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First time in Black Classics for more spooky and strange tales from one of the masters of horror fiction. Although Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel Dracula,...

Calling all ghosts and ghouls! Venture into 31 Days of Spooky -a fully illustrated, delightfully scary collection of short stories that will send a chill down your spine every day...

In the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending, time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy. During...

Radium Girl is a collection full of dark wonder where Sofi Papamarko explores the boundaries of love, death, loneliness and justice. In these twelve deft stories, we are introduced to...

The imaginative and refreshingly original debut short story collection by the bestselling author of Nothing to See Here In Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit...

Ian Rankin has amassed an incredible portfolio of short stories, which all share the best qualities of his phenomenally popular novels. Now his two critically acclaimed short story collections -...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a riveting, brilliantly funny and moving collection about the moments in life when everything...

Take a pinch of unease. Stir it into a large dollop of the macabre, add a generous helping of dark and stylish wit, garnish with the bizarre and what do...

A special edition collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime's legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors. This collection of twelve original short...

From the ancient Nile to the sacred Ganges to the mighty Mississippi-the rivers of the world wind through this glorious anthology from the world's great writers. Rivers and streams play...

Stories by a visionary master of supernatural fiction Volume two of this annotated edition of M. R. James's complete writings brings together tales from his final two works, A Thin...

Plt;bPgt;Pquot;A powerful, severe, and harshly comic portrayal of Irish immigrant life in lower New York exactly a century ago.Pquot; P#8212;Alfred KazinPlt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt; Plt;iPgt;MaggiePlt;/iPgt;, a powerful exploration of the destructive forces that...

Myths and Legends for a Greener World is a captivating collection of stories, retold by master folklorist Rosalind Kerven, all of which offer a new and inspiring perspective on the...

Following the success of The Secret Cases of Sherlock Holmes, a new group of unpublished tales of real-life crime is presented by Dr Watson from the documents in the famous...

Ry nosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. 'Rash mon'...

The only annotated edition of M. R. James's writings currently available Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories contains the entire first two volumes of James's ghost stories, Ghost Stories of...

'Outstandingly weird and memorable' GUARDIAN 'Deliciously creepy' NEW SCIENTIST Fear never dies... Featuring stories from Susan Barker, J K Chukwu, Bridget Collins, Mariana Enriquez, Michel Faber, Lewis Hancox, Emilia Hart,...

George Mackay Brown was born in Stromness, Orkney, on 17 October 1921. He died there in 1996. His many awards include a Society of Authors Travel Award, 1968; SAC Literature...

Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to...

The Best American Series(R) First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects...

"Precise and illuminating." - Bernardine Evaristo OBE. Shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Saboteur Awards, the Shirley Jackson Award and the Jhalak Prize. Lovelorn aliens abduct innocent...

Maugham's set of stories about his wartime spy John Ashenden, who prefigured James Bond with his exploits with exotic enemies and exotic women When war broke out in 1914, Somerset...

Step into the past. Rush headlong at the future. The Age of Calamities is here. Henry VIII wants Anne Boleyn dead, but there's just one small problem - she's alive...

Dazzling story collection from the highly acclaimed author of GREAT CIRCLE, shortlisted for the Booker prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED...

DISCOVER DU MAURIER AT HER DARKEST A stunning collection of thirteen chilling stories from the Godmother of Fear, introduced by international bestseller Stephen King. *** 'Her talent is a bright...

The dark, funny and ambitious early writings of one of Britain's best-loved writers. Jane Austen's name is synonymous with witty, cutting novels about the manners and money of Britain's high...

The twelve stories in Xuan Juliana Wang's funny and wise debut collection capture the unheard voices of a new generation of Chinese youth, a generation for whom the Cultural Revolution...

A stunningly crafted debut short story collection, The Blink That Kills the Eye takes a poetic torch to the shadows of daily life, illuminating the characters, situations, emotions and dilemmas...

The supernatural looms over the grime and sweat of everyday life in Lagos in this dazzling collection of stories from a prize-winning young Nigerian writer. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL...

SONNIE'S EDGE. The popular sport of 'beastie-baiting' involves contests to the death between artificial monsters controlled via human affinity bonds. Sonnie's team is particularly successful...but then her monster, 'Khanivore', has...

The book titled This is What Happens When You Don't Pay Attention by the author David Holden. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Enter a world of mystery and hauntings fair and foul . the best ghost stories you will read for a long time ... from the author of the bestselling Ancient...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. On sea, on land, at the...

The Ides of March/ A Costume Piece/ Gentlemen and Players/ Le Premier Pas/ Wilful Murder/ Nine Points of the Law/ The Return Match/ The Gift of the Emperor In these...

The book titled Canberra Tales: Stories by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From the Battle of Bull Run to current-day Iraq, war has fascinated some of the finest writers of the past two centuries, and now over a hundred of their vivid...

In this collection, acclaimed writer Mandy Sayer brings together nine of the best Australian examples of the long story - tales that combine the intensity of the short story with...

This work is an amazing collection of stories by four young writers. Four definite literary stars of the future - Chloe Hooper, Anna Kay, Jay Krantz and Mark Panozzo -...

The ultimate festive anthology of the best Christmas stories of all time, selected from around the world Truman Capote makes whisky-soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen...

A great cache of ancient, magical stories in the same tradition as The Arabian Nights Dating from at least a millennium ago, these are the earliest known Arabic short stories,...

An entrancing, otherworldly collection of short stories from one of Europe's most accomplished 20th century writers, new to Penguin Modern Classics A counter-prophet attempts the impossible to prove his power;...

A collection of chilling tales, ironic, unsettling, imbued with dread and with droll humour A dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment for dissatisfied wives. A mother auditions for her first...

Definitive collection of stories by this Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer's work explores humanity in all of its guises. This collection of forty-seven short stories, selected by Singer himself...

The definitive collection of Amis's deft and comic stories, now in paperback The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful,...

The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to...