A small European village tucked into a black leather handbag, a convenience store with pajama-clad clerks and zombie customers, the messy divorce of a living man and a dead woman, and a rural house haunted by rabbits are some of the m...

In the fall of 1959, John Howard Griffin used medical treatments to darken the color of his skin and then set out on an odyssey through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, a white man travelling as a black man in order to fi...

Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. A family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya scurries to find gi...

Firmly established in her new home in the sleepy village of Sawrey, England, Beatrix Potter turns sleuth once again to investigate the suspicious death of local shepherd Ben Hornby, a kindly man with no apparent enemies, joining force...

Amy Bloom was nominated for a National Book Award for her first collection, Come to Me, and her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Story, Antaeus, and other magazines, and in The Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The...

Denish Johnson's now classic story collection chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost souls, a violent and disordered landscape that encompasses every extreme of American culture. These are stories of transcendence and spira...

Six Christmas stories from the pages of Isaac Asimov's sci-fi magazine, along with two original tales, are presented here in a special holiday gift book that includes "Adaptation," "In Coppelius's Toyshop," and &qu...

The only comprehensive collection of short fiction by the internationally popular novelist available contains all thirty-six stories of romance and political intrigue from the three volumes 12 Red Herrings, A Twist in the Tale, and A ...

What if every time you pushed a button you received $50,000...but someone you didn't know died? Would you still push the button? How many times?'Button, Button', which inspired a memorable Twilight Zone episode, is just one of a dozen...

All the stories are told with the skill which the author has perfected over the years, narrated with meticulous precision in a voice that is unmistakably Ontarian in its lack of emphasis, its sly humor and willingness to live with a m...

This is the collection that established Flannery O'Connor's reputation as a one of the American masters of the short story. This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writers to eme...

Roth’s debut book, a novella and short stories about Jews in contemporary America, won a National Book Award in 1959 and established him as an important writer. While his insight into the Jewish-American experience won him a lar...

Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Fiction: "The rural rootedness and gentle humour of R.K. Narayan with the literary sophistication and stylishness of Jhumpa Lahiri."—Financial Times Passing from the mannered d...

[O]f all [Byatt's] fictions, it now seems to me that it is the short stories that are most likely to endure....[M]y reaction to these stories is one of joy in their exhilaration, intelligence, boldness and inventiveness, and a sort of...

Renowned as a master of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has long delighted readers around the world with his exquisitely crafted prose. Brimming with unforgettable characters and set in exotic locales, his fiction transports ...

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author hailed by The New Yorker as "a virtuoso of waking dreams" comes a dazzling new collection of darkly comic stories united by their obsession with obsession. In Dangerous Laughter, Stev...

Troubled Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins of the L.A.P.D. finds two apparently disparate cases becoming one and centering on the fiendish psychiatrist, Doctor John the Night Tripper, as the two square off in a life or death struggle. ...

Through fiction of dazzling skill and astonishing emotional force, Siobhan Fallon welcomes readers into the American army base at Fort Hood, Texas, where U.S. soldiers prepare to fight, and where their families are left to cope after...

A new collection of stories from a writer at the height of her powers—a celebrated stylist admired for her caustic humor, freewheeling imagination, love of humanity and wicked powers of observation. This is a delightful grouping of ...

This collection of short stories by Chinese-born writer Ha Jin contains meditations on characters in the margin: a homosexual husband, counter help at an American fast-food restaurant, and a happy amnesiac satisfied in his new life. H...

Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned.  Interwoven with themes of brutality and fai...

A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite FrançaiseWritten between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of Nemirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Française: a keen eye for the d...

These 19 stories are often violent or are about people with violent pasts, including a teacher who seduces a disturbed boy, a woman whose ideal life is broken apart by the events of 9/11, and a pair of siblings who return to the scene...

A reissue of Nic Pizzolatto's debut short story collection, now featuring two previously uncollected stories. Set in variety of Southern landscapes, these startling stories excavate the ambiguous terrain of the human heart. Pizzalotto...

Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen--Here is the effect of these two books,- wrote the Chicago Tribune: -A reader finishes them buzzing with awe--Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in...

The master of horror and suspense turns his pen to more subtle storytelling in these five interconnected stories in which he explores the darker sides of human nature as he chronicles the 1960s and their aftermath in American life. Re...

Stephen King -- who has written more than fifty books, dozens of number one New York Times bestsellers, and many unforgettable movies -- delivers an astonishing collection of short stories, his first since Everything's Eventual six ye...

J.D. Salinger's writing is original, first rate, serious and beautiful. Here are nine of his stories, and one further reason that they are so interesting, and so powerful seen all together, is that they are paradoxes. From the outside...

A far-ranging collection of stories, first published in 1983, encompasses childhood memories, thoughts on the reality of parents growing old, exotic friends, mundane lives, unexpected loves, and the inner world of hidden places we hid...

Frank Abagnale was possibly the world's most talented con artist. A high school dropout, Abagnale amassed millions of dollars by passing bad checks, playing the role of an airline pilot (including actually flying commercial airplanes)...