Short Stories

The Women of Brewster Place

by Gloria Naylor

Once the home of poor Irish and Italian immigrants, Brewster Place, a rotting tenement on a dead-end street, now shelters black families. This novel portrays the courage, the fear, and the anguish of some of...

The Pacific and Other Stories

by Mark Helprin

At long last, almost ten years since his previous book, Mark Helprin returns with The Pacific and Other Stories, a collection of sixteen stories that display the remarkable scope, incomparable wit, and deft...

Magic for Beginners

by Kelly Link

An engaging and funny second collection by an original voice.

Antipodes

by Ignacio Padilla & Alastair Reid

From the author of the award-winning novel Shadow Without a Name, comes Antipodes, the first collection of his short fiction to be translated into English. This lively, eclectic, and highly imaginative volume...

The Apple's Bruise: Stories

by Lisa Glatt

From the bestselling author of A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That, a moving, disturbing, and utterly original collection of stories that examine a universe where memory and fact collide, and the imagination fills...

Follies: New Stories

by Ann Beattie

Ann Beattie's Follies is a superb novella and collection of stories about adult children, aging parents, and the chance encounters that irrevocably alter lives. Beattie, winner of four O. Henry prizes, has been...

Transgressions

by Ed McBain

Forge Books is proud to present an amazing collection of novellas, compiled by New York Times bestselling author Ed McBain. Transgressions is a quintessential classic of never-before-published tales from today's...

Bleedout: A Novel

by Joan Brady

"Watch your back most

carefully when someone you

trust steps behind you."

Even after Hugh Freyl lost his sight he was invincible. But late one night, in the library of the elite law firm that bears his name,...

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

by Carson McCullers

A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers’s best stories, including her beloved novella “The Ballad of the Sad Café.” A haunting tale of a human...

Louisiana Dawn

by Jennifer Blake

Love has ten thousand names and a million different faces.History will surely agree that Americaís most destructive contribution to 20th century living has been that damaged product called plastic romance....

Spider Kiss

by Harlan Ellison

Pure, 100-proof distillation of Ellison. A righteous verbal high! Here you'll find twenty of his very best stories and essays (including the four-part "Scenes from the Real World), an anecdotal history of the...

Over Her Dear Body

by Richard S. Prather

A brilliant collection of Harlan Ellisonís short fiction, featuring an introduction by Norman Spinrad.Table of Contents: Foreword: The Frontiers Of Edgeville by Norman Spinrad Introduction: Brinkmanship by...

How to Fall: Stories

by Edith Pearlman

Chosen by Joanna Scott as winner of the 2003 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.

The Deadly Streets

by Harlan Ellison

Remember Charles Bronson stalking the streets of New York blowing holes in muggers in Death Wish? Remember Glenn Ford standing off the vicious juvenile delinquents in Blackboard Jungle? Well, it's more than...

No Decent Gentleman

by Patricia Grasso

YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR BUT FEAR ITSELF! The only trouble is, fear comes in so many different shapes and sizes these days. It comes as rejection by a beautiful woman. It comes in the brutalization of your love...

Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy

by Jean Webster & Elaine Showalter

One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace her development...

How to Swallow a Pig

by Robert Priest

This collection of Robert Priest's short prose includes bizarre sexual parables, hilarious science fiction, fables, text-tangles, dirty stories, lush love letters, re-visionary fairy tales, predictions, strange...

Carmen Dog

by Carol Emshwiller

Funny feminist classic; a genre-jumping debut novel.

Why Dogs Chase Cars

by George Singleton

These fourteen funny stories tell the tale of a beleaguered boyhood down home where the dogs still run loose. As a boy growing up in the tiny backwater town of Forty-Five, South Carolina (where everybody is...

The Dark

by Ellen Datlow

Ghosts are among us. On the other side of death, the spirits of departed souls have been part of human myths and beliefs as long as anyone can recall. Some of the most powerful and affecting images in fiction...