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Include books by the same authorThe Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
A.S. Byatt · 277 pages
A collection of fairy tales for adults. The title novella is on a middle-aged Englishwoman attending a writers' conference in Turkey. She picks up an antique bottle and as she is washing it a djinn appears, offering to grant her three wishes. She asks for a younger body, then requests he make love to her.
Arabian Nights and Days
Naguib Mahfouz, njyb mHfwZ · 227 pages
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
Jorge Luis Borges · 260 pages
Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays by the writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was translated into English, published soon after Borges won the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett. It includes, among other stories, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "The Garden of Forking Paths", and "The Library of Babel", three of Borges' most famous stories. Stories [Tlön, Uqbar, O
Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
Angela Carter · 480 pages
From early reflections on jazz and Japan, through vigorous refashionings of vampires and werewolves, to stunning snapshots of real-life outcasts and the glorious but tainted world of "the rich and famous," this complete collection of Angela Carter's short stories gathers together four published books - Fireworks, The Bloody Chamber, Black Venus, American Ghosts and Old World Wonders - with her ear
Worlds' End
Neil Gaiman · 168 pages
Reminiscent of the legendary Canterbury Tales, THE SANDMAN: WORLDS' END is a wonderful potpourri of engrossing tales and masterly storytelling. Improbably caught in a June blizzard, two wayward compatriots stumble upon a mysterious inn and learn that they are in the middle of a "reality storm." Now surrounded by a menagerie of people and creatures from different times and realities, the two strand
Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories
Elizabeth Hand · 282 pages
The Unfinished World: And Other Stories
Amber Sparks · 233 pages
"Sparks's stories--populated with sculptors, librarians, astronauts, and warriors--form a veritable cabinet of curiosities. Mythical, bizarre, and ... moving, [the book] ... illuminates the search for a brief encounter with the extraordinary"--Amazon.com.
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
Lesley Nneka Arimah · 235 pages
"A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. In "Who Will Greet You at Home," a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In "Wild," a disastrous night out shifts a teenager
Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game
Stefan Zweig · 133 pages
Pictor's Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies
Hermann Hesse · 213 pages
City of Saints and Madmen
Jeff VanderMeer · 456 pages
Bailey's Cafe
Gloria Naylor · 229 pages
"Welcome to Bailey's Cafe, the most mythically real eating place you've ever walked into. Presided over by Bailey himself and his helpmate, Nadine, it is a magnet that draws a wide variety of society's detritus, each with her own story to tell." "There is Sadie, whose addiction to alcohol is second only to her mania for cleanliness; and the oddly maternal Eve, whose bordello accepts only fresh flo
Winter's Tales
Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen · 265 pages
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.
White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
Kelly Link · 272 pages
The Fictions Of Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz · 304 pages
Leaf Storm and Other Stories
Gabriel García Márquez · 146 pages
In the Forest of Forgetting
Theodora Goss · 284 pages
The Melancholy of Anatomy
Shelley Jackson · 179 pages
Tokyo Cancelled
Rana Dasgupta · 383 pages
Thirteen passengers are stranded at an airport. Tokyo, their destination, is covered in snow and all flights are cancelled. To pass the night they form a huddle by the silent baggage carousels and tell one another stories. Thus begins Rana Dasgupta's Canterbury Tales for our times. In the spirit of Borges and Calvino, Dasgupta's writing combines an energetically modern landscape with a timeless, b
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
Robert Louis Stevenson · 303 pages
Dr. Jekyll invented a drug that would change him into the ominous Mr. Hyde. His evil nature, however, became the stronger part of him and to his horror, he no longer needed the formula to transform his appearance.
A Place Where the Sea Remembers
Sandra Benitez · 163 pages