Short Stories

Worlding America explores the circulation of short narratives in the early Americas through a combination of neglected primary materials and schola...

Harold Frederic was for a long time known primarily as a writer of New York regional fiction and historical novels. His most outstanding and influe...

The No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's timeless coming-of-age novella, The Body - set in Castle Rock and originally published in his 1982 shor...

The No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's novella The Sun Dog, published in his award-winning 1990 story collection Four Past Midnight, is now a...

A tree falls in the forest and I am/ there to make sure no one hears it./Beloved: Its not that I am/unwilling to be seized by sound,/ everyday I am...

Selected by #1 bestselling author Lee Child: the twenty finest short stories of 2021. There is no finer form for a crime than the short story. WIt...

The Stoker Award-winning chilling anthology of 18 short stories in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today''s best horror writer...

**THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR**Murder. Assassination. Revenge. Discover the first short story collection from the King of Scandi Crim...

In these stories of the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Melville's darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a world ...

Curl up with a collection of romantic short stories taking you from nineteenth-century Vienna, over the wild moors of Northumberland to the snowy s...

In France, Mattie feels twenty again. In Poland, Magda revisits her impoverished family. In Uzbekistan, Diana lets a fellow tourist kiss her. In Ge...

A group of teenage boys take turns assessing each others changing bodies before a Friday night disco A grieving woman strikes up an unlikely fri...

The No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's memorable story Apt Pupil - published in his 1982 story collection Different Seasons and made into a mo...

This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the fir...

In this collection, one of Irelands best-known political figures brings us new and selected stories of politics, of family, of love and of friendsh...

We Seldom Talk About the Past is John MacKennas first selected collection of short stories, from a career spanning over three decades. The stories ...

These stories conjure a vanished Russia, where Orthodox Christianity coexists with the shapeshifters and house spirits of ancient folk belief. Cele...

'Taut, beautiful and savage' GuardianA man travels to his son's school to deal with the fallout of a violent attack and to make sure his son will n...

Welcome, dear visitor, to a proud and storied nation. When you put down this guidebook, look around you. A nation isnt land. A nation is people. E...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE'One of the best collections you'll read this year' Sunday Times'Wild, witty stories . . . Exhilarat...