Short Stories
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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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The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: Deluxe Edition
Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels. From the tale of commitment, loneliness and hope in Of Mice and Men, to the tough yet charming portrait of people on...- $ 650.00
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Monday or Tuesday
Originally hand-printed at her Hogarth Press in Richmond, Monday or Tuesday is the only collection of short stories that Virginia Woolf published during her lifetime, providing a fascinating insight into the early stages of development of themes that would blossom in her later masterpieces.From...- $ 450.00
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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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After-Supper Ghost Stories
Jerome blends humor and horror in a delightfully strange collection of tales told on Christmas Eve. As a family and their guests gather around the fire after dinner, they begin sharing ghost stories—some eerie, some absurd, all increasingly bizarre. What begins as a lighthearted...- $ 450.00
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
From his Baker Street apartment, Sherlock Holmes wields his powers of deduction in pursuit of justice and truth, venturing out into foggy Victorian London accompanied by his faithful sidekick Dr. Watson. This classic collection of Holmes tales includes many of the detective's most-loved exploits....- $ 400.00
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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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The October Country
The October Country is Ray Bradbury’s own netherworld of the soul, inhabited by the horrors and demons that lurk within all of us. This classic collection features: The Emissary: The faithful dog was the sick boy’s only connection with the world outside—and beyond...The Small...- $ 350.00
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Beautiful Days
Time twists. Reality slips. And nothing—especially the people closest to us—stays quite the same. In this haunting, dreamlike collection, a couple trapped in a house deep in the woods begins aging at a terrifying pace while their toddler remains untouched. A weary office worker...- $ 580.00
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Going to Meet the Man
In this modern classic, "there's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories detail the...- $ 380.00
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Normal Rules Don't Apply
Nothing is quite as it seems in this collection of eleven dazzling stories. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a man who bets on a horse that may—or...- $ 400.00
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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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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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A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories 1968-1994
Spanning nearly three decades of work, A Wilderness Station gathers twenty-eight masterful stories by Alice Munro, one of the most revered voices in modern fiction. From rural farmsteads to city streets across Canada, Munro captures ordinary lives at the turning point—moments when love falters,...- $ 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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The Dunwich Horror
A classic tale of terror and grotesquerie by the original master of horror. H. P. Lovecraft proclaimed his Dunwich Horror "so fiendish" that his editor at Weird Tales "may not dare to print it." The editor, fortunately, knew a good thing when he saw...- $ 250.00
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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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The Isle of Youth
Laura van den Berg’s gorgeous new book, The Isle of Youth , explores the lives of women mired in secrecy and deception. From a newlywed caught in an inscrutable marriage, to private eyes working a baffling case in South Florida, to a teenager who...- $ 450.00
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Witness
What does it mean to really see the world around you―to bear witness? And what does it cost us, both to see and not to see? A poignant and evocative collection of short stories that delves into the complexities of human relationships, identity and...- $ 500.00
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She and Her Cat
Lying alone on the edge of the sidewalk in an abandoned cardboard box, a nameless narrator contemplates the indifferent world around him. With his mother long gone, his only company is the sound of the nearby train. Just as he fears that the end...- $ 500.00
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Other Minds and Other Stories
From the award-winning author of A Questionable Shape and White Dialogues , a brilliant, anxious, and hilarious new collection. Cerebral and eerie, captivating and profound, these twelve stories expertly guide us through the paranoia and obsession of everyday horrors, not least the horrors of...- $ 450.00
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager’s practical joke. A college student visiting her brassy, unconventional aunt stumbles on an astonishing secret and its meaning in her own life. An incorrigible philanderer responds with unexpected grace to his...- $ 400.00
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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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Sabrina & Corina
Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Latina characters of indigenous ancestry and the land they inhabit in the American West. Against the remarkable backdrop of Denver, Colorado—a place that is as fierce as it is exquisite—these women navigate the land the...- $ 400.00
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Seven Empty Houses
The seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back inside: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a...- $ 350.00
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People from Bloomington
An eerie, alienating, yet comic and profoundly sympathetic short story collection about Americans in America by one of Indonesia’s most prominent writers, now in an English translation for its fortieth anniversary, with a foreword by Intan Paramaditha. In these seven stories of People from...- $ 400.00
