Short stories from around the world, many from lesser authors. Adult fairy tales, and ghost and horror tales. Twenty-eight stories. Authors like Silverberg, Egan, Stableford, Ian McDonald and James Patrick Kelly.
Short Stories
- Author:DATLOW, EllenSummary:
- Author:WRIGHT, GeoffreySummary:
Humorous Australian short stories.
- Author:DOWNIE, Mary AliceSummary:
The witch canoe, The spectre, The serpent of Lorette, La corriveau, A la Sainte-Catherine, The man from Labrador, The three devils, The loup-garou, How the devil got his cat.
- Author:Dubus, AndreSummary:
This volume brings together Andre Dubus' third and fourth collections of short stories and novellas--Finding a Girl in America and The Times Are Never So Bad--with a thought-provoking new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning...
- Author:Croza, Laurel, Garrity-Riley, KelseySummary:
Charity takes small steps to escape her controlling father. Jasmine endures the rumors about her at school, even though no one really knows what happened last summer. The Oh! So Perfect Hair Dolly wishes for just the right child to take...
- Author:Sparks, AmberSummary:
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
Indomitable detective Hercule Poirot is pitted against nine cunning adversaries in nine tales of murder, deception, terror, disappearance, and suspense.
- Author:MORTIMER, JohnSummary:
Six amusing stories of the erudite and witty defending barrister, upholding the principle of the accused being presumed innocent until proven guilty.
- Author:LAURENCE, MargaretSummary:
The ten stories gathered together in "The Tomorrow-Tamer" are Margaret Laurence's first published fiction. Set in raucous and often terrifying Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish...
- Author:NIVEN, LarrySummary:
Two stories from `A science fiction argosy'. 1. The third level by Larry Niven 2. Becalmed in hell by J. Finney.
- Author:Milne, A. A.Summary:
The Sunny Side is a long-forgotten collection of short stories and poems by A.A. Milne. Though Milne is best known for his classic children's books, these tales for adults shine just as brightly, full of wit and wisdom. From summer...
- Author:Yalfani, MehriSummary:
Mehri Yalfani’s stories in The Street of Butterflies feature Iranian women dealing with displacement, cultural change, and struggles for survival and adaptation as immigrants in North America. At the same time, the challenges...
- Author:MOWAT, FarleySummary:
Central to Farley Mowat's writing is his quest to understand the often-forgotten native people of the vast arctic wilderness. In this moving collection, he allows these people to describe in their own words the adventures they...
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Presents six short stories by the masters of mystery and horror.
- Author:OBERMAN, SheldonSummary:
Just a few short decades ago, Inuit families roamed one of the harshest climates on the planet, communing with nature and living in uncluttered harmony with their environment. Simon Tookoome, then just a child, was one of those people...
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
In this inviting collection, Agatha Christie enlists the services of her finest--Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Parker Pyne--and puts them each to the test in the most challenging cases of their careers.
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- Author:MCFARLANE, LeslieSummary:
Includes the stories: The Mystery of Spider Lake, Trouble at Coogan's Rest, and The Mask of the Snow Hawk.
- Author:Coulter, MyrlSummary:
Secrets aren’t good for families. — from “Big Luck Island” In The Left-Handed Dinner Party and Other Stories—a collection of new, delightful, distinctive short stories—everyone is missing something or someone; every family is riven by...
- Author:Tolstoy, LeoSummary: