Fiction - Anthologies

"Truman Capote makes whiskey-soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen pond in Gloucestershire; and Shirley Jackson is outwitted by a wily Santa Claus at the bank. Ghosts haunt the Christmases of Muriel Spark and Elizabeth Bowen, while Dostoyevsky, Daphne du Maurier...

A revelatory and richly varied collection of Korea's greatest short stories A Penguin Classic This eclectic, moving, and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Literary Hub The best in short fiction from around the world, from celebrated anthologist and author John Freeman and award-winning novelist Rabih Alameddine In The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, writers from different nations,...

The best poetry and prose from the past quarter century of The Pushcart Prize editions selected by two multi-prize-winning editors. - Philip Schultz (Pulitzer Prize in Poetry); Bill Henderson (Highest Honors American Academy of Arts and Letters). Praise for The Pushcart Book of Twenty-First...

The annual international gathering of the best fiction, poetry, essays and memoirs from small, independent, literary presses, including more than 60 selections from 50 presses, chosen with the advice of 180 distinguished contributing editors.Author: Bill HendersonPublisher: Pushcart PressPublished: 12/03/2024Pages: 560Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.18h...

The annual international gathering of the best fiction, poetry, essays and memoirs from small, independent, literary presses, including more than 60 selections from 50 presses, chosen with the advice of 180 distinguished contributing editors.Author: Bill HendersonPublisher: Pushcart PressPublished: 12/03/2024Pages: 560Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.64lbsSize: 9.51h...

You've been here before. You've spun THE RACK, marveling over the garish covers and embossed titles that drip blood or sprout teeth. Perhaps you've even held a few, skimming the back cover to figure out what story could possibly inspire such lurid images. But...

It's 1980 and you have three crisp dollar bills in your pocket. You run to the drugstore, or maybe the supermarket, because you know THE RACK will be there, waiting... that black wire rack, tempting you with the latest and best horror paperbacks and...

The debut collection of stories from the National Book-Award winning author of Europe Central From a writer who has won comparison with Thomas Pynchon and William S. Burroughs comes thirteen unnerving and often breathtaking stories populated by punks and angels, skinheads and religious assassins,...

The Road Ahead is the perfect graduation gift: a thought-provoking volume of advice and motivation from literary heavyweights who have stood the test of time. Classic writers and philosophers including Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen and Booker T. Washington provide guiding words of wisdom and...

Author: Amanjot SandhuPublisher: Real Good AIPublished: 10/09/2026Pages: 534Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.44dISBN: 9798998389405About the AuthorSandhu, Amanjot: - Science and Social Media Communicator at Real Good AI a 501(c)3 research nonprofit created by content creators and PhD scientists coming together to...

Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists. Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme,...

THE INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Enemies become lovers, rivalry turns to romance, and convenient marriages create true love in these 12 addictive Romantasy tales. Featuring Olivie Blake, Kelley Armstrong, Katherine Arden, Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Tasha Suri, Melissa Marr and more. Fall in love with...

Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of the House of...

The first-ever collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, culled from rare 19th-century periodicals During the Victorian era, it became traditional for publishers of newspapers and magazines to print ghost stories during the Christmas season for chilling winter reading by the fireside or candlelight. Now...

Shirley Jackson Award Nominee - Longlisted for the Bram Stoker AwardWhat if there were a whole world of great horror fiction out there you didn't know anything about, written by authors in distant lands and in foreign languages, outstanding horror stories you had no...

The touching story of The Velveteen Rabbit is a magical tale about the bond between a little boy and his favourite toy animal. It's a story about the transforming power of love that has been enjoyed by generations since it was first published in...

The three long stories in this volume show the range and virtuosity of Italy's most imaginative writer. "Like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez, Italo Calvino dreams perfect dreams for us" (John Updike, New Yorker).Translated by William Weaver and Archibald Colquhoun. A Helen...

From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth...

Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features short stories by great 19- and 20th-century writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe. Included are Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," in which two waiters and a lonely customer in a Spanish cafe...