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The Overcoat
1842 story by Nikolai Gogol
Reynard the Fox
cycle of Old French fables

Apocolocyntosis
thumb|300px|Apocolocyntosis, from a 9th-century manuscript of the Abbey library of Saint Gall.
The Apocolocyntosis (divi) Claudii, literally Pumpkinification/Gourdification of (the Divine) Claudius, is a satire on the Roman emperor Claudius (), which, according to Cassius Dio, was written by Seneca the Younger. A partly extant Menippean satire, an anonymous work called Ludus de morte Divi Claudii ("Play on the Death of the Divine Claudius") in its surviving manuscripts, may or may not be identical to the text mentioned by Cassius Dio. "Apocolocyntosis" is a word play on "apotheosis", the proce
The Devil in the Belfry
short story by Edgar Allan Poe
Harrison Bergeron
short story by Kurt Vonnegut

The Nose
short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
The Witch of Konotop
story by Ukrainian author Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko

The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
short-story by Edgar Allan Poe
The Duc de L'Omelette
humorous short story by Edgar Allan Poe
Julius Excluded from Heaven
book by Desiderius Erasmus

The Leader
short story by Radoje Domanović