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A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story.

Short fiction examining the mysteries of human character, from a New York Times–bestselling author acclaimed as “among the best in American literature” (Kirkus Reviews).

The stories collected in Bear and His Daughter span nearly thirty years - 1969 to the present - and they explore, acutely and powerfully, the humanity that unites us.

Close to Spider Man marks the debut of an exciting new literary talent—a collection of connected stories whose female narrators seek out lives for themselves amidst the lonely, breathtaking landsca

Common Bonds is an anthology of speculative short stories and poetry featuring aromantic characters.

Shakespeare called Othello "an extravagant and wheeling stranger/Of here and every where." In this exciting anthology, Caryl Phillips has collected writings by thirty-nine extravagant str

"Five charming novellas ...

Caribbean-Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring) is an internationally beloved storyteller.

Be warned, mothers should not read these stories to their children, even though they might contain a lonely elf, a talking moon, a butterfly that wants to be a rabbit, or a boy who was born with a

From a New York Times–bestselling author, short stories of the privileged class, spanning a century of New York history: "Urbane, humorous... a treat to read." —Library Journal.

First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult.

A collection of short stories from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of classic American southern literature.

In an age of minimalists, Eileen Pollack is a writer of rare generosity. The women and men in The Rabbi in the Attic are complex, vivid people to whom something happens.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

A masterful collection of short fiction from one of America's greats.