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Hide books by the same authorStrange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Pu Songling · 608 pages
The strange tales of Pu Songling are exquisite minatures regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems.
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Neil Gaiman · 400 pages
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Stranger Things Happen
Kelly Link · 266 pages
This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve the case of the tap-dancing bank robbers. A librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects a
Vacations from Hell
Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, Claudia Gray, Maureen Johnson, Sarah Mlynowski
Life's a beach . . . and then you're undead? In this must-have collection, five of today's hottest writers—**Libba Bray** (*A Great and Terrible Beauty*), **Cassandra Clare** (*City of Bones*), **Claudia Gray** (*Evernight*), **Maureen Johnson** (*13 Little Blue Envelopes*), and **Sarah Mlynowski** (*Bras & Broomsticks*)—tell supernatural tales of vacations gone awry. Lost luggage is only mild
Seven Stones to Stand or Fall
Diana Gabaldon · 544 pages
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Stephen King · 698 pages
From the Flap: A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. Flies settle and die on an old pair of sneakers in New York, and the Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile the legend of Castle Rock returns . . . and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? First there was Night Shift (1978), then Skeleton Crew (1985), and now Stephen King is back wi
Looking for Jake
China Mieville · 303 pages
What William Gibson did for science fiction, China Mieville has done for fantasy, shattering old paradigms with fiercely imaginative works of startling, often shocking, intensity. Now from this brilliant young writer comes a groundbreaking collection of stories, many of them previously unavailable in the United States, and including four never-before-published tales--one set in Mieville's signatur
Carniepunk
Rachel Caine, Rob Thurman, Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne, Mark Henry, Jaye Wells, Allison Pang, Hillary Jacques, Jennifer Estep, Kelly Meding, Nicole Peeler, Jackie Kessler, Kelly Gay, Seanan McGuire · 440 pages
A collection of urban fantasy stories that take place at carnivals. From vampires and creepy clowns to mermaids, Druids, and wisecracking Irish wolfhounds, you'll find out that carnivals aren't the healthiest types of places to hang out at....
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
Robert A. Heinlein · 214 pages
SciFi - The novella The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1942). Short stories are: " -- And He Built a Crooked House"; "They --"; "Our Fair City"; "The Man Who Traveled in Elephants"; and, "-- All You Zombies --".
Graven Images
Paul Fleischman · 85 pages
A collection of three stories about a child who reads the lips of those who whisper secrets into a statue's ear; a daydreaming shoemaker's apprentice who must find ways to make the girl he loves notice him; and a stone carver who creates a statue of a ghost.
Dead of Night
J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts, Mary Blayney, Ruth Ryan Langan, Mary Kay McComas · 491 pages
Nora Roberts, writing as J.D. Robb, puts futuristic lieutenant Eve Dallas in a supernatural showdown with a most seductive criminal: a vampire. An ancient coin whisks an American woman and a modern-day earl into the past-and into each other's arms-in a stirring tale from Mary Blayney. When a city girl visits a Scottish castle in Ruth Ryan Langan's story, she is thrust into a timeless romance
A Fantasy Medley 2
Tanya Huff, Amanda Downum, Jasper Kent, Seanan McGuire · 160 pages
Four original stories from some of fantasy's most exciting authors, featuring assassins, faerie, hauntings, and more.
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
Red Spikes
Margo Lanagan · 176 pages
Margo Lanagan's electrifying stories take place in worlds not quite our own, and yet each one illuminates what it is to be human. They are stories of yearning for more, and learning to live with what you have. Stories that show the imprint love leaves on us all.If you think you don't like short fiction, that a story can't have the depth or impact of a novel, then you haven't read Margo Lanagan. A
Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy
Ellen Datlow · 539 pages
An anthology of gritty supernatural tales of magic and mischief by leading genre authors includes an original "Harry Dresden" by Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs' story about a vampire who must save the Fae who lifted his curse, and Holly Black's short pieceabout a rock star who discovers a young woman's unnatural appetites.
House of Mystery, Volume 2: Love Stories for Dead People
Matthew Sturges, Bill Willingham, Bernie Wrightson, Kyle Baker
Hex Appeal
Jim Butcher, Carrie Vaughn, Ilona Andrews, Erica Hayes, Rachel Caine, Carole Nelson Douglas, Simon R. Green, Lori Handeland · 368 pages
An anthology of stories edited by P N Elrod. Fall under the intoxicating spell of their hex appeal… In the magical world that lies hidden beneath our own, witches and conjurers play deadly games. They know just the right spell to kill a man with one kiss -- or raise him back again. And they’re not afraid to exact sweet revenge on those who dare to cross them. But what if you’re the unlucky soul
Shadowed Souls
Jim Butcher, Kerrie L. Hughes · 338 pages
"In this dark and gritty collection--featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman--nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil ... Unfortunately, that's exactly what makes it so easy to cross the line. In #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher's Cold Case, Molly Carpenter--Harry Dresden's apprentice-turned-Winter
The Urban Fantasy Anthology
Emma Bull, Charles de Lint, Neil Gaiman, Jeffrey Ford, Kelley Armstrong, Norman Partridge, Carrie Vaughn, Patricia Briggs, Bruce McAllister, Suzy McKee Charnas, Francesca Lia Block, Thomas M. Disch, Susan Palwick, Holly Black, Steven R. Boyett, Tim Powers, Al Sarrantonio
Introduction by Peter S. Beagle Mythic Fiction Introduction: A Personal Journey into Mythic Fiction by Charles de Lint "A Bird That Whistles" by Emma Bull "Make a Joyful Noise" by Charles de Lint "The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories" by Neil Gaiman "On the Road to New Egypt" by Jeffrey Ford "Julie's Unicorn" by Peter S. Beagle Paranormal Romance Introduction: A Funny Thing Hap
The End of the Story
Clark Ashton Smith · 284 pages
None strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith. "In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer." H. P. Lovecraft Clark Ashton Smith, considered one of the greatest contributors to seminal pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, helped define and shape "weird fiction" in the early twentieth century, alongside contempo
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