Anthologies: general

To take a leap of faith is to bet your belief on an unknown future. But belief is central to the human experience whether it's religious, political, societal, philosophical or spiritual, the act of believing can be a lodestar, a comfort, a ritual, a...

Amy Lane's Fish Out of Water universe has expanded to include garage mechanics, assassins, nurses, psychics, and adult film stars. Many of them forged a safe, hidden haven in Victoriana--the middle of the desert.This collection of shorts revolves mostly...

Eerie tales of Japanese goblins, ghosts and magic beautifully illustrated in a deluxe collector's edition!This collection of fifteen chilling tales brings to life a world where the supernatural and earthly realms are seamlessly intertwined. The...

In Sanctuary, knowledge can often be the deciding factor between utter defeat and hard-won victory.Now fans of Diablo can seize these ancient - and sometimes, forbidden - truths with Horadric Vault: The Complete Collection. This unmatched boxed set...

Twelve original dark academia stories from bestselling thriller writers.Imagine darkened libraries, exclusive elite schools, looming Gothic towers, charismatic professors, illicit affairs, the tang of autumn in the air...and the rivalries and obsessions...

A family on the last starship finds that stories themselves may very well save a dying world. A man finds a new lease on life in an ancient dingus. A phone that can be used to call a few minutes into the future leads to unexpected turmoil. An anthroid on...

A collection of previously unpublished writing culled from the Kerouac archiveJack Kerouac's archive is vast.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...

The National Black Theatre Festival (NBTF) was created in 1989 by Larry Leon Hamlin, founder of North Carolina Black Repertory Company (NC Black Rep) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. NC Black Rep hosts this festival every two years. Hamlin's goal in...

"Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging...potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit."-Washington Post"Terrifying and fearlessly inventive."-New York TimesThe first complete collection of Wanda Coleman's original...

The most enjoyable way to learn about an unfamiliar culture is through its stories--especially when they're told in two languages!Thai Stories for Language Learners introduces 28 entertaining Thai stories with bilingual Thai and English versions...

Franz Kafka: The Office Writings brings together, for the first time in English, Kafka's most interesting professional writings, composed during his years as a high-ranking lawyer with the largest Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute in the Czech Lands...

A new collection of short fiction from Kill Your Darlings.An opera singer loses her voice. Sex releases memories. A lake monster captures a town's attention. Two young men take their vapes and big ambitions and go On The Road.New Australian...

Like the answer to a riddle, status is all around us, but it can't always be seen or heard. The silent switchboard behind our professional and personal interactions, status dictates our place on the guest list, in the room, at the table; through its...

What is the best way to tell a story?In this anthology, the first-ever collection of essays by innovative, cutting-edge writers on the theme of narration, forty of the continent's top experimental writers describe their engagement with language,...

"Heartbreakingly beautiful writing; sometimes funny, sometimes shattering-always revolutionary. Truly amazing collection!"-Margaret Cho "Sister Spit is like the underground railroad for burgeoning queer writers. Not only in the van, but in the audiences...

"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,...

Lake Minnetonka is renowned for its natural beauty as well as the prominent people it has attracted to its shores as a historic site of grand hotels, steamboats, and wealthy visitors from around the world, and as the home of the legendary Excelsior...

The visual images of Queen Elizabeth I displayed in contemporary portraits and perpetuated and developed in more recent media, such as film and television, make her one of the most familiar and popular of all British monarchs.This collection of essays...

One of the most important books of illustrated poetry in English literature, William Blake's Songs of Innocence was meticulously relief-etched, printed and coloured in 1789. A unique work of composite art, it contains some of Blake's most enduring and...

Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began a correspondence that would span four decades. They exchanged letters, cards and telegrams, and made occasional phone calls between...

The saga continues in Terry and the Pirates Volume 8, reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs!Pat Ryan's bittersweet reunion with the entire Sandhurst family-including young daughter Merrily-is cut short when they...

126 pages of classic Peanuts comic strips. This Facsimile edition of the original Here's to you, Charlie Brown was first published in 1969 and features 126 pages Peanuts newspaper strips taken from Ha Ha Herman, Charlie Brown. Featuring many of...

Relics, Dreams, Voyages is a closely focused sequence of studies of worldwide connections in all the arts in the baroque period. Drawing on original research in libraries, collections, and archives in five countries, and in as many languages, this book...

A collection of 15 classic Chinese folk stories - passed down from generation to generation - presented in both Chinese and English.Welcome to the land of Chinese folklore, a delightful corner of the Chinese heritage that remains relatively unexplored in...

