Short Stories

Seventeen stories by seventeen brilliant writers, inspired by seventeen paintings. That was the formula for Lawrence Block''s two ground-breaking a...

Above a disused bar, in a dilapidated Parisian hotel that houses an assortment of indigent, marginalized lost souls, one of the inhabitants, a myst...

For the Sake of the Game is the latest volume in the award-winning series from New York Times bestselling editors Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klin...

Even before Lawrence Block could rest on his laurels from In Sunlight or In Shadow, a question arose. What would he do for an encore? Any number o...

This stunning anthology of classic colonial suspense fiction plunges deep into the native soil from which American horror literature first sprang. ...

Readers are well aware that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein: few know how many other tales of terror she created. In addition to Uncle Tom''s Cabin...

This stunning anthology of classic colonial suspense fiction plunges deep into the native soil from which American horror literature first sprang. ...

Today, the figure of Sherlock Holmes towers over detective fiction like a colossus-but it was not always so. Edgar Allan Poe''s French detective Du...

American crime writing was reborn in the 1920s. After years of dominance by British authors, new American writers-with fresh ideas about the detect...

Now in its nineteenth year the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa''s leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African w...

Love Bites is a collection of thirteen stories set in Europe and North America. They trace foreigners, drifters and eccentrics linked by their need...

The eight stories here show Wells in various moods and foreshadow his celebrity. These are uncanny tales, resonating strangely, despite arising fro...

This collection presents finest of Rory Kilalea''s work: the plays ''Colours'' and ''The Diary of David and Ruth'', as well as three outstanding sh...

Edgar Allan Poe did not invent the tale of terror. There were American, English, and Continental writers who preceded Poe and influenced his work. ...

In this follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, expert Sherlockians Laurie King and Les Klinger put forth the question: What ...