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Recently launched with ECW Press, Joyland eBooks presents new collections from the best voices in short fiction.

“Beautifully written…” – Jonathan Lethem

“One of the country’s best new writers.” – Eye Weekly

Marianne Ackerman's second collection of stories for Guernica puts the focus on women, their ascent into selfhood, the beauty and carnage of the their journey.

In these powerful stories the verandah people are Jonathan Bennett's own compatriots: Australians for whom the ever-present verandah is both stage and shelter, a retreat from hostile bushland or ci

Whether it’s a report from the real Cannes or a young couple discovering that reading Jacques Derrida aloud can lull their child to sleep, Jim Hanas finds the strange in the everyday and the everyd

All emotions are universal. We born, we dream, we strive, we die...Where the stars rise? Stories that bind us together regardless where we come from or where we are going-on Earth or in space.

Twenty-three science fiction and fantasy authors explore the depth and breadth of caring and of giving. They find insight, joy, devastation, and heroism in grand sweeps and in tiny niches.

In this volume of fifteen tales of the town known to readers of Anne of Green Gables, a Persian cat plays an amazing role in a marriage proposal, and a foolish lie threatens to make an unattached w

These early stories are fine vintage Wodehouse: the rivalry between the ugly policeman and Alf, the Romeo milkman; the plight of a "man with two left feet" who fell in love with a dance hostess; an

Jim Harrison's magnificent trilogy of short novels--Legends of the Fall, Revenge, and The Man Who Gave Up His Name--explores the theme of revenge and survival, adding up to an extraordinary vision

"The Lottery," one of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, created a sensation when it was first published in the New Yorker.

This collection of five stories set in "the Spookiest Town in America" includes "Long Way Home," "Mister Pockets," "Property Condemned," "Whistlin' past the Graveyard," and the new story "The Troub

This rare volume is a collection of some of Queen's best, containing three novelettes and two short stories. The stories include "The Death of Don Juan," "The Wrightsville Heirs," and more.

A collection of the best science fiction stories published between 1929 and 1964 as selected by Science Fiction Writers of America.

A collection of short stories that explore family relationships and emotions with gruesome and sometimes horrifying results.