・ Rashomon
Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1915)
The author published Rashomon in a university magazine when he was just 17. Just 13 pages long, it comprises seven statements regarding the murder of a samurai and his wife's disappearance.
・ One Thousand and One Nights
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Anonymous (first published in English 1706)
Packing in crime, horror, fantasy and romance, it influenced authors as diverse as Tolstoy, Dumas, Rushdie, Conan Doyle, Proust and Lovecraft.
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