Dark Stars, edited by John F.D. Taff, is a tribute to horror's longstanding short fiction legacy, featuring 12 terrifying original stories from today's most noteworthy authors, with an introduction by bestselling author Josh...
Short stories
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Author:Malerman, Josh, Campbell, RamseySummary: - Author:Walsh, AnnSummary:
The result of a cross-Canada contest for the best short stories about young people’s experience of loss and grief, Dark Times is a superb anthology about a topic that often remains hidden but is crucial in the development of a child’s...
- Author:Maberry, JonathanSummary:
This collection of five stories set in "the Spookiest Town in America" includes "Long Way Home," "Mister Pockets," "Property Condemned," "Whistlin' past the Graveyard," and the new story "The Trouble," a sequel to the Pine Deep trilogy...
- Author:Fried, GoldaSummary:
These stories are diary shreds of young women who are in school but things happen anyway. Girls with their hears open like agar petri dishes. The setting could be Toronto, Montreal, New Orleans, a Gothic castle or a bathtub. What people...
- Author:Rioux, Hélène, Kaplansky, JonathanSummary:
In this collection of ten short stories, the main characters -- women between the ages of 13 to 88 -- see death appear suddenly in their daily lives: in the pages of a novel written by a former lover, in a farewell letter abandoned on a...
- Author:Showalter, ElaineSummary:
At the turn of the century, short stories by--and often about--"New Women" flooded the pages English and American magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, and the Yellow Book. This daring new fiction, often innovative in form...
- Author:O'Neill, HeatherSummary:
From "The Robot Baby," in which we discover what happens when a robot feels emotion for the very first time, to "Heaven," about a grandfather who died for a few minutes when he was nine and visited the pearly gates, to "The Little Wolf-...
- Author:Benlabed, SalahSummary:
Dans les vingt récits de ce recueil, Salah Benlabed suit la piste des humbles et des naïfs, des patients et des résignés, des sages aussi ; de ceux, en fait, qui se fondent dans la foule, ici et ailleurs, et dont on ne raconte pas les...
- Author:HANSEN, DerekSummary:
Funny, frightening, fascinating and always fishy. A highly original collection of stories with a watery theme.
- Author:Greenwood, Therese, Malan, VioletteSummary:
Over eighty per cent of Canadians live near a body of waterand that means when Canadians turn to crime, somebody usually ends up all wet. In this anthology of original crime fiction, editors Violette Malan and Therese Greenwood...
- Author:Halliday, BrettSummary:
A double shot of iconic Miami PI Mike Shayne-"one of the best of the tough sleuths" (The New York Times). Dead Man's Diary: Florida private investigator Mike Shayne's in New Orleans at the behest of a distraught wife...
- Author:Yee, Paul, Chan, HarveySummary:
These ten original ghost stories dramatize the history of Chinese immigration to North America -- from the poor village men who first came searching for gold in the late 1850s to the new immigrants who arrived from Hong Kong in the wake...
- Author:L'Amour, LouisSummary:
A collection of three stories by Louis L'Amour: "Black Rock," "Gamble of the KT," and "Showdown Trail."
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Mystery Writers of America presents a collection of crime and mystery stories from some of the best contemporary authors, all of whom have been invited to put their own unique spin on what it means to recognize a certain day or event...
- Author:Munro, AliceSummary:
This collection of stories illuminates moments that shape a life, from a dream or a sexual act to simple twists of fate that turn a person out of his or her accustomed path and into another way of being.
- Author:Bhat, ShashiSummary:
In this dazzling collection of stories, characters confront the painful absurdities and everyday horrors that come with being a woman. A writer discovers that her ex-boyfriend has published a novel about their breakup. An...
- Author:Godfrey, Dave, Henderson, LeeSummary:
Originally published in 1967, Dave Godfrey’s debut collection features stories about hunting — in Florida, in Africa, and in northern Ontario. They are about the interplay of gun and subway, decoy and stock market, guide and draft...
- Author:Rivecca, SuzanneSummary:
A collection of stories features the tales of a potential home renter who is sucked into a strangely inappropriate correspondence with her landlord, and a teacher obsessed with a student who comes to school with scratches on his face....
- Author:Myre, Suzanne, Hildebrand, CassidySummary:
Death may seem a grim subject matter but, in the capable hands of Suzanne Myre, nothing is beyond humour. Though at times sincere, sorrowful, and even a tad gruesome, Death Sentences is also wry, mordant, and amusingly ironic.Death...
- Author:Hardcastle, KevinSummary:
The eleven remarkable stories in Kevin Hardcastle's debut Debris introduce an authentic new voice. Written in a lean and muscular style and brimming with both violence and compassion, these stories unflinchingly explore the lives of...
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