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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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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories.Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for...- $ 420.00
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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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Some Rain Must Fall And Other Stories
Michel Faber’s short stories reveal an extraordinarily vivid imagination, a deep love of language and an adventurous versatility. Playful, yet profoundly moving, wickedly satirical yet sincerely humane, these tales never fail to strike unexpected chords. ‘Some Rain Must Fall’ juxtaposes the tragic circumstances of...- $ 400.00
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I'm a Fool to Want You
These dazzling stories from the internationally acclaimed author of Bad Girls erase the fine line between fantasy and reality, and establish her as an impressive literary voice. In the 1990s, a woman makes a living as a rental girlfriend for gay men. In a...- $ 380.00
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Yiyun Li offers a deeply moving debut collection that spans continents and generations, exploring the quiet complexities of Chinese and Chinese American lives. From Beijing to suburban America, her stories reveal the intimate struggles behind migration, family ties, lost love, and cultural dislocation. Whether...- $ 350.00
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Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's wrenching and sensational debut story collection follows a cast of mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women through a contemporary landscape thick with inherited wisdom and the ghosts of colonization. This is a Hawai'i where unruly sexuality and generational memory overflow the...- $ 400.00
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Loveless Love
In 'The Wave', a young man falls dangerously in love with the tenant downstairs, who is engaged to be married; in 'The Signorina', a flirtatious young woman is caught between her feelings and her parents' desire for a good match; in 'A Friend to...- $ 500.00
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The Garden Party and Selected Short Stories
When her wealthy family prepares to host a lavish summer party, the young, hitherto sheltered Laura Sheridan suddenly feels a kinship with the staff and the helpers hired to set up the venue for the festivities. As she learns of the death of one...- $ 250.00
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Belkin's Stories and A History of Goryukhino Village
A playful and sharp-witted entry point into Russian literature, Belkin’s Stories presents five brief tales full of love, irony, and the unexpected—each narrated secondhand by the elusive Ivan Belkin. From duels and blizzards to ghostly encounters and ruined romances, Pushkin uses popular 19th-century genres...- $ 500.00
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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated from one of love and passion to jealousy and resentfulness, culminating in a mad act of desperation while she practised Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata with her...- $ 250.00
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The Etruscan Vase and Other Stories
When the young and sensitive Auguste Saint-Clair notices an Etruscan vase on the mantelpiece of his beloved Mathilde, he becomes gradually consumed by jealousy at the thought that it could be the gift of another man, and the situation escalates dramatically as he demands...- $ 330.00
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Carmen
When the Basque dragoon Don José meets a Gypsy woman at the factory he is guarding, he is immediately ensnared by her wiles. After she is arrested for injuring a co-worker and he helps her to flee, he is imprisoned and demoted, but she...- $ 300.00
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Boule de Suif
A carriage transporting ten passengers fleeing from Rouen is stopped at a village inn by Prussian soldiers, who decide to detain them until one of their party, the prostitute Boule de Suif, consents to sleep with their officer. When Boule de Suif refuses to...- $ 300.00
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Tales of Terror and Mystery
A fully annotated collection of spooky tales from the master writer behind Sherlock Holmes. While he is now mostly associated with his Sherlock Holmes stories, the prolific Arthur Conan Doyle was also celebrated for the many masterful tales he wrote outside of that cycle....- $ 300.00
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The Haunted House
Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the locals, invites a party of friends over; on Twelfth Night he and his guests gather together and relate the supernatural experiences they have had. The resulting ghost stories thrill,...- $ 400.00
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The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Novellas
Driven to his deathbed by an incurable disease, the thirty-year-old impoverished gentleman Chulkaturin decides to write a diary looking back on his short life. After describing his youthful disillusionment and his family's fall from grace and loss of status, the narrative focuses on his...- $ 300.00
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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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Small Fry and Other Stories
Universally acclaimed as the master of the short-story form, Anton Chekhov began his literary career as the author of brief tales and vignettes of Russian life when he was still a young medical student. Later rejected by the writer in the same self-effacing way...- $ 400.00
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Her Body and Other Parties
A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store's prom dresses....- $ 350.00
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The Canterville Ghost
Despite multiple warnings, Horace B. Otis and his family move to Canterville Chase, a sprawling English manor with a dark history and a lingering guest. From the brilliant mind of Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost is an irreverent mix of horror and humor. Canterville...- $ 250.00
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Great Short Works
Of all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably the best known to the Western world, largely because of War and Peace, his epic in prose, and Anna Karenina, one of the most splendid novels in any language. But during his long lifetime Tolstoy also...- $ 350.00
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