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A treasure trove of nine locked room mysteries from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award–winning author Gigi Pandian, all set in the Jaya Jones world. Appearing here for the first time, novelette The Cambodian Curse: When an ancient and supposedly cursed Cambodian sculpture disappears from an impenetrable museum, and the carving's owner is killed by an invisible assailant while a witness is a few feet away, historian Jaya Jones and her old nemesis Henry North team up to solve the baffling crime.

These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction. The title story, inspired by Raymond Carver’s masterpiece, is a provocative portrait of two marriages in which the Holocaust is played out as a devastating parlor game.

From a "genius" (New York Times) storyteller comes a new, subversive, hilarious, heart-breaking collection. "There is sweetheartedness and wisdom and eloquence and transcendence in his stories because these virtues exist in abundance in Etgar himself...I am very happy that Etgar and his work are in the world, making things better." —George Saunders. There's no one like Etgar Keret. His stories take place at the crossroads of the fantastical, searing, and hilarious.

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by “Buenos Aires’s sorceress of horror” (Samanta Schweblin, *The New York Times*). “Entertaining, political and exquisitely gruesome, these stories summon terror against the backdrop of everyday horrors… A queen of horror delivers more delightfully twisted stories.” —*Los Angeles Times* “As vivid and essential as Kafka’s tales.” —*Minneapolis Star-Tribune*.

New York Times Bestseller -- The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our nation. "Every piece is strong and memorable, making this not only likely to be the best anthology of the year, but one for the ages." -The Guardian.

These pieces showcase the range of Waugh's skills: Mr Loveday's Little Outing, Cruise, Period Piece, On Guard, An Englishman's Home, Excursion in Reality, Bella Fleace Gave a Party, Winner Takes All, Work Suspended, Scott-King's Modern Europe, Basil Seal Rides Again, and Charles Ryder's Schooldays.

Peggy comme un feu roulant. Peggy qui brûle tous ceux qu’elle touche. On retrouve dans cette nouvelle les thèmes de prédilection de Nelly Arcan : la dictature de la beauté, la cruauté des relations entre des êtres tourmentés par l’existence, l’amour, le désir, la difficulté de se construire une image de soi positive et saine. Peggy raconte tout cela, et plus encore, dans une langue à la fois naïve et directe, à partir de l’histoire d’une amitié ordinaire entre deux jeunes filles dissemblables et pourtant rongées de l’intérieur par le même spasme de vivre.

Nicola Barker weaves humor and tragedy through this fresh and original collection, as her characters struggle to find love, independence, and fulfillment in this new addition to the Ecco Art of the Story series. Nicola Barker's collection of her nineteen most brilliant stories exemplifies her ability to create daring, witty, and dynamic characters, all their idiosyncrasies intact. Barker's stories often use wordplay and humor to stretch the boundaries of metaphor and reality as the outrageously original plots unfold.

Experience The Magic of Shirley Jackson with this generous selection of the author’s greatest work. This collection consists of three complete books: The Bird’s Nest, Life Among the Savages, Raising Demons, and eleven short stories—including the world-famous “The Lottery.”

L’ouvrage Treize nouvelles vaudou explore l’imaginaire dans ses mystérieux labyrinthes. Une manière propre à l’écrivain Victor de sillonner le vaudou avec humour, force et passion. Ce jeune maître du fantastique va très loin, en puisant dans son quotidien les armes pour mieux voir la réalité. Le résultat est que dans ces nouvelles discrètes et subtiles, tombe la frontière entre réel et imaginaire, le visible et l’invisible. Les dieux et les hommes se mêlent à la même histoire loufoque qui s’appelle Vivre.