A prestigious anthology series, Best American Fantasy is guest edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, with Matthew Cheney serving as the series editor, showcasing the best North American fantasy short fiction from the preceding year.

The Stoker Award-winning chilling anthology of 18 short stories in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today’s best horror writers. Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, ...

A Bone-Chilling Collection of Tales Packed With Horrific Ghosts, Malevolent Spirits and the Poor Living Souls They HauntEveryone loves a good ghostly scare. From stories around the campfire to reading Goosebumps under the covers, you ...

RThis new anthology represents the most outstanding new short stories and novellas by both contemporary masters of horror and exciting newcomers. The award-winning series offers a chilling overview of this year in horror.

Are you laid off, downsized, undersized? Call us. We employ. 1-800-555-0606 How lucky do you feel? So reads the business card from LIMBUS, INC., a shadowy employment agency that operates at the edge of the normal world. LIMBUS's emplo...

Dubbed “the American Tolkien” by Time magazine, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin is a giant in the field of fantasy literature and one of the most exciting storytellers of our time. Now he delivers ...

George R. R. Martin, from his introduction to Warriors:“People have been telling stories about warriors for as long as they have been telling stories. Since Homer first sang the wrath of Achilles and the ancient Sumerians set down t...

Radclyffe is on a mission: she wants to rock your world every single year. And she does. We marvel at every year's batch of annual excellence. Swooningly romantic, shudderingly erotic, poundingly good prose that will tug at your heart...

Love conquers all… including natural disasters and alien invasions in this contemporary fiction collection.

A collection of favorite contemporary and classical short fiction works, selected by the author of Barrel Fever and Me Talk Pretty One Day, includes pieces by such writers as Alice Munro, Tobias Wolff, and Joyce Carol Oates. Original....

Winning it big. That's the name of the game at Las Vegas's Liege Hotel and Casino, where the hottest fantasies hinge on the roll of the dice and the tantalizing knowledge that anything could happen before sunrise. Cocktail waitress C...

Featuring eight stories as diverse as the authors’ backgrounds, this fast-paced compilation is the first urban fiction collection of all female narratives. This engrossing and entertaining compendium offers an edgy look into the...

From the Horror Writers Association comes a brand-new collection of darkly humorous tales! The Big Questions of Life (and Death) Can a killer's basement blood-feast be a tax write-off (under Entertainment)? Not if Vlad the IRS agent n...

The Cthulhu Mythos is one of the 20th century''s most singularly recognizable literary creations. Initially created by H. P. Lovecraft and a group of his amorphous contemporaries (the so-called "Lovecraft Circle"), The Cthul...

Twenty curses, old and new, from bestselling fantasy authors such as Neil Gaiman, Karen Joy Fowler, Christina Henry, M.R. Carey and Charlie Jane Anders.ALL THE BETTER TO READ YOU WITHIt's a prick of blood, the bite of an apple, the ev...

A suspenseful collection of sixteen interconnected stories--written by Lee Child, Lynda La Plante, Jane Haddam, Peter Robinson, and Laura Lippman, among others--takes readers from the year 1800 to the present and centers around an unl...

Five best-selling authors present original short stories inspired by the real-life heroines who, due to their commitment to helping others, from starting a sports league for special-needs kids, to creating a relaxing haven for cancer ...

An anthology of Occult (a.k.a supernatural) Detective stories assembled by Justin Gustainis and featuring new stories by: Tanya Huff, C. T. Adams and Cathy Clamp, Simon R. Green, Tim Pratt, Chris Marie Green, Lilith Saintcrow, Rachel ...

This trio of irresistible stories from New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Maggie Shayne and USA TODAY bestselling authors Linda Winstead Jones and Day Leclaire touch the heart of who we are and what we desire….Prepare t...

Offering a mix of classic and contemporary fiction, this funny, sensual, delectable collection serves up literary morsels to please every food lover. Delicious tales about food and eating by authors such as M. F. K. Fisher, Anton Chek...

From elves to changelings, this enchanting collection of twelve original stories celebrates the inhabitants of magical realms of Faerie as they engage in mortal trickery, and features contributions from such noted authors as Charles D...

A Victorian Christmas Tea is sure to be the romance hit of the season. Each of the four novellas in this charming anthology is set in a different region of nineteenth-century America, and each involves a delightful Christmas tea. Whol...

This Christmas, celebrate the joys of the season with a trio of exquisitely crafted, richly romantic tales by three of the brightest stars in contemporary fiction—bestselling authors Kay Hooper, Iris Johansen, and Fayrene Presto...

The acclaimed annual short fiction series--this year featuring guest editor Walter Mosley, creator of the Easy Rawlins mystery series--showcases the work of such notable authors as Louise Erdirch, Dorothy Allison, Edwidge Danticat, Da...

Hilarity, suspense, and high drama are offered up in the mix of tales of travel to locales familiar and exotic found on this three-CD compilation from National Public Radio's Selected Shorts. An award-winning series of classic and con...

The Thanksgiving Fix by Vicki Lewis ThompsonFinding Mr. Right is the furthest thing from Beth Davis's mind when the Reno professor takes Thanksgiving break at a colleague's Lake Tahoe cabin. Until Coinneach McFarland arrives to fix a ...

Who can melt any woman's heart with a single smile? The sexiest icon of all- a fireman!They enter fiery structures with selfless courage--the very definition of the word "hero." Women understand their allure... A soot-covere...

On Solstice eve long ago, a Druid priestess and Norse warrior succumb to forbidden, erotic desire. Their passion is one that neither death, decree—nor time—can tear asunder.Now three women of later centuries begin their own sensua...

Bold Strokes Books romance authors give readers a glimpse into the lives of favorite couples celebrating special moments "after the honeymoon ends." These short stories from Ali Vali, Clifford Henderson, Lee Lynch, Lisa Giro...

This vital collection of stories about work will be a lasting chronicle of how Americans are employed, how they find work and leave it, refuse it or scorn it, how it defines, fascinates, frustrates and ennobles us. Richard Ford's anth...