Short Stories

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents

by H. G. Wells

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents was H. G. Wells' first collection of short stories, published in 1895. These fantasy and science fiction tales were all written between 1893 and 1895 and published in...

New Arabian Nights

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Considered by many to contain pioneering works of English writing, Robert Louis Stevenson's New Arabian Nights collects together his short stories that were originally published in periodicals between 1877 and...

How They Were Found

by Matt Bell

Matt Bell's often non-realist, always genre-bending stories combine sci-fi, mystery, and horror into innovative literary fiction.

Love Doesn't Work

by Henning Koch

Stories hilarious and haunting, characters reckless and wary, wise and wanting, Love Doesnt Work works absolutely.

Asunder

by Robert Lopez

The first story collection from Robert Lopez, whose previous work, Kamby Bolongo Mean River, earned him numerous comparisons to Samuel Beckett.

The Knife Thrower: and Other Stories

by Steven Millhauser

From the bestselling author of Martin Dressler comes a new collection of short stories that explore the magnificent obsessions of the unfettered imagination, as well as the darker, subterranean currents that...

The Mother Who Stayed: Stories

by Laura Furman

In nine strikingly perceptive stories set miles and decades apart, Laura Furman mines the intricate, elusive lives of mothers and daughters—and of women who long for someone to nurture. Meet Rachel, a young...

One More Story

by Ingo Schulze & John E. Woods

“A literary event” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung): thirteen new stories from one of Germany’s finest writers.

New Year’s Eve 1999, Berlin. At a party to kick off the twenty-first century, Frank Reichert...

Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It

by Maile Meloy

One of the most critically acclaimed books of the year from a master of the short story.

One of the most celebrated new writers of the last decade returns with an extraordinary collection of stories demonstrating...

Paddy Whacked

by S. Furlong-Bolliger

Inspector Helmes and his trusty sidekick, Watkins, know they have their work cut out for them in solving the murder of Paddy O'Toole, the Grand Leprechaun. However, nothing can prepare them for the strange lineup...

A Mobster's Toast to St. Patrick's Day

by Beth Mathison

For Jeremy, trying to be live a life outside of the "family business" isn't easy. First, there was the Thanksgiving dinner disaster of A MOBSTER'S GUIDE TO CRANBERRY SAUCE, followed by the Valentine's Day nightmare...

Tales of Hearsay

by Joseph Conrad

Although English was not his native tongue, Polish-born Joseph Conrad honed his language skills over his lifetime and would eventually become enshrined as one of the masters of English literature. As a sailor,...

Smith and the Pharaohs

by Henry Rider Haggard

Set sail for swashbuckling exploits with the author whose work inspired the creation of Indiana Jones. Fans of classic action fiction will love this collection of tales set in exotic locations around the globe,...

Monday or Tuesday

by Virginia Woolf

Interested in diving into the works of brilliant modernist author Virginia Woolf, but don't know where to start? Try Monday or Tuesday, a collection of eight short stories originally published in 1921. Although...

Forty Stories

by Anton Chekhov & Robert Payne

If any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from relating...

The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn and Other Stories

by John Buchan & Giles Foden

A new selection of short stories by "the prince of thriller writers" (The Times, London)

The short stories of John Buchan are known for their authentically rendered backgrounds, taut pacing, and atmosphere of...

Quentins

by Maeve Binchy

Is it possible to tell the story of a generation and a city through the history of a restaurant?

Ella Brady thinks so. She wants to film a documentary about Quentins that will capture the spirit of Dublin from...

The Most Beautiful Book in the World: 8 Novellas

by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt & Alison Anderson

One of Europe's most popular and best-loved authors, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt captivates the reader with his spirited, buoyant style and enchanting stories that move effortlessly from the everyday to the fantastical....

The New Yorker Stories

by Ann Beattie

When Ann Beattie began publishing short stories in The New Yorker in the mid-seventies, she emerged with a voice so original, and so uncannily precise and prescient in its assessment of her characters’ drift...

Palo Alto: Stories

by James Franco

A fiercely vivid collection of stories about troubled California teenagers and misfits--violent and harrowing, from the astonishingly talented actor and artist James Franco.

Palo Alto is the debut of a surprising...