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Welcome to the Dark. We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed.

"Larry Brown writes like a force of nature." -Pat Conroy.

Narrated in the first person, this short story is one episode in the life of a Russian labour-camp inmate.

A hilarious collection of overlapping stories that explores the dark zone between artistic ambition and its achievement by the author of Early Work.

Recognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is also noted as a master of the short story in his native Japan, where the form is practiced as a maj

The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genre—including stories from award-winning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoff

Gene Wolfe, whose tetralogy The Book of the New Sun was the most acclaimed science fiction work of the 1980s, offered his second collection of short fiction in 1990 to universal acclaim.

Facing the Music, Larry Brown's first book, was originally published in 1988 to wide critical acclaim. As the St.

“A haunting, engrossing portrait of two families – one white, one Black – whose lives are woven together and then shattered” (The Washington Post) by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

Bernhard Schlink brings to these seven superbly crafted stories the same sleek concision and moral acuity that made The Reader an international bestseller.

"Forget all your fears now.

Heading Inland is a funny, broody, saucy collection of stories about the kind of people you sometimes meet but might prefer to ignore.

This collection of short stories by Bernard Malamud includes: Idiots First, Black Is My Favorite Color, Still Life, The Death of Me, A Choice of Profession, Life Is Better Than Death, The Jewbird,

Gene Wolfe may be the single best writer in fantasy and science fiction of his generation.

A new story collection from "one of Europe's most exciting writers" (New York Times Book Review) deftly evokes and explores the shifts that occur when the world grows dark.