Short Stories

Apartment Building E

by Malachi King

Jack Bronson desperately needs a job. In fact, there isn't much he'd say no to if it meant a paycheck to keep a roof over his family's head. When an opportunity arises to become the maintenance worker at an...

Checkout Time

by Lee Hammerschmidt

Jasper, a semi-retired senior citizen, is the night-shift desk clerk at a sleazy "no-tell" hotel. In debt to local mobster Nick Picante due to his gambling problem, Jasper is forced to participate in one last...

Bakerloo Line Train

by Tim Reed

John wants to turn his life around, and that starts with a marriage proposal to his girlfriend. All that's standing between him and this act is a simple journey on the London Underground. Except that this journey...

Doxology

by Tim Black

Rhett Butler, the runt of a litter of dachshunds, is born with magical healing powers. Working with his master he begins to heel various infirmities until the AMA learns about him and goes after him for actually...

Midnight Special

by Victor J. Banis

Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1949 - the Las Vegas of its day. A prison legend says that when a man sees the headlight of the ghost train, The Midnight Special, it means he's going free--but what freedom can there...

Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction

by Amy Bloom

BONUS: This edition contains a Where the God of Love Hangs Out discussion guide.

Love, in its many forms and complexities, weaves through this collection by Amy Bloom, theNew York Times bestselling author of ...

Los Angeles Stories

by Ry Cooder

World-famous musician Ry Cooder publishes his first collection of stories, with a nod to Raymond Chandler and Nathanael West.

Forever Rumpole: The Best of the Rumpole Stories

by John Mortimer

John Mortimer—novelist, playwright, memoirist, and the author of more than eighty Rumpole short stories—will never be forgotten. While still a practicing barrister, Mortimer took up the pen, and the rest...

The Delicate Prey: And Other Stories

by Paul Bowles

Exemplary storles that reveal the blzarre, the dlsturblng, the perllous, and the wlse ln other clvlllzatlons -- from one of Amerlca's most lmportant wrlters of the twentleth century.

Fast Lanes

by Jayne Anne Phillips

Jayne Anne Phillips has always been a master of portraiture, both in her widely acclaimed novels and in her short fiction.  The stories in Fast Lanes demonstrated the breadth of her talent in a tour de force...

Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories Of Shirley Jackson

by Shirley Jackson

The stories in this edition represent the great diversity of her work, from humor to her shocking explorations of the human psyche. The tales range, chronologically, from the writings of her college days and...

Serenade for Baboons

by Noel Langley & Herbert van Thal

Noel Langley - Serenade for Baboons

The Doctor cannot understand why his neighbours only listen to the local Witch Doctor. After all - he teaches modern medicine. But when terror takes hold of him, this dark...

The Copper Bowl

by George Fielding Eliot & Herbert van Thal

George Fielding Eliot - The Copper Bowl

In this gruesome tale, a soldier refuses to become a traitor - but his lover's stomach is not so strong . . . Pan Macmillan are proud to present a brand new reissue of...

Hope And Other Stories

by Laura Hird

Urban tales of despair and dysfunction are Laura Hird's trademark and she does not disappoint in Hope and Other Urban Tales. Set in the low-rent areas of Edinburgh, Hird's slices of reality are gritty, bleak...

The Unknown Errors of Our Lives: Stories

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

In nine poignant stories spiked with humor and intelligence, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni captures lives at crossroad moments–caught between past and present, home and abroad, tradition and fresh experience....

Delta Blues

by Carolyn Haines

This collection of short fiction captures both the art of the tale and the power of the blues, and is a nod at the human condition that often inspires musicians to write and sing the blues.

The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks

by Russell Banks

With The Angel on the Roof, Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories...

Light Lifting

by Alexander MacLeod

A suite of dark, unflinching elegies for a working-class city and community driven to the brink.

Once

by Rebecca Rosenblum

A collection of sixteen stories portraying the constricted and confused lives of the rootless twenty-somethings who inhabit them.

Quickening

by Terry Griggs

The stories in Quickening crackle with energy -- they are eccentric, wildly inventive, whimsical and fantastic.