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A step-mother hates her son so badly that she kills him. Her daughter manages to hide her step-brothers bones which she buries under a juniper-tree. The tree is however magical and ...

There lived once an evil sorcerer who went from door to door pretending to be a poor man in need of help. When a pretty girl opened her home for him, he would compel her to jump in ...

There lived once one little girl who most of us know by the name "Little Red Riding Hood". Do you know why she was called like that? Because she was wearing all the time the red ho ...

There was once a tailor who killed seven flies at one stroke. He was so proud of himself that he made a belt embroidered with the words "Seven at one stroke". Then a giant saw the ...

Moraklockan slog fem klingande slag. Lill-Jerk satte sig upp i skåpsängen och gnuggade sig i ögonen. Det var något han skulle göra idag, medan mor och far var ute. Fyra långa timma ...

Cirka 70 procent av Sveriges yta är täckt av skog. Skogens djup och isolerande natur är ett evigt löfte om anonymitet. Vad gör människan när den tror att ingen tittar? Bland åldran ...

Vi träffades på ett nätforum som hette ”Vi som inte kan hålla våra husdjur vid levande.”  Han hette Adam, men kallades Adde av de flesta, berättade han. Vi chattade en del med vara ...

Dystopisk urban fantasy om hjältemod som inte sitter i förmågor, utan i hjärtat. Elijah förlorade allt i fallet. Kvinnan som stått honom närmast, sina krafter och sitt kall. Livet ...

Historianlehtori Konrad Sevinen on pudota tuolilta, kun kuulee vaimonsa Teklan ryhtyneen kirjailijaksi. Eikä miksi tahansa kirjailijaksi vaan humoristiksi, joka käsittelee yhteisku ...

Benjamin, nuori juutalainen juristi, rakastuu palavasti saksalaiseen Christinaan. Heidän salainen romanssinsa päättyy, kun Christinan juutalaisvastainen isä määrää tämän naimisiin ...

I Skimrande eljest samlar författaren Emilia Wahlgren noveller som alla kom till liv parallellt i samband med hennes debutroman Moraliskt fördärvade. Den är således en fristående f ...

Once lived a family of nine, a mother, a father, and their seven sons. The eighth child was on the way. The seven brothers got a little sister. She was however so sick that the fam ...

Do you think it is possible to not confess your sins if you are about to be burnt at stake? Most probably not, right? Well the girl in our story is so stubborn that you might rethi ...

A short story that is shrouded in mystery, "The Man that Was Used Up" follows a narrator who wants to learn more about an important military figure. A satirical tale that mocks a r ...

The story is often labelled a sequel to "How to Write a Blackwood Article", and deals with Signora Zenobia, who comes across a stately cathedral and a giant clock, that soon will t ...

With his sense of humor and ability to observe, Nikolai Gogol presents the world with stories of little people: the weak and fragile people who try to hold on to life in the gloomy ...

In Nikolai Gogol's short story 'May Night, or the Drowned Maiden,' a single night ends up changing the lives of many. Young Levko is the son of the head of a Ukrainian village and ...

How far will a man go for love? The short story 'St. John's Eve' by Nikolai Gogol from the 19th century recounts the sinister events that transpired in a poor hamlet generations ag ...

"The Old World Landowners" is a short story written in 1835. It is the first tale in the "Mirgorod" collection by Nikolai Gogol. The story is a vivid representation of the old-fash ...

'The Fair at Sorochyntsi' by Nikolai Gogol is a short story set in a Ukrainian village in 1800. A man travels with his daughter and wife to a fair to sell some of their belongings. ...

Rudy lived close to the little town of Grindelwald in Switzerland. He lived with his uncle as his parents were both dead. Indeed, Rudy himself had almost died at the same time as h ...

Aunt Mille has always told me that I have the soul of a great poet. I am not sure about this, but I love her so much that I do not dare contradict her. The reason I love her so muc ...

Once upon a time, a young man dreamed of becoming a writer and making a living from his pen. But there was a problem. The writers of the previous centuries had already exhausted al ...

A family of toads lived in a very deep well: it was so deep that, from the top, you could not even see the surface of the water. One of the young toads dreamed of knowing what ther ...

The star that is brightest this morning knows many things: she has watched over the earth for centuries and knows many things that we men have long forgotten. Today, she tells us t ...