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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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The Metamorphosis
From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial: A collection that brings together the stories he allowed to be published during his lifetime, including his best-known tale of a man who wakes up transformed...- $ 350.00
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Zero-Sum
A collection of darkly psychological tales from literary legend Joyce Carol Oates, where horror lurks not in monsters, but in human minds, desires, and the quietly crumbling boundaries of self. Each story exposes a different facet of dread—emotional, existential, and at times, physical. A...- $ 350.00
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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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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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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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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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Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
"One day you’ll look back and realise how hard it was, and just how well you did" Charlie Mackesy’s four unlikely friends are wandering through the wilds again. They’re not sure what they are looking for. They do know that life can be difficult,...- $ 500.00
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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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A Game of Chess and Other Stories
When it’s discovered that world chess champion Mirko Czentovic is aboard a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, a fellow passenger can’t resist challenging him to a game. Czentovic wins effortlessly—until a rematch is interrupted by a mysterious Austrian, Dr. B., who unexpectedly guides...- $ 250.00
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Rejection
Heartbreak, humiliation, and the hellscape of modern intimacy—this is rejection, in all its devastating, darkly funny glory. In this razor-sharp collection of interconnected stories, sex, shame, and self-delusion collide in painfully relatable ways. A well-meaning “feminist” realizes that thirty years of allyship haven’t made...- $ 500.00
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The Wood at Midwinter
From the award-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell comes a luminous, illustrated tale rooted in quiet magic and deep woods. Merowdis Scot, a curious and solitary nineteen-year-old, is most alive when wandering beneath trees. Gifted with the uncanny ability to...- $ 330.00
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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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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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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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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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The Whisperer in Darkness and Other Tales
When strange things are reported to be floating in rivers in rural Vermont after a flood, old myths about hill-dwelling monsters who abduct humans resurface in subsequent debates, much to the annoyance of local academic Albert N. Wilmarth. However, when he starts receiving letters...- $ 550.00
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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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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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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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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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The Turn of the Screw and Others
To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other—a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters, and charming Europeans populate these...- $ 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 Metamorphosis and Other Stories
When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks...- $ 250.00
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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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The Best American Short Stories 2023
“Without stories, we cannot live well,” shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope. A...- $ 350.00
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The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
The Complete Fairy Stories of Oscar Wilde gathers all nine of Oscar Wilde’s whimsical, poignant fabulations from The Happy Prince and Other Tales and The House of Pomegranates. Laced with Wilde’s legendary drollery, these fanciful tales touch on the themes of love, devotion, creativity,...- $ 300.00
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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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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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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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Fantastic Tales
Visionary and Everyday. Vampires, ghosts, and other uncanny beings haunt the pages of this rich anthology of 19th-century fantastic literature, selected and introduced by Italo Calvino—one of the 20th century’s great literary visionaries. Published posthumously, Fantastic Tales gathers a captivating range of eerie, enchanting,...- $ 400.00
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Speedboat
A brilliant, genre-defying novel that captures the disorienting speed and fragmentation of modern life. First published in 1976 and hailed as a cult classic, the book follows Jen Fain, a sharp, perceptive journalist living in New York City, as she navigates the shifting landscapes...- $ 300.00
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White Nights and Other Stories
Lonely and adrift, a young man—an inveterate dreamer—wanders the streets of St Petersburg during one of its endless summer nights. As he meanders through the hushed city, he encounters a young woman in distress, fending off the advances of an unwelcome stranger. He intervenes,...- $ 350.00
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Under the Eye of the Big Bird
In the far future, humanity is nearly extinct. Scattered across the planet in small tribes, people live under the watchful care of mysterious "Mothers." Some children are born from laboratories using the cells of dolphins and rabbits; others draw sustenance from light and water...- $ 350.00
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The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
In the shadows of English drawing rooms and the tangled depths of faerie woods, magic stirs—not the gentle kind of nursery tales, but the old, capricious kind that twists fate and answers to no one. The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories is...- $ 360.00
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Show Don't Tell
In her second story collection, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her novels. In these dazzling stories, she conjures up characters so real that they seem like old friends, laying bare the moments when their long...- $ 550.00
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Goodbye to Berlin
First published in 1934, Goodbye to Berlin has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am a Camera and Liza Minelli in Cabaret. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and...- $ 350.00
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The Girl Who Married a Lion
First published in 1989 as Children of Wax, The Girl Who Married a Lion includes all but one of the original stories and features six new folk tales, an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith and a letter from the one and only Mma Ramotswe....- $ 500.00
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