In his brilliant follow-up to In Sunlight or In Shadow, Lawrence Block has gathered together the best talent from popular fiction to produce an anthology as inventive as it is alluring, including Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, Michael ...

Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Geraldine Brooks, this year's collection will be another "sure bet for gripping, emotional challenging reading" (San Diego Union-Tribune). With Brooks picking the best of the ...

A Vintage Contemporaries OriginalIncludes:Jim Shepard's 'Tedford and the Megalodon'Glen David Gold's 'The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter'Dan Chaon's 'The Bees'Kelly Link's 'Catskin'Elmore Leonard's 'How Carlos Webster C...

In honor of the twentieth anniversary of The Private Eye Writers of America, this entertaining anthology of whodunits presents fourteen original stories by Max Allan Collins, Loren D. Estelman, Warren Murphy, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera,...

"A strong point for this volume is that almost all of the stories are by actual Haitians."—Publishers WeeklyPraise for the original Haiti Noir:"Danticat has succeeded in assembling a group portrait of Haitian culture ...

The Stoker Award-winning chilling anthology of 18 short stories in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today’s best horror writers. Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, ...

"The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories." —Shelf Awareness for Readers The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner J...

"The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories." — Shelf Awareness for ReadersThe Best American Short Stories 2014 will be selected by national best-selling ...

Lyrical, dark, comic or iconoclastic, the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight. Anne Enright has brought together a dazzling collection of Irish stories by authors born in the twentieth century - from Mary Lavin ...

From the fun of the fair to the depths of hell, experience sixteen more curses in this sequel to the bestselling Cursed: An Anthology. A blend of traditional and reimagined curses from fairy-tales to Snow White, from some of the b...

In its 25th year, we've turned the venerable series over--for the first time--to a non-Southerner, to see choices she'll make about the shape of Southern short fiction.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In this entertaining anthology, a group of bestselling authors and writers pay tribute to legendary, larger-than-life New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank and her literary ...

DIVA collection of original horror and dark fantasy from the world's best writers, including Stephen King and John Ajvide LindqvistPMany of us grew up on IThe Pan Book of Horror Stories and its later incarnations, IDark Voices and IDa...

A Bone-Chilling Collection of Tales Packed With Horrific Ghosts, Malevolent Spirits and the Poor Living Souls They HauntEveryone loves a good ghostly scare. From stories around the campfire to reading Goosebumps under the covers, you ...

RThis new anthology represents the most outstanding new short stories and novellas by both contemporary masters of horror and exciting newcomers. The award-winning series offers a chilling overview of this year in horror.

The first and bestselling volume of its kind showcases the country's finest short fiction. This year's stories come handpicked by a beloved master of the form and are sure to feature more unforgettable characters and extraordinary wri...

“The French Revolution comes alive through the eyes of six diverse and complex women, in the skilled hands of these amazing authors.”--Martha Hall Kelly, New York Times bestselling author of Lilac GirlsSix bestselling and award-wi...

Maybe one of the hidden benefits of everyone being so darn busy is the rise of the quickie! No one writes fresh fiction on quick sex better than Alison Tyler who has probably inspired more time-efficient trysts that any other eroticis...

Fourteen chilling tales from the pioneering women who created the domestic suspense genre Murderous wives, deranged husbands, deceitful children, and vengeful friends. Few know these characters-and their creators-better than Sarah Wei...

"[A] terrific and surprising collection of tales by a diverse group of writers . . . Count on them to transport you." —USA Today The Best American Short Stories 2017 will be edited by Meg Wolitzer, who is "almost crus...

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A best-selling novelist and Edgar Award winner, Lisa Scottoline brings her mastery of the thriller genre as well as her wit and heart to this collection of the must-reads in mysteries.