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Japanese Ghost Stories
In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the living, and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help. Here are all the phantoms and...- $ 350.00
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Widely regarded as a landmark in American literature, Slouching Towards Bethlehem marks Joan Didion’s debut in nonfiction—a collection that helped redefine modern reportage and personal essay when it appeared in 1968. Lauded as some of the finest prose produced in the United States, these...- $ 350.00
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Long Distance
A poignant, quietly arresting collection about the fragile threads that bind us across time, space, and memory. From Aysegül Savas, acclaimed author of The Anthropologists, comes Long Distance—a debut story collection that explores intimacy and alienation in the age of global mobility and digital...- $ 500.00
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Nocturnes
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes an inspired sequence of stories as affecting as it is beautiful. With the clarity and precision that have become his trademarks, Kazuo Ishiguro...- $ 360.00
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Men Without Women
A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear...- $ 450.00
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Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales
A chilling collection of interconnected stories in which ordinary lives slip quietly into the uncanny. Across a small unnamed city, strangers cross paths in ways that grow darker with every page. A young writer moves into a new apartment and learns her landlady may have...- $ 450.00
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Voices of the Fallen Heroes
A newly translated collection of short stories by Yukio Mishima, drawn from the final decade of his life in the 1960s. This selection offers a rare and intimate look into the mind of one of Japan’s most provocative and enduring literary figures. In the title...- $ 350.00
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Phillips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. This definitive collection reveals the development of...- $ 350.00
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No One Belongs Here More Than You
Miranda July’s debut short story collection is a masterclass in emotional vulnerability, quirky intimacy, and raw human longing. These stories are populated by lonely people who ache to connect—people who often live on the margins, yet whose emotional lives feel universally resonant. In these...- $ 350.00
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The Best Of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales Of Horror And The Macabre
This is the collection that true fans of horror fiction must have- sixteen of H.P. Lovecraft's most horrifying visions, including: The Call of Cthulu: The first story in the infamous Cthulhu mythos, a creature spawned in the stars brings a menace of unimaginable evil...- $ 400.00
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Where the Wild Ladies Are
A meddling aunt who frowns on hair removal. Two door-to-door saleswomen offering magical lanterns. A radiant lover who appears nightly to luxuriate in the bath. A silent visitor who cleans and babysits while a single mother works late. The women in Where the Wild...- $ 300.00
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Table for Two
Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the...- $ 550.00
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The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories
When the Americans Mr and Mrs Otis and their four children move into Canterville Chase, its previous occupant Lord Canterville warns them that the ghost of his ancestor still haunts the house. Their disbelief is soon shattered by the nightly sound of rattling chains...- $ 200.00
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My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs
This elegant clothbound edition features Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Lecture in Literature, delivered at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on December 7, 2017. Awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature for the emotional depth and precision of his fiction, Ishiguro reflects in this lecture on...- $ 350.00
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The Woman Dies
A collection of darkly playful, genre-defying stories from Aoko Matsuda. Blending surrealism, sharp humor, and incisive social critique, Matsuda explores themes like sexism, media violence, and the gendered aesthetics of technology with a style that is both daring and disarmingly funny. In these inventive...- $ 350.00
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Stag Dance
In this collection of one novel and three novellas, Torrey Peters’s keen eye for the rough edges of community and desire push the limits of trans writing. In Stag Dance, the titular novel, a group of restless lumberjacks working in an illegal winter logging...- $ 550.00
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If It Bleeds
Readers adore Stephen King’s novels, and his novellas are their own dark treat, briefer but just as impactful and enduring as his longer fiction. Many of his novellas have been made into iconic films, including “The Body” (Stand by Me) and “Rita Hayworth and...- $ 450.00
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
