Short stories
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Sleepovers: Stories
$16.95 Read moreOne of the New Yorker’s “What We’re Reading This Summer” * A Millions Most Anticipated Book (June) * A Goop15 May 2020 Feature * One of Apartment Therapy’s “7 Must-Read Books Everyone Will Be Talking
- Author: Phillips, Ashleigh Bryant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: June 16 2020
- ISBN10: 1938235665
- Language: English
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The Complete Crime Stories
$28.99 Add to cartSeventeen hardboiled crime stories from the “poet of the tabloid murder” and author of Double Indemnity (Edmund Wilson).
They call him Lucky–but he has never had a lucky day in his life. A nineteen-- Author: Cain, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 422
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 1504011325
- Language: English
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The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales
$24.99 Add to cartThis “first rate anthology of reimagined fairy tales” (Locus Magazine) features an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers.
Once upon a time. It’s how so many of our most bel- Author: Parisien, Dominik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 148145613X
- Language: English
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Off the Record
$19.95 Add to cartEditor John Metcalf has inspired, challenged, and championed countless writers over his long career. In Off the Record, he encourages six to reveal what one rarely discusses in polite society: how the
- Author: Metcalf, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1771965452
- Language: English
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It Takes Two: Couples Erotica
$18.95 Read moreIt takes two to do more than just tango in Bussel’s sizzling new collection of short stories . . .
In It Takes Two, couples take their passion in new directions, giving free reign to their filthiest s- Author: Bussel, Rachel Kramer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1627783288
- Language: English
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Quarter to Midnight: Fifteen Tales of Horror and Suspense
$15.99 Add to cartFifteen chilling tales of gothic horror and suspense.
Push past the curtains of the rational, safe world and explore the un-nameable horrors living in the darkest corners of our conscience. This is the
- Author: Coates, Darcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: December 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0992594952
- Language: English
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Bad Kansas: Stories
$26.95 Add to cartThe eleven beautifully crafted stories in Bad Kansas reveal the complicated underbelly of the country’s most flown-over state and the quirky characters that call it home. In this darkly humorous colle
- Series: Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction #89
- Author: Mandelbaum, Becky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0820351288
- Language: English
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The Guy Not Taken: Stories
$17.00 Add to cartJennifer Weiner’s talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime.
We meet- Author: Weiner, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0743298055
- Language: English
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False Bingo: Stories
$17.99 Add to cartCombines the otherworldliness of Jeff VanderMeer’s “Annihilation,” the menacing irony of Shirley Jackson and the cold feminist fury of Margaret Atwood —The New York Times Book Review
Named a Fall Read- Author: Jemc, Jac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0374538352
- Language: English
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The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor
$36.99 Add to cartDescribed by Anne Tyler as the undisputed master of the short story form, Peter Taylor imbued his stories with a powerful sense of the conflicts between the old rural society and the increasingly urba
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Taylor, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 554
- Publish Date: August 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0374531846
- Language: English
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For a Little While
$24.99 Add to cartLong considered one of the most gifted practitioners of the short story, Rick Bass is unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart. Now, at last, we have t… [more below]
- Author: Bass, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0316381144
- Language: English
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Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories
$20.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE
Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island, hoping some mayhem will shake off the winter blahs. A man is booted out of his home after his wife dis- Author: Tower, Wells
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0312429290
- Language: English
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Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories
$19.99 Add to cartA much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form.
At times raucously hilarious, at times charming and delightful, at times as sole
- Author: Eisenberg, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0062688782
- Language: English
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The Doll
$18.99 Add to cart“Du Maurier is in a class by herself.”
—New York TimesPerhaps best known for her immortal gothic masterwork Rebecca–the basis for the Academy Award-winning motion picture directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- Author: Du Maurier, Daphne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0062080342
- Language: English
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The Inheritance: And Other Stories
$19.99 Add to cart“One of the most important writers in 21st-Century fantasy.”
—Contra Costa Times“Robin Hobb is one of our very best fantasy writers…always fresh, entertaining, and completely engrossing.”
—New York- Author: Hobb, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 61561649
- Language: English
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The Shehnai Virtuoso: And Other Stories
$15.95 Add to cart“Dhumketu is a wonderfully gripping storyteller, and translator Jenny Bhatt has certainly done him justice in this excellent selection.” -Jennifer Croft, translator of The Books of Jacob
The tragic lov
- Author: Dhumketu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1646051688
- Language: English
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The Fox’s Tower and Other Tales: A Collection of Magical Short Stories
$14.99 Read more“Locus Award winner Lee (Phoenix Extravagant) takes on the folktale form in a collection of 25 gorgeous, magical stories, tiny jewels of worldbuilding that tap into mythic themes to feel somehow both … [more below]
- Author: Ha Lee, Yoon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1524868132
- Language: English
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How to Dispatch a Human: Stories and Suggestions
$16.95 Add to cartIn this daring collection of speculative fiction, Stephanie Andrea Allen attends to the lives of Black women, mostly lesbian or queer, all keenly aware of the forces seeking to consume them.
A Black le
- Author: Allen, Stephanie Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1735906506
- Language: English
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As Summer’s Mask Slips and Other Disruptions
$15.95 Add to cartA genderfluid witch in a small Southern town prepares for their Black Cotillion coming out party. Singing worms converge on an old woman and young boy living in a house buried deep underground. Reveng
- Author: White, Gordon B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: January 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1950305201
- Language: English
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Kansas City Noir
$15.95 Read more“Hard-used heroes and heroines seem to live a lifetime in the stories . . . Half novels-in-waiting, half journalistic anecdotes that are equally likely to appeal to Kansas City boosters and strangers.
- Series: Akashic Noir
- Author: Paul, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 1617751286
- Language: English
