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In 1998 Peter F. Hamilton, the master of space opera and top ten bestselling author, published his first collection of short stories in A Second Chance at Eden. Thirteen years later he returns to short fiction with a new collection. This includes 'Manhattan in Reverse,' an original story featuring H...

Even before the enormous success of "A Game of Thrones, "George R. R. Martin had secured his reputation as one of the most exciting storytellers of our time. The second of two thrilling collections, "Dreamsongs: Volume II "continues the story of his amazing journey from a young writer to a #1 "New Y...

Enter a Galaxy Full Of Wonder Take a voyage through a universe populated with eerie and complex starships and satellites, cunningly crafted to resemble creatures of fact and legend. Read about those who stare at the heavens and those who travel among the stars. Did you ever wonder why the chicken cr...

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine "Black Mask" published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in "Black Mask." The urban crime ...

On the heels of their popular anthologies, Silence of the Loons and Resort to Murder, the Minnesota Crime Wave has gathered a new collection of stories about "Murder, Mayhem and Malice from the Land of Minnesota Nice." Authors include Lori Lake, Carl Brookins, Judith Borger, Pat Dennis, William Kent...

Table of ContentsForeword About the author Black bag moon Get on with it Whitefella dreaming 1 'I'm back' Samurai swords and tongue lashings Fried brains and the Polish corpse Pieces of eight from Graham, Joseph, Herman, Ian and Errol Hot diplomats and black-booted gazelles Whoople the cad...

Anita Endrezze has deep memories. Her father was a Yaqui Indian. Her mother traced her heritage to Slovenia, Germany, Romania, and Italy. And her stories seem to bubble up from this ancestral cauldron. Butterfly Moon is a collection of short stories based on folk tales from around the world. But its...

Over the past 100 years the technology of war has advanced enormously in destructive power. So what will future wars be like? And what will cause them: religion, politics, resources, refugees, or advanced weaponry itself? Watson and Whates present a collection of gripping SF stories which explores a...

When Jacob Deveraux gets hired at the reputable bank, he knows he isn't right for the job: he's been there before and he knows exactly what to expect. His plans to make the best of it soon fall foul when he is overheard making a rude remark about his manager in the cafeteria. Loaded with a sense of ...

It's too late! The living dead have already taken over the world. Your brains have been devoured. Nothing is left but spasms of ravenous need - an obscene hunger for even more zombie fiction. Forget the metaphors and the mildly scary. You want shock, you want gruel, you want disturbing, gut-wrenchin...

Decades, centuries, and even thousands of years in the future: the horrors inspired by Lovecraft do not know the limits of time ...or space. Features Journey through this anthology of science fiction stories and poems inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Listen to the stars that whisper and driv...

A FARMER and his wife fall on hard times. They haven't lost everything the way others have, but they have lost enough. Their hope for a better future comes under threat when they discover an intruder on their land. A WOMAN from a small town marries an outsider. Her love for him battles with her susp...

Whatever happened to Oskar and Eli? And what became of the beleaguered families in Handling the Undead? Find out in Let the Old Dreams Die. In other tales from this collection, a woman finds a dead body and decides to keep it for herself, a customs officer has a mysterious gift which enables him to ...

One of the remarkable qualities of Bolano's short stories is that they seem to tell what Bolano called 'the secret story', 'the one we'll never know'. The Return contains thirteen unforgettable tales bent on returning to haunt you, most of them appearing in English for the first time here. Wide-rang...

Whatever happened to Oskar and Eli? And what became of the beleaguered families in Handling the Undead? Find out in Let the Old Dreams Die. In other tales from this collection, a woman finds a dead body and decides to keep it for herself, a customs officer has a mysterious gift which enables him to ...

This is Don DeLillo's first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011; in it he represents the wide range of human experience in contemporary America and forces us to confront the uncomfortable shadows lurking in the background. His characters are plagued by their own deep, often un...

his volume forms part of a continuing initiative by Wayne R. Kime to make available the writings of Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862), an Irish-American literary man who during his lifetime won reputation as one of the most talented young authors in the United States, but who has been all but forgotten...

John Harvey has been described as the master of British crime fiction: From the mean streets of London to the jazz clubs and clip joints of Soho, this is a world of broken families, revenge killings, and prostitution; drugs, guns, and corruption; a world of overstretched police forces and underpaid ...

"Justine Jones faces her ultimate enemy: herself." Book Three in "The Disillusionist Trilogy" In an attempt to put her unhappy past behind her, Justine Jones throws herself into nursing school and planning her wedding to Otto Sanchez, the man of her dreams. But something is off. Random details aren'...