"What are you looking for?" That’s the question posed by Tokyo’s most mysterious librarian, Sayuri Komachi—a woman with a remarkable gift: she seems to know exactly what each visitor truly needs, and the perfect book to guide them there. A tired shop assistant dreaming...- $ 500.00
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Interpreter Of Maladies
A blackout forces a young Indian American couple to make confessions that unravel their tattered domestic peace. An Indian American girl recognizes her cultural identity during a Halloween celebration while the Pakastani civil war rages on television in the background. A latchkey kid with...- $ 400.00
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Invisible Cities
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor...- $ 450.00
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The Complete Stories
The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka’s stories, from the classic tales such as “The Metamorphosis,” “In the Penal Colony,” and “A...- $ 450.00
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Buried Deep and Other Stories
This stunning collection takes us from fairy tale to fantasy, myth to history, and mystery to science fiction as we travel through Naomi Novik’s most beloved stories: • A mushroom witch who learns that sometimes the worst thing in the Scholomance can be your...- $ 650.00
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
Bennie Salazar is a jaded music executive with a punk rock past. Sasha is his impulsive, enigmatic assistant, grappling with her own tangled history. In this inventive and deeply human novel, Jennifer Egan moves back and forth in time to trace the lives of...- $ 450.00
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Bad Thoughts
Bad Thoughts plunges you into the raw, wild, and haunting minds of women navigating the messy, often surreal realities of modern life in Los Angeles. From rebellious party girls and desperate reality TV hopefuls to estranged daughters and restless spirits, these unforgettable characters live...- $ 300.00
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I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
These eleven stories confront misogyny, violence, and the impossible economics of America with van den Berg’s trademark spiky humor and surreal eye. In “Lizards,” a man mutes his wife’s anxieties by giving her a LaCroix-like seltzer laced with sedatives. In the title story, a...- $ 350.00
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
These seven powerful stories reflect Tolstoy’s profound meditation on mortality and the human condition, each examining the inevitability of death from unique perspectives. In The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy delivers a heartrending exploration of a man confronting his approaching death and grappling with...- $ 350.00
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Helen Oyeyemi conjures a spellbinding collection of interconnected short stories where keys unlock far more than just doors—they open portals to hidden desires, secret histories and magical realms that blur the line between the real and the fantastical. From libraries guarded by ghosts to...- $ 450.00
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Miniature Novels I: the Inevitable Death of the Heart: 1
In this haunting collection of miniature novels, where love dances on the edge of despair, every heart is destined to break. Each tale captures a fleeting moment in time - snapshots of human vulnerability, raw emotions, and the slow unraveling of the soul. Miniature...- $ 380.00
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Fresh Complaint
Ranging from the bitingly reproductive antics of “Baster” to the dreamy, moving account of a young traveler’s search for enlightenment in “Air Mail”, this collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other...- $ 500.00
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Bliss Montage
What happens when fantasy rips through the fabric of the everyday? When the dream becomes the only way to see what’s real—and that awakening might be the end of us? In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma delivers eight uncanny stories that drift between the surreal...- $ 350.00
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Rejection
Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the touchiest problems of modern life. The seven connected stories seamlessly transition between the personal crises of a complex ensemble and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity, and the internet. In “The...- $ 350.00
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House of Day, House of Night
Writings From An Unbound Europe. Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, a region that has belonged at different times to Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia. When the narrator moves there, she discovers that everyone—and everything—has a story to tell. With the...- $ 350.00
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The News from Dublin
In “The Journey to Galway,” a mother learns that her son—a WWII fighter pilot—has been killed in action. She travels to Galway to deliver the devastating news to his wife and their three children, reshaping the course of all their lives. “Sleep,” first appearing...- $ 550.00
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Wednesday's Child
A new collection―about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life―by the award-winning, and inimitable, author of The Book of Goose. Yiyun Li traces the quiet fractures in ordinary lives—those moments when grief or longing makes the world tilt just a little. A...- $ 350.00
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Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
