Short Stories

Read the original stories which were adapted into the celebrated films STAND BY ME, APT PUPIL and THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, voted the world's most ...

An imprisoned man is certain that his supposed murder victim is very much alive . . . A female driver is pursued relentlessly by a menacing figure ...

A TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! Return to the realm of gods and legends, magic and romance. ...

Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson this autumn with a collection of her finest, darkest short stories, revealing the queen of Americ...

A luminous selection of short stories from the Booker prize-winning A. S. Byatt, celebrating over thirty years of writingWith an introduction by Da...

Collected here are Gogol's finest tales - from the demon-haunted 'St John's Eve' to the strange surrealism of 'The Nose', from the heart-rending tr...

Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of American Superna...

Buon Natale -- A Merry Christmas -- made all the more joyful with these literary treats filled with ancient churches, plates piled high with pasta,...

'In these wise, capacious, achingly beautiful stories, Omer Friedlander maps the hidden geography of the human heart like a young Chekhov' ANTHONY ...

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the aw...

A moving collection GRAZIA Danielle is a sharp new talent. SIRIN KALE ...

Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen has delighted readers for more than a century and inspired numerous adaptations. This anthology gathers 10...

A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom.Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE Dazzling GUARDIAN ...

Greg Egan is arguably Australia's greatest living science fiction writer. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has produced a steady str...

Moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart Ann PatchettMasterful, surprising, and satisfying Madeline MillerThe s...

A major anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki MurakamiThis is a celebration of the Japanese short story from its modern o...

'Razor-sharp Zadie Smith An electrifying, prizewinning short story collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen and My Year of Rest and ...

A brand new collection of chilling stories by master of horror Kim Newman, in which Jack the Ripper still stalks the streets, Frankenstein's monste...

Direct from the Diablo development team and horror's preeminent minds comes Tales from the Horadric Library, a short story collection exploring the...

'No one can plot or tell a story like she can' Daily ExpressA collection of atmospheric short stories from the international bestseller Val McDermi...