Short stories

'At Concordia' is a collection of 12 short stories revolving around a eight small Christian colleges, mostly in the Midwest, operated by a synod in MIssouri. Each story captures the personal reflections and experiences of individuals who have been...

Between the cover of this book, readers will be taken on an epic adventure of the imagination. "The Harbingers Inkwell" includes short stories, poetry, comedy, faith, and much more. This book is all-inclusive with a little something for everyone...

They say it's hard getting into the movies...try getting out!Fresh from the cutting room floor,The Silver Screamexposes the bloodiest behind-the-scenes details of the most gruesome, shocking, true-crime tragedy of our time. Part autopsy, part grisly...

A collection of previously unpublished writing culled from the Kerouac archiveJack Kerouac's archive is vast. Throughout his life he was constantly writing, and he meticulously saved and catalogued his material. The result is that beyond the work...

A continuation of the very popular Very Christmas Series, this collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time in an elegant and vibrant volume featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the...

The six stories in Outside showcase Barry Lopez's majestic talent as a fiction writer. Lopez writes in spare prose, but his narratives resonate with an uncanny power. With a reverence for our exterior and interior landscapes, these stories offer profound...

In this stunning debut story collection set largely in Nigeria, questions abound: What happens when we fall short of society's - and our own - expectations? When our personal desires conflict with the duties we are bound with? The characters in...

If anything's going to save the characters in Amelia Gray's debut from their troubled romances, their social improprieties, or their hands turning into claws, it's a John Mayer concert tee. In AM/PM, impish humor and cutting insight are on full display...

"One of the freshest, most memorable story collections of my lifetime. And 'A Good Man,' one of the most important. Rarer than the newness, the wit, the vivid readability, is the deep caring understanding, the wholeness, the truth which this astonishing,...

High Lonesome is a darkly comic, fiercely tragic, and strikingly original odyssey into American life. This collection by the author of Airships and Bats Out of Hell explores lost moments in time with intensity, emotion, and an eye to the past. In "Uncle...

Ever gotten lost in a book? Or on your bicycle? Or both at once, by falling through a portal on the page? Anything is possible in this collection of fifteen very short stories and one comic.Ranging from science fiction to fantasy and travelling in time...

This anthology gathers 100 tales that share the winter theme of Hans Christian Andersen's classic. In addition to stories by Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, it includes works by Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Wilde, selections from Andrew...

A thrilling anthology of short stories from Star Trek Explorer magazine, collected for the first time!Featuring tales by Una McCormack, Gary Russell, Michael Carroll, John Peel, Chris Dows, Chris Cooper, and Greg Cox.This incredible collection features...

A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram Stoker Award (R)-nominated and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.Four devastating tales from a master of...

From the award-winning author, who Stephen King called 'a master of the short story' comes this unforgettable 20th-anniversary celebration of Hard Case Crime. Taking you from Brazil at Carnival to Times Square at midnight and from...

In this anthology of microliterature over forty writers reflect on the theme of remnant in contexts ranging from the natural world and the urban environment through to the personal and the political. Each contribution, at less than a page in length,...

Hugo Award winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents a terrifying and chilling horror anthology of original short stories exploring the endless terrors of winter solstice traditions across the globe, featuring chillers by Tananarive Due,...

A woman adjusts to her new urban landscape. A slaughterman comes to terms with the death of his wife. A rodeo ringer blows into town, wreaking havoc.In this collection, we venture across distinct terrains-inviting and inhospitable, familiar and...

Througha multitude of distinct voices, Gildfind's startling tales explore the absurd,macabre, surreal and too-real whilst wrestling with the irrevocable acts,immutable facts, and relentless uncertainties that lie at the dark heart ofevery life."Witha...

In prose that is both unflinching and lyrical, Suzi Ehtesham-Zadeh presents Zan, a collection of stories that provide a deep and nuanced view of contemporary Iranian women as they navigate a crucial moment in their nation's history.A university student...

14 Young Adult short stories from bestselling and award-winning authors make a splash in Mermaids Never Drown - the second collection in the Untold Legends series edited by Zoraida Cordova and Natalie C. Parker - exploring mermaids like we've...

Over twenty CWA Dagger Award-winning short stories from the best of the best in crime fiction.Legendary editor, Maxim Jakubowski, delivers another chilling anthology collecting stories of cold-blooded murder, revenge and crimes-gone-wrong from the best...

The Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author returns with a new collection of literary horror and weird fiction that glitters with startling prose and tortured souls. Invaginies is an invasion, it is a perception that is bodily and transcendent creating...

In the stories of Exile in Guyville, probable futures and alternate realities take aim at unruly women, and show how they refuse to be ruled.With a speculative and surreal style, Amy Lee Lillard's prize-winning collection explores a living museum of...