Heart Lamp marks the powerful English-language debut of Banu Mushtaq—acclaimed lawyer, activist, and one of India’s most vital literary voices. Spanning over thirty years of storytelling, this collection gathers twelve short stories originally written in Kannada between 1990 and 2023, offering a rare and...- $ 450.00
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Skeleton Crew
An eerie-looking child’s toy harbors an unimaginable evil. A supermarket is unexpectedly the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell. An idyllic lake conceals a bottomless terror. And a desert island is...- $ 450.00
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Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't
From the sharp, inventive mind of comedian and writer Josie Long comes a vibrant collection of short stories that capture the quiet chaos and unlikely beauty of everyday life. In these offbeat and emotionally resonant tales, three teenage girls are convinced they're witches, a...- $ 600.00
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Unlikely Stories, Mostly
A man finds a bald patch on the back of his head that looks curiously like a face, then discovers he's splitting in two. A bored student suggests digging a tunnel into the foundations of the art school. An elderly man is healed by...- $ 450.00
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X and Other Stories
A compelling collection of short fiction from one of Russia’s boldest and most visionary writers. These stories, written in the early 20th century, blend science fiction, satire and psychological tension to explore themes of individuality, conformity and the terrifying machinery of power. In the...- $ 350.00
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Dear Life
Fourteen stunning short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the great short story writers not just of our time but of any time” (The New York Times Book Review). In this brilliant collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is...- $ 400.00
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Runaway
Eight “sparkling [and] beautifully drawn” (Entertainment Weekly) stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro. The runaway of the title story is a young woman who is incapable of leaving her husband. In “Passion,” a country girl...- $ 400.00
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Antarctica
First published in 1999, Antarctica marked the stunning debut of Claire Keegan, now regarded as one of the finest short story writers working today. In this haunting and emotionally charged collection, Keegan delivers a series of precise, powerful stories that unflinchingly explore desire, betrayal,...- $ 400.00
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Bloodchild and Other Stories
A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes "Bloodchild," winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and "Speech Sounds," winner of the Hugo Award. Appearing in print for the first time,...- $ 450.00
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Gods of Want
In “Auntland,” a steady stream of aunts adjust to American life by sneaking surreptitious kisses from women at temple, buying tubs of vanilla ice cream to prepare for citizenship tests, and hatching plans to name their daughters “Dog.” In “The Chorus of Dead Cousins,”...- $ 400.00
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Best Short Stories of Jack London
Brilliant, poetic, swift with violence and action, his stories clearly illustrate the unique spirit of his unbridled genius. Critics admitted that the young firebrand "while frightfully primitive" was challenging Poe, Kipling and Melville as a one-in-a-million storyteller. The tales in this volume have been...- $ 350.00
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The Turn of the Screw and Others
To read Henry James is to step into a world meticulously imagined and utterly singular—a realm shaped by exquisite language and inhabited by richly drawn, intricately complex characters. Devious children, warring lovers, impulsive American girls, dense bachelors, enigmatic spinsters, and elegant Europeans fill these...- $ 300.00
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Tales of Twilight and the Unseen
A master of many literary genres, Arthur Conan Doyle excelled particularly in the short-story form, and was acclaimed in his day as much for his detective stories as for his thrilling tales of mystery and the supernatural. While the adventures of Sherlock Holmes have...- $ 400.00
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Dead Men Tell No Tales and Other Stories
In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola's short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of human existence and the interests of ordinary people. From the cruel irony of 'Captain Burle' to the Rabelaisian exuberance of 'Coqueville on the Spree',...- $ 330.00
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Tales of Unrest
These five stories were collected and published as Tales of Unrest in 1898, shortly before Heart of Darkness, the first of Conrad's major novels. Ranging from the faraway and unfamiliar, where the acquisitiveness of colonial adventure is damningly exposed, to an ostensibly ordinary London...- $ 200.00
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The Looking Glass and Other Stories
It is New Year's Eve, and Nellie, the pretty daughter of a landowning general, is sitting in her room looking in the mirror. Although she is tired and her eyes are half closed, she is spellbound as the reflection in the looking glass dissolves...- $ 330.00
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