The spirits of the dead have walked among our legends, myths, and stories since before recorded history. Ghostly visitations, hauntings, unquiet souls seeking the living, vengeful wraiths, the possibility of life beyond the grave that can somehow reach out and touch us are some of literature's most ...

In the "Palace of Repose", Holly Phillips' debut collection of short stories - most of which had never been published - accomplished the improbable. It garnered its unknown Canadian author accolades and numerous honors, including the 2006 Sunburst Award and nominations for the World Fantasy and Craw...

Introducing stories of circuses traditional and bizarre, futuristic and steeped in tradition, joyful and heart-breaking! And among the actors you will find old friends, be they sad clowns or free-spirited gymnasts, as well as new ones - mammoths, mechanical piano men, and things best not described a...

"My dog Tapeworm Johnson needed legitimate veterinary attention. It had been two years since she received annual shots. I read somewhere that an older dog can overdose on all these vaccinations, and I have found--I share this information with every dog owner I meet--that if you keep your pet away fr...

These frank, unsparing, and varied stories by women in their twenties and thirties reveal the evolution of women's consciousness in Russia through two decades of violent social upheaval--including the dramatic monologue of a teenage girl who grew up in an orphanage; an escape to the Altai Mountains ...

This anthology features speculative fiction short stories with art, music, literature and culture themes. It is the latest volume of the long-running Tesseracts series and features stories for a new generation of readers. This anthology joins a 26-year legacy which features the writing and editing o...

A collection of original horror and dark fantasy from the world's best writers, including Stephen King and John Ajvide LindqvistMany of us grew up on "The Pan Book of Horror Stories "and its later incarnations, "Dark Voices "and "Dark Terrors "(The Gollancz Book of Horror), which won the World Fanta...

"New York Times" bestselling author Tom Perrotta's first book is "more powerful than any coming-of-age novel" --"The Washington Post" "Bad Haircut" explores the themes that have fascinated Perrotta throughout his career: suburban rituals and mores; sports and religion; the cheerful cheesiness of Ame...

Even among the superhuman warriors of the Adeptus Astartes, there are those who turn their backs on their brothers. An all-new collection of short stories from the 41st Millennium.

"Seriously clever."--Russell SmithPsychologists are people we love to hate. At best, they're compassionate detectives of the human soul, healers and diagnosticians, assessing the internal machinations that structure our lives and behavior. At worst, however, they're smug, hyper-educated, bombastic, ...

SKULLCRUSHER is a two-volume collection of classic weird fiction comprising the very best stories by legendary pulp author Robert E Howard. These stories feature all of Howard's most famous creations - Conan, King Kull, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn - alongside others such as Cormac Mac Art, James All...

"Safe as Houses," the debut story collection of Marie-Helene Bertino, proves that not all homes are shelters. The titular story revolves around an aging English professor who, mourning the loss of his wife, robs other people's homes of their sentimental knick-knacks. In "Free Ham," a young dropout w...

The world of "Tell Everyone I Said Hi" is geographically small but far from provincial in its portrayal of emotionally complicated lives. With all the heartbreaking earnestness of a Wilco song, these eighteen stories by Chad Simpson roam the small-town playgrounds, blue-collar neighborhoods, and rur...

Sherman Alexie's stature as a writer of stories, poems, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed stories from the last two decades, from "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" to his most recent PEN/Faulkner award-winning "War...

Brand-new stories from: Daniel Woodrell, Matthew Eck, Catherine Browder, Nancy Pickard, John Lutz, J. Malcolm Garcia, Kevin Prufer, Linda Rodriguez, Nadia Pflaum, Phong Nguyen, Andres Rodriguez, and others.Steve Paul has been a writer and editor at the "The Kansas City Star" since 1975. Currently th...

In our bureaucratized culture, we re inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally forwarded email, traffic updates, ad infinitum. David Shields and Matthew Vollmer, both writers and professors, have gathered ...

Yusuf Idris was undoubtedly one of Egypt's most talented and versatile writers in the second half of the twentieth century. The first two novellas in this volume, Madam Vienna and The Secret of His Power, come from the peak period in his career, the late 1950s and early 1960s, while New York80 belon...

For more than fifty years, Wendell Berry has been telling us stories about Port William, a mythical town on the banks of the Kentucky River, populated over the years by a cast of unforgettable characters living in a single place over a long time. In this new collection, the author's first piece of n...