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The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag

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Four Past Midnight

Stephen King · 768 pages

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Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock

Neil Gaiman · 528 pages

To celebrate the arrival of Peter Capaldi on to our screens as the newly regenerated Doctor, this collection of Doctor Who short stories, each written by a different author, now includes an extra, brand-new twelfth adventure as part of the 12 Doctors, 12 Stories paperback anthology. Offering the perfect addition to the top-selling series, the twelfth story, "Lights Out," has been penned by self-pr

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Tales of Space and Time

H.G. Wells · 196 pages

Tales of Space and Time collects together two novellas and three short stories by the great science fiction writer H. G. Wells. First published in 1899, this absorbing and stimulating read contains:The Crystal Egg (short story)The Star (short story)A Story of the Stone Age (novella)A Story of the Days To Come" (novella)The Man Who Could Work Miracles (short story)

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The Shadow Out of Time

H.P. Lovecraft · 260 pages

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We Can Remember It for You Wholesale

Philip K. Dick · 400 pages

A collection of Philip K. Dick's earliest works features "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale," in which Doug Quail, unable to afford a trip to Mars, pays a visit to Rekal to have memories implanted.

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Three Moments of an Explosion

China Mieville · 406 pages

A provocative new collection of short stories by the New York Times best-selling and Hugo Award-winning author of Kraken explores a range of styles and forms to explore an alternate universe where nature provocatively renders the human race an endangered species.

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The Twilight Zone: The Original Stories

Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg · 108 pages

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The New Weird

Alistair Rennie · 367 pages

This avant-garde anthology that presents and defines the New Weird—a hip, stylistic fiction that evokes the gritty exuberance of pulp novels and dime-store comic books—creates a new literature that is entirely unprecedented and utterly compelling. Assembling an array of talent, this collection includes contributions from visionaries Michael Moorcock and China Mieville, modern icon Clive Barker, an

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The Christmas Books

Charles Dickens · 237 pages

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The Stories of Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury · 884 pages

The Night Homecoming Uncle Einar The Traveler The Lake The Coffin The Crowd The Scythe There Was an Old Woman There Will Come Soft Rains Mars is Heaven The Silent Towns The Earth Men The Off Season The Million-Year Picnic The Fox and the Forest Kaleidoscope The Rocket Man Marionettes, Inc. No Particular Night or Morning The City

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Pretty Monsters: Stories

Kelly Link · 408 pages

Kelly Link has lit up adult literary publishing—and Viking is honored to publish her first YA story collection. Through the lens of Link’s vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look. From the multiple award-winning “The Faery Handbag,” in which a teenager’s grandmother carries an entire village (or is it a man-eating dog?) in her handbag, to the near-future

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The Country Doctor

Franz Kafka · 96 pages

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The Very First Damned Thing

Jodi Taylor · 95 pages

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

William L. Hedges · 358 pages

Originally entitled, "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.", this collection of essays, sketches, and tales established Washington's reputation as America's foremost professional author. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" are classics of American fiction and display Irving's ability to depict American landscapes and culture. This volume also contains a number of gently ironic

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The Jaunt

Stephen King · 25 pages

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The Kingdoms

Natasha Pulley · 448 pages

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The Hemingway Hoax: A Short Comic Novel of Existential Terror

Joe Haldeman · 155 pages

The Hemingway Hoax is a Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella that weaves an intricate plot of a fake Hemingway manuscript with time travel, multiple universes, and the potential destruction of the omniverse itself.

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The Bible Repairman and Other Stories

Tim Powers · 170 pages

A collection of short stories that delves into the mysteries of the soul. A time-traveling angel manifests in a pizza parlor; the executor of an old friend's will is caught up in a ritual of Kabbalah and cats.

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Seven Stones to Stand or Fall

Diana Gabaldon · 544 pages

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House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories

Yasunari Kawabata · 160 pages

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Doctor Who: Human Nature

Paul Cornell · 255 pages

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The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

Ted Chiang · 83 pages

This curious time-travel novella is a gracefully told lesson about accepting fate-or, as better suits this medieval Arabian setting, the will of Allah. A Baghdad merchant discovers an alchemical device that can send a traveler back in time 20 years. Despite the alchemist's warning that "what is made cannot be unmade," and three illustrative tales about others' attempts to alter the past, the merch

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