Anthologies & Short Stories

As the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, Halloween approaches. Come, brave listener, pull up a chair, and spend some time with master storyteller Stephen Fry as he tells us some of his favourite ghost stories of all time, in truly terrifying spatial audio....

The following books are included: Paingod and Other Delusions, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream, and From the Land of Fear....

From New York Times best-selling author Kendall Ryan comes Forbidden Desires: The Complete Series, containing every title in the sexy and intense best-selling series....

A treasure chest of timeless short stories by some of the world's greatest authors. Suspense and horror: 1. 'The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire' - Arthur Conan Doyle 2. 'The Signalman' - Charles Dickens 3. 'Lost Hearts' - MR James 4. 'The Sealed Room' - Arthur Conan Doyle 5. 'Mrs Badgery' -...

This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Fyodor Dostoyevky's greatest works: 15 novels and novellas, 18 short stories, a short study of Dostoyevsky by Virginia Woolf, and two books of non-fiction - his Letters and European travel journal....

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of My Name is Lucy Barton and the Oprah’s Book Club pick Olive, Again “Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You’ll never forget her...

Over a million copies sold. “A twisty, roller coaster ride of a debut. Fans of Gone Girl will embrace this equally evocative tale.” —Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author “I’ve been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she has her...

Originally published in 1895, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a marvel of supernatural fiction that has influenced a number of writers in the genre....

Brought to you by Penguin. 'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer. One of 46 books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic...

The Ultimate Horror Collection is a fully-indexed collection of over 60 classic horror stories, read by four Audie-winning narrators....

Eros is a stunning collection of short stories, grounded in truth and coloured with dazzling imagination and alluring unpredictable mystery.

This story is meant to be heard after you’ve finished the novel Elantris and takes place during the events of the climax....

Boasting the biggest beats in the world - some as large as France - Australia's outback police have seen it all....

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A thief, a candlemaker, an ex-mercenary, and a pig farmer walk into a trap…and what happens is no joke. When Riyria is hired to retrieve a jester’s treasure, Royce and Hadrian must match wits with a dwarf who proves to be anything but a fool.

College hockey rivals turned lovers Jackson Reed and Killian Blackwell are about to face their toughest match yet: Christmas with both their families at the Reed mansion.

In 1887, British ships continue to arrive at the bustling, growing port of Cape Town in South Africa. On board, one of them is a young man, Sebastian Brigandshaw, exiled from England by his abusive father....

Joyce's first major work, written when he was only 25, brought his city to the world for the first time....

Driving with a donkey stuffed in the back seat; jackdaws pecking brains out through the roof of a confessional box; cat piss and astronauts. This is the world not as you see it, but as it is, twisted from the maverick mind of Blindboy Boatclub....

This short story collection will take you into the depths of Beck’s dark imagination.

In this original compilation, Nikolai Gogol’s stories range from the whimsical and bizarre to the incisive and satiric, from the horrific and terrifying to the nonsensical and hilarious....

This tome brings together all of Lovecraft's harrowing stories, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, just the way they were when first released....

Collecting three lesser-known works by one of the 19th century's greatest authors, Jane Austen's Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon is edited with an introduction by Margaret Drabble in Penguin Classics....

Tim Winton's first collection of stories deals with men, women and children whose lives are coming apart and whose hearts are breaking....

When a storm reveals a mysterious cave behind a waterfall, the young mystic’s apprentice and her wolf investigate. Inside, she discovers a secret place containing a pile of human bones and the young girl makes what could be a fatal mistake....

I love my job as a wilderness guide, even when an adorable guy sends me splashing into a river. I messed around with some guys while in college, but I haven’t been attracted to a man since. Until I meet Onno, a sweet Dutch man visiting Forestville.

Sometimes the universe gives you exactly what you ask for. Even when you’re too scared to say it out loud. I came to Copper Creek to start over. What I didn’t expect was three masked cowboys to show up on horseback, turning my darkest fantasies into reality. They chased me like I’d asked them to and left me wanting more. I didn’t know who they were, only that they saw the real me. They gave me what no one else could.

Small fires start in the hearts of Kathleen Jennings’s characters and irresistibly spread to those around them. Journeys are taken, debts repaid, disguises put on, and lessons offered—although not often learned—in these fantastic tales. Jennings's confident voice lulls listeners into stepping off the known paths to find "Undine Love,” “The Heart of Owl Abbas,” and further unexpected places and people.

Questo volume comprende i racconti inediti "La prova" e "La guerra privata di Samuele, detto Leli". Le altre storie sono state pubblicate in tempi diversi: "L'uomo è forte" in Articolo 1. "Racconti sul lavoro", Sellerio, 2009; "I quattro Natali di Tridicino" in Storie di Natale, Sellerio, 2016; "La tripla vita di Michele Sparacino" in allegato al «Corriere della Sera», 2008 e Rizzoli, 2009; "La targa" in allegato al «Corriere della Sera», 2011 e Rizzoli, 2015. Una rete di storie, ovvero una proliferazione di intrecci sorprendenti, è questo libro di racconti.

Ten exciting and unique stories! This collection features stories by James Agee Jr., Adam Rose, Lorraine Bradner, Katie Johns, Damian Stevenson, Chris Manning, and Ted Garcia.

男の顔を見た瞬間、私の頭の中で小さな爆発が起きた――！　ムサシ、ポチ、ジョーら犬たちは近所の怪しい男との間に、（なぜか昔話風味の）前世からの因縁があったことを思い出す。

親友・清水の結婚式に出席することになった大友は、新婦の明香里から女性関係が派手な清水の調査を頼まれる。

Una visión actualizada de los cuentos clásicos desde una perspectiva feminista. Con el humor característico de la autora.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A thief, a candlemaker, an ex-mercenary, and a pig farmer walk