Growing Things and Other Stories

• Author : Paul Tremblay
• Publisher : Titan Books
• Release : 02 July 2019

A chilling short story collection by the Bram Stoker Award-winner author, including stories set in the world of A Head Full of Ghosts and Disappearance at Devil’s Rock. A thrilling new collection from the award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World bringing his short stories to the UK for the first time. Unearth nineteen tales of suspense and literary horror, including a new story from the world of A

• Author : Sherwood Anderson
• Publisher : Courier Corporation
• Release : 06 July 2022

Published two years after the innovative, influential 1919 masterpiece Winesburg, Ohio, this collection of short stories solidified the author's reputation as a major American writer. These stories explore intriguing psychological depths, redolent with personal epiphanies, erotic undercurrents, and sudden eruptions of passion among seemingly repressed, inarticulate Midwesterners.

• Author : Susan Visvanathan
• Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
• Release : 18 October 2012

A collection of fourteen stories, Nelycinda & other stories, presents a woman's perspective of society thriving on trade and business. Lyrical and poignant, these stories take us to a world infested with the aroma of spices. The world was always opaque and something about the nearness of the sea made it more so. Susa began her day with the smallness of things, sea sand, which appeared as dull as the day, and the colours in the translucent shells, each catching the

• Author : Sherwood Anderson
• Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
• Release : 25 September 2019

Reproduction of the original: Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories by Sherwood Anderson

• Author : Lucius Shepard
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 30 December 2010

This collection by Lucius Shepard, one of the most exciting new writers to emerge in the 1980s, includes the eponymous story ¿Barnacle Bill the Spacer¿, about an attempted mutiny on a space station, which won the Hugo Award, as well as ¿Sports in America¿, about a man who finds out just how far he is willing to go when he is hired by a local crime boss to kill a man. In ¿All the Perfumes of Araby¿ a small-time smuggler

• Author : Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• Publisher : University of Missouri Press
• Release : 06 July 1997

A collection of stories touches on such topics as love, war, race relations, women's rights, and the trials of marriage

• Author : John Gneisenau Neihardt
• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• Release : 01 January 1991

Gathers nine tales, written in the early part of the century, about the Omaha Indians in the period before contact with whites

• Author : Tessa Hadley
• Publisher : Random House
• Release : 26 January 2017

The dazzling collection of stories from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Late in the Day. **WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE** Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby. A housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past. A young girl accepts a lift in a car with a group of strangers. An old friend brings bad news to a dinner party. In these gripping and unsettling stories, the ordinary is

• Author : Lucia Bartlett
• Publisher : Archway Publishing
• Release : 01 April 2021

In her new collection of stories, author Lucia Bartlett presents three tales that explore unexpected and strange departures from normal life. The Vampire Squid continues a tale of the residents of Foster Lake. Fall, 2019 has families going about their business in the small northern Maine town when odd sightings are reported at the woman’s prison. Then in March 2020, days before Covid lock-down, The Lane School takes a field trip to a new underground military facility that leaves teachers & students

• Author : Robert Charles Wilson
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 29 March 2013

In his first story collection, Robert Charles Wilson, one of the most distinguished SF authors of his generation, weaves a tapestry of tales set in and around the city of Toronto - a haunted, numinous Toronto of past, present and future, buzzing with strangeness. In "The Fields of Abraham", one of three stories written especially for this collection, an impoverished immigrant boy is trained in strange disciplines by a bookseller who is more than he seems. In "The Perseids", winner

• Author : Flash-Fiction South West
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release : 06 July 2022

• Author : Jon Hassler
• Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
• Release : 01 October 2009

"Jon Hassler is a writer good enough to restore your faith in fiction...His subjects are life, love, and death...and he writes with wisdom and grace." --The New York Times

• Author : Carroll Dale Short
• Publisher : NewSouth Books
• Release : 01 June 2005

In the eighteen stories in this retrospective of his best short fiction, Dale Short shows why he is one of the best prose stylists of his generation and why he deserves a break-out success. Short's writing has been hailed by Wally Lamb as “simultaneously mythical and modern; a wild ride,” and Dennis Covington has called him “wise and compassionate, a major Southern writer.” He writes here from many perspectives—male, female, first person, third person, grieving widow, newly divorced dad,

• Author : Sholom Aleichem
• Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
• Release : 17 November 2015

One of the most beloved and prolific writers of Yiddish literature, Sholom Aleichem (1859–1916) produced a wealth of wonderful stories that combine traditional Jewish oral humor with Western literary tradition. For years a living legend, he wrote enduring gems of fiction, eleven of which are included in this entertaining collection. The master storyteller brilliantly recaptures the joy and tribulations of Jewish life in such tales as "Geese," "At the Doctor's," "Three Widows," "The Passover Eve Vagabonds," "On America," "Someone to Envy," "

• Author : Mandla Langa
• Publisher : New Africa Books
• Release : 06 July 1996