This collection of 15 of Dave Eggers's stories includes some that have been highly acclaimed and several that have never been published before. 'Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance' is about a young man coping with his cousin'...

Stephen King had such fun recording the epic, unabridged audio version of his haunting novel Bag of Bones, he decided to publish the three-story collection Blood and Smoke exclusively on audio. They're horror stories, good and dark, l...

'Exhilarating, like a swift ride through river rapids with a spunky, sexy gal handling the oars.'—Washington Post Book World In Pam Houston's critically acclaimed collection of strong, shrewd, and very funny stories, we meet sma...

Robert Olen Butler served as a translator in Vietnam. In A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN, he draws on his experience with that country to write about about postwar Vietnamese TmigrTs in New Orleans, and the Americans whose lives ...

More diabolical tales of suspense. More nerve-jangling shocks.'The grand master of the plot twist' (Booklist) is back.... New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, who crafted first-rate thrills in the collected stories of Twi...

The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. 'Power and haunting,' and 'nights of unrest' were typical reader responses. This collection, t...

By the #1 bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, Bella Tuscany and In Tuscany, Swan is a haunting novel set in the deep South -- a resonant tale of long-buried family secrets and mysteries brought suddenly to light.In her celebra...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as "one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years" (Baltimore Sun), with "prose as lu...

In conventional fiction, war heroes return home minus an arm or a leg--or, to take Hemingway's worst-case scenario, the family jewels. In Aimee Bender's deeply unconventional collection, however, an even more suggestive body part goe...

This collection brings together Dahl's finest work, illustrating his genius for the horrific and grotesque which is unparalleled. 'Dahl has the mastery of plot and characters possessed by great writers of the past, along with a wildne...

With the same wit and sensitivity that have come to characterize her highly praised and beloved novels Animal Dreams and The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver gives us a rich and emotionally resonant collection of twelve stories. Spreadi...

Winner of the National Book AwardThe publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not a...

A San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune Best Book of the YearIn these ten glittering stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like gi...

A series of stories whose shared themes of loss, discovery, and connections with others bind them together as a unified whole. The settings, mostly urban, include a newspaper office, a 1950s coffeehouse, and menacing, wild landscapes....

Napoleon's presumptuous but unsung hero, the Brigadier Gerard, faces certain death at every turn while outwitting the enemies of France as he careens across Europe during the Napoleonic Wars. This series of eight stories includes: I) ...

The New York Times Book Review has noted, 'Alice Hoffman writes quite wonderfully about the magic in our lives,' and now she casts her spell over a Long Island neighborhood filled with dreamers and dreams. In a dazzling series of fami...

A brilliant collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies.Hilary Mantel is one of the world's most accomplished, acclaimed and garlanded writers. Uniquely, her last tw...

Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her reader...

"The Corn Maiden" is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet, but somewhat slow, eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk. Her single mother comes home one night to find her missing and panics,...

Nine brave, wise, and spellbinding stories make up this award-winning debut. In 'When She is Old and I Am Famous' a young woman confronts the inscrutable power of her cousin's beauty. In 'Note to Sixth-Grade Self' a band of popular gi...

While Blandings Castle sleeps in the summer sun, Galahad Threepwood, brother of the Earl of Emsworth, writes his Memoirs. But Galahad has led a thoroughly misspent life, and his acquaintances can easily recall their past follies in hi...

Available only on audio, this collection of three unabridged short stories featuring two never before publishedincludes "1408," where a bestselling ghost story writer must spend the night in New York City's most haunted hote...

...a fascinating book, a you-won't-be-able-to-put-it-down read and probably the most exciting nonfiction book I have yet read this fall....Accompanied by illustrations from the newspapers of the day and black-and-white historical phot...

In this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. Chaon mi...

Incest is a chilling tale of sexual experimentation and philosophical exploration carried to its most logical—and devastating—extreme. Foreword by Janet Street–Porter. Marquis de Sade’s semi–autobiograph...

A hilarious re-imagining of the heroes of the Old Testament for a modern world—and the neurotic, demanding reader.In the beginning...there was humor. Sure, it's the foundation for much of Western morality and the cornerstone of worl...

A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Work of FictionA Best Book of the Year: The Atlantic, NPR, Vogue, AV ClubIn story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is foreve...

In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his lyrical writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits. The backdrop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf ...

In nine strikingly perceptive stories set miles and decades apart, Laura Furman mines the intricate, elusive lives of mothers and daughters—and of women who long for someone to nurture. Meet Rachel, a young girl desperate for her mo...

In a series of stories that are shocking, sexy, charming, and ultimately unforgettable, Miranda July explores the hearts and minds of characters who are desperate for human connection and yet don't know what to do when it actually hap...