Featured in these pages are Edgar Allan Poe's best-loved and most-feared literary creations: the clever C. August Dupin, precursor to Sherlock Holmes; the terrifying ghouls ofTales of the Grotesque and Arabesque; as well as the tragic...

4 horror short stories exploring female friendship, body image, heartbreak and hauntings.In 'Reply Hazy, Try Again', an indecisive young woman finds a mysterious Magic 8 Ball that might just have the answers she's been looking...

Haruki Murakami's best-loved stories finally in graphic novel form!Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into scores of languages. Now for the first time, in this...

An extraordinary collection of Japanese folk tales, many in English for the first time!This book contains 79 stories from the Japanese collection Tales from Shinshu, compiled and edited by award-winning author Noboru Wada. It features traditional tales...

Do Millennials deal with relationship break-ups any differently to the deities from Greek mythology? What would the natural world actually say if it were given a voice? Can grief really drive us crazy? Welcome to this diverse collection of contemporary...

'How can a person resist?' - The Paris ReviewStories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology and destiny.From the bestselling author of Strange...

One part absurd humor, one part social commentary, Big, Weird, Lonely Hearts throws the most unlikely couples into bed together. This hilarious book includes a man mistaken for a bush, a mermaid refugee, a bird who dreams of weaponizing cats, a boy with...

Neglected by society, a group of caravanning 60-somethings encounter a place where time stops. A baby swims in a witch's cauldron. A statue of Jesus grows fat off fish and chips. An ancient Egyptian God swims through the sewers under a suburban street...

**Shortlisted, The Barbellion Prize****Shortlisted, The Irish Book Awards**A pregnant woman takes the ferry to the UK.A fractious intimate relationship develops between an Irish woman, an English man, and her girlfriend.Two ungendered characters contest...

Having stormed mainstream literature from the outskirts, Lethem has won a readership both wide and deep, all of whom appreciate his literary excellence, his mordant but compassionate humor, and the cultish attentiveness of his SF origins. He has earned...

When truth is more gruesome than fiction Ha Seong-nan is there. When people give in to their most intrusive thoughts Ha Seong-nan is there. When man is more animal than animals themselves Ha Seong-nan is there.In Wafers, her third short-story collection...

A refreshingly original debut collection of short stories that grapple with the self-alienation and self-discovery that make us human. For fans of Souvankham Thammavongsa, Lynn Coady, and Lisa Moore comes a striking debut collection of short stories that...

A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Anthologies CategoryThis anthology, the first of this kind in twenty-five years, collects eighteen astounding works of Jewish fiction. This is the first anthology of translated multilingual Jewish...

Haruki Murakami's stories in graphic novel form for the first time!Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into dozens of languages. Now for the first time, many of...

In Joe Baumann's newest collection Where Can I Take You When There's Nowhere To Go, queer men explore their sense of who they are and what they want, often in worlds that are tilted askew from what we might expect.Thirteen surreal short stories utilize...

Winner of the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Winner of the New Brunswick 2023 Mrs. Dunster's Award for Fiction One of the Globe and Mail Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 AMiramichi Reader Best Book of...

A surprising and exciting new collection of speculative and experimental stories that explore animal intelligences, gender, and the nature of stories. The Privilege of the Happy Ending collects award-winning writer Kij Johnson's speculative fiction from...

A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes. Includes an introduction from acclaimed bestselling author Chuck Wendig.Eight...

Age range 12 to 18A dazzling collection of retold and original fairy tales from fifteen acclaimed and bestselling YA writers.Fairy tales have been spun for thousands of years and remain among our most treasured stories. Weaving fresh tales with...

In her dynamic debut, Halle Hill'sGood Womendelves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South.A Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2023 in Fiction One of Oprah Daily's Best Books of the Year One of Electric Literature's Best Short Story...

Playful, kinetic, and devastating in turn, You Were Watching from the Sand is a collection in which Haitian men, women, and children who find their lives cleaved by the interminably strange bite back at the bizarre with their own oddities. In "belly," a...

Shirley Jackson Award-winning author J. Ashley-Smith's first collection, The Measure of Sorrow, draws together ten new and previously acclaimed stories of dark speculative fiction. In these pages a black reef holds the secret to an interminable coastal...

Winner of the Oregon Book Award for Fiction.Kesha Ajs-Fisher'sNo God Like the Mother follows characters in transition, through tribulation and hope. Set around the world--the bustling streets of Lagos, the arid gardens beside the Red Sea, an apartment in...

Magic stops. Men vanish. Worlds end. Life goes on.The stories in The Last Vanishing Man start with the end of the world, as a narrator seeks to imagine how the actions of an American terrorist ripple through his family. American violence and masculinity...