New and exclusive short stories and poems inspired by bad mothers from some of today's fiercest women in horror. Featuring Rachel Harrison, Gwendolyn Kiste, Kristi DeMeester, and Kelsea Yu, edited by Lindy Ryan with a foreword by Sadie 'Mother...

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,...

Thirty-seven writers from First Nations, migrant and refugee backgrounds reveal the true wealth and beauty of Australia's cultural melting pots.Australia is often referred to as The Lucky Country - a land of economic opportunity and vast natural...

The past, famously, is a foreign country - but in the twenty-first century, it's one in which we increasingly seek solace. No matter the relentless pace of technological innovation and the digitisation of everything from money to media our appetites for...

Seven essays that make the compelling case for coming to your own informed conclusions in an age of extremes. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the...

The saga continues in Terry and the Pirates Volume 7, reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs!Embroiled in the guerilla struggle against the invader, Terry meets "Madame Lustre" (AKA Burma!) and matches wits German...

Just as Odin's ravens, named Huginn and Muninn (translated to Thought and Memory), would whisper everything he couldn't see, so too do these and other mythical ravens-of Athena, the Biblical Eve and Noah, Coronis, and others-function in Jamison's essay...

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...

Here, in one volume, are the stories that transformed Sherlock Holmes into a household name: the fateful first meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson inA Study in Scarlet, the mysterious treasure ofThe Sign of the Four, the formidable Irene Adler of A...

A collaborative book by two extraordinary Black artists about finding beauty in the chaos. Roger Mooking is well-known as a celebrity chef and the host of such television shows as the Cooking Channel's Man Fire Food and Everyday Exotic; he is...

From Ellen Datlow - 'the venerable queen of horror anthologies' per the New York Times - comes a new entry in the series that has brought you thrilling stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, the best horror stories available.For...

"Caniff visualized his setup with a cinematic flair that remains thrilling because it is played straight." -The New Yorker"Arguably the greatest of all adventure strips." - The WashingtonPostThe saga continues inTerry and the PiratesVolume 6, reproduced...

"Before Caniff introduced the Dragon Lady to Pat Ryan, before Burma and Raven Sherman and NormandieDrake fell for our hero, there was not a hint of sex-real sex-to be found in the American newspaper strip. Caniff changed all that." - Jules FeifferThe...

Volume 2 of this landmark series-reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs-features the iconic 1936 daily and Sunday adventures, which continue their separate paths until the end of August when the stories-and cast of...

Best Literary Translations is a new, annual anthology that celebrates world literatures in English translation and honors the translators who create and literary journals that publish this work.Best Literary Translations 2024 features both contemporary...

Should we alter animals' DNA to save them from extinction? What secrets will old ice reveal to us about the Earth's deep past? How is the world's most expensive - and explosive - substance made?Great science writing offers fascinating insights into our...

Whether it's man's best friend or the king of the jungle, animals occupy a central place in our social, emotional and cultural lives. We're happy as clams or pigs in mud; we hold our horses or take a lion's share of what we want; we avoid the elephant in...

Calvaria Fell is a stunning collaborative collection of weird tales from two acclaimed authors, Kaaron Warren and Cat Sparks. It features previously published stories from both authors, along with a new novella by Kaaron Warren and four new stories by...

**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...

It was an age of adventure.An age of sorcery.An age of unrelenting horror.Sword and sorcery and pulp horror go hand-in-hand. Sinister enchanters working foul magic. Hideous beasts lurking in shadowy dungeons. Blasphemous elder gods uncoiling from...

Dark tales inspired by J. M. Barrie's classic stories of Neverland, Captain Hook, Tinkerbell, and of course Peter Pan, from some the masters of science-fiction, horror and fantasy including A. C. Wise, Claire North, Lavie Tidhar and more. Come...

From the fun of the fair to the depths of hell, experience sixteen more curses in this sequel to the bestselling Cursed: An Anthology. A blend of traditional and reimagined curses from fairy-tales to Snow White, from some of the best names in fantasy. BE...

Hailed in Europe, Guido Buzzelli has been called "the Michaelangelo of monsters," "the Goya of comics," and "the patron saint of all Italian cartoonists."A pioneer active from the 1950s-1980s, today virtually unknown in English, Buzzelli horrifies,...

Mapping the Futureoffers new work by all 30 writers supported byThe Complete Works project, including Warsan Shire, Raymond Antrobus, Mona Arshi, Roger Robinson, Inua Ellams, Malika Booker, Sarah Howe, Will Harris, Kayo Chingonyi, Jay Bernard, Yomi Sode...