Short stories
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Clockwork Cairo: Steampunk Tales of Egypt
$21.00 Add to cartWelcome to the land of the Pharaohs…
Clockwork mummies, thieving deities, airship pirates, psychic queens, mechanical scarabs, unrepentant scoundrels, mysterious museums, trickster djinns, suspicious
- Author: Bright, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: June 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1527207773
- Language: English
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I Am Crying All Inside: And Other Stories
$23.99 Add to cartFrom the Nebula Award-winning author of Way Station: Ten stories–including one never before published–of mystery and imagination in a world that cannot be.
People work; folk play. That is how it h- Series: Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak #1
- Author: Simak, Clifford D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1504012674
- Language: English
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Home
$18.00 Add to cart“Home” finds Kossi Komla-Ebri between places and identities, cultures and languages, expectations and realities, Europe and Africa. Across these eleven short stories, Komla-Ebri crosses genres and bor… [more below]
- Series: Crossings #34
- Author: Komla-Ebri, Kossi A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1599541904
- Language: English
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The Spirit in My Shoes
$24.95 Add to cartFeaturing twenty-three stories, John Michael Cummings’s debut story collection brims with the vitality and complexity of our shared humanity. In tales that conjure comparisons to John Updike, Raymond
- Author: Cummings, John Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1960329103
- Language: English
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Red Pyramid: Selected Stories
$18.95 Add to cartExtended comic turns like The Queue and relentless, mind-bending, genre-shredding extravaganzas like Ice Trilogy have established Vladimir Sorokin as a master of the contemporary novel. It is to Sorok… [more below]
- Author: Sorokin, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378205
- Language: English
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Nightmares Unhinged: Twenty Tales of Terror
$18.99 Add to cartNightmares come in many forms. Some rend the veil of sleep with heart-stopping madness. Others defy sanity to leave a helpless corner of your mind twitching for release. Sometimes, hours after waking,
- Author: Viola, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0985559098
- Language: English
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The Black Pilgrimage & Other Explorations: Essays on Supernatural Fiction
$21.99 Add to cartTHE GHOSTLY WORK OF M. R. JAMES
The celebrated writer M. R. James (1862-1936) is the most significant author of ghost stories in the world. His macabre work has terrified and fascinated readers for ove
- Author: Pardoe, Rosemary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: May 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0957296274
- Language: English
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Tales from Jabba’s Palace: Star Wars Legends
$9.99 Add to cartIn the dusty heat of twin-sunned Tatooine lives the wealthiest gangster in a hundred worlds, master of a vast crime empire and keeper of a vicious, flesh-eating monster for entertainment (and disposal… [more below]
- Series: Star Wars – Legends
- Author: Anderson, Kevin
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0553568159
- Language: English
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The Best American Short Stories 2016
$14.95 Add to cart“The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” —Shelf Awareness for Readers
The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: DÃaz, Junot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0544582896
- Language: English
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Heartbreaker
$15.99 Add to cartIn her debut story collection Heartbreaker, Maryse Meijer peels back the crust of normalcy and convention, unmasking the fury and violence we are willing to inflict in the name of love and loneliness.
- Author: Meijer, Maryse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536066
- Language: English
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Nimrod Flipout
$19.00 Add to cartFrom Israel’s most popular and acclaimed young writer–“Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren’t” (Yann Martel, author o
- Author: Keret, Etgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0374222436
- Language: English
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Tales of Falling and Flying
$24.00 Add to cart“Mesmerizing and magical. . . . A stunning book.” —NPR.org
“Short stories so imaginative — and yet so perplexingly familiar — they could have formed in a dream. . . . Taut, meticulously balanced an- Author: Loory, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0143130102
- Language: English
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Brodie’s Report
$18.00 Add to cartAt the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie’s Report, he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism,… [more below]
- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0143039253
- Language: English
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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
$20.00 Add to cartThe Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle ch… [more below]
- Author: Songling, Pu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 31 2006
- ISBN10: 0140447407
- Language: English
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Gates of Eden
$14.99 Add to cart“A distinctive voice and an offbeat worldview…All of these stories take place in Coen Brothers Land, a parallel universe similar to our own–except it’s weirder, funnier, and better edited.” — New
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Coen, Ethan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0061684880
- Language: English
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I Know You Love Me, Too
$17.00 Add to cartEight years apart, half-sisters Ingrid and Kate suffer the loss of their shared father when Ingrid is twenty and Kate only twelve. As they negotiate their uncertain sisterhood, Ingrid struggles with h
- Author: Neswald, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: December 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1941561268
- Language: English
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Everything Inside: Stories (a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick)
$17.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – “Unforgettable tales of families and lovers–from Haiti to Miami, Brooklyn, and beyond–often struggling with grief, loss, and missed connections.” —Vanity… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Danticat, Edwidge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0525563059
- Language: English
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Sunrise: Radiant Stories
$16.00 Read more“A knockout.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred review)
“A remarkable collection.” –Kirkus Reviews A collection of contemplative, lyrical stories examining the visible and invisible consequences of atomic- Author: Kobayashi, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1662601174
- Language: English
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From the Depths: And Other Strange Tales of the Sea
$17.99 Add to cartFrom atop the choppy waves to the choking darkness of the abyss, the seas are full of mystery and rife with tales of inexplicable events and encounters with the unknown.
In this anthology we see a t- Series: Tales of the Weird
- Author: Ashley, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0712352368
- Language: English
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A Creature Wanting Form: Fictions
$19.95 Read moreA Creature Wanting Form is a bleakly funny work of fiction from a journalist widely celebrated for his wry, mordant take on life.
Filtered through the lens of a writer and characters who are horrified
- Author: O’Neil, Luke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1682193837
- Language: English
