Short stories
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The Mythic Dream
$16.99 Add to cartAn all-new anthology of eighteen classic myth retellings featuring an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers.
Madeleine L’Engle once said, “When we lose our myths we lose ou- Author: Parisien, Dominik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1481462385
- Language: English
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Ghost Pains
$19.95 Read moreOne of LitHub, Bookshop.org and i-D’s most anticipated books of 2024
With her novels The Exhibition of Persephone Q and The Visitors, Jessi Jezewska Stevens has proven herself as our preeminent purveyo
- Author: Jezewska Stevens, Jessi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1913505847
- Language: English
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Lez Talk: A Collection of Black Lesbian Short Fiction
$15.95 Add to cartA necessary and relevant addition to the Black LGBTQ literary canon, which oftentimes overlooks Black lesbian writing, Lez Talk is a collection of short stories that embraces the fullness of Black les
- Author: Allen, S. Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0997243996
- Language: English
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This Is Paradise: Stories
$16.00 Add to cartElegant, brutal, and profound—this magnificent debut captures the grit and glory of modern Hawai’i with breathtaking force and accuracy.
In a stunning collection that announces the arrival of an inc- Author: Kahakauwila, Kristiana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0770436250
- Language: English
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The Wine-Dark Sea
$14.95 Add to cartPeter Straub called Robert Aickman ‘this century’s most profound writer of what we call horror stories’. Aickman’s ‘strange stories’ (his preferred term for them) are a subtle exploration of psycholog… [more below]
- Author: Aickman, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 0571311725
- Language: English
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The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction
$19.99 Add to cartA definitive collection of the very best short stories by contemporary American masters
Edited by Joyce Carol Oates, “the living master of the short story” (Buffalo News), and Christopher R. Beha, this
- Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 14 2008
- ISBN10: 0061661589
- Language: English
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The Nameless Dark
$18.00 Add to cartThe Nameless Dark debuts a major new voice in contemporary Weird fiction. Within these pages, you’ll find whispers of the familiar ghosts of the classic pulps–Lovecraft, Bradbury, Smith–blended with
- Author: Grau, T. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: July 25 2015
- ISBN10: 1590214633
- Language: English
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The Stories of Ibis
$15.99 Add to cartIn a world where humans are a minority and androids have created their own civilization, a wandering storyteller meets the beautiful android Ibis.
In a world where humans are a minority and androids h- Series: The Stories of Ibis
- Author: Yamamoto, Hiroshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 20 2010
- ISBN10: 1421534401
- Language: English
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Small Horrors: A Collection of Fifty Creepy Stories
$16.99 Add to cartSomething mimics human voices as it lures you into the woods.
One of the morgue’s corpses is missing.
Your friend wants to meet late at night, but they’re not acting like themselves.
Immerse yourse
- Author: Coates, Darcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: November 20 2017
- ISBN10: 0992594928
- Language: English
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Selected Short Stories
$25.00 Add to cartFrom the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner–also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Absalom, Abs
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 18 1993
- ISBN10: 0679424784
- Language: English
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Look at the Birdie: Short Fiction
$17.00 Add to cart“Relentlessly fun to read.”–Dave Eggers – A collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction
In this series of perfectly re- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0385343728
- Language: English
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You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down
$13.95 Add to cartAnatural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love
& Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show
women oppressed but not defeated.These are hopeful stories ab… [more below]- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 167
- Publish Date: May 17 2004
- ISBN10: 015602862X
- Language: English
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Even Greater Mistakes: Stories
$18.99 Add to cartIn her short story collection, Even Greater Mistakes, Charlie Jane Anders upends genre cliches and revitalizes classic tropes with heartfelt and pants-wettingly funny social commentary.
The woman who- Author: Anders, Charlie Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1250766524
- Language: English
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Kew Gardens and Other Short Fiction
$8.94 Add to cart‘The ponderous woman looked through the pattern of falling words at the flowers standing cool, firm, and upright in the earth, with a curious expression. . .So heavy the woman came to a standstill opp… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 198838131
- Language: English
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Poirot Investigates: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Warbler Classics)
$10.95 Add to cartIn the world of Hercule Poirot, a movie star’s visit to London turns into a quest to recover a fabulous diamond, an ordinary dinner conversation about rented flats and houses leads to the discovery of
- Series: Hercule Poirot #3
- Author: Christie, Agatha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1736062883
- Language: English
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Sing to It: Stories
$17.00 Add to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD
ONE OF TIME‘S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 From legendary writer Amy Hempel, one of the most celebrated and original voices in Ameri- Author: Hempel, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1982109122
- Language: English
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The Mountain: Stories
$17.00 Add to cartIn “a spectacular display of intelligence and feeling” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), Paul Yoon’s collection of short stories ranges throughout the world–from the Hudson Valley to the Russian F… [more below]
- Author: Yoon, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 1501154095
- Language: English
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The Best American Short Stories of the Century
$32.00 Add to cartSince the series’ inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all tim
- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Updike, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: April 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0395843677
- Language: English
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Sentimental Tales
$16.95 Add to cartMikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. The tales are narrated by one Kolenkorov
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Zoshchenko, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0231183798
- Language: English
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Miss Muriel and Other Stories
$17.99 Add to cart“Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it
- Author: Petry, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0063260174
- Language: English
