

3 – The Cloak by Nikolai Gogol

4 – Sextons Hero by Elizabeth Gaskell

5 – The Mummys Foot by Théophile Gautier

6 – Rappaccinnis Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

7 – The Spectre of Tappington by Richard Harris Barham

8 – The Jew by Ivan Turgenev

9 – An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

10 – Taman by Mikhail Lermantov

11 – The Return of Martin Guerre by Alexandre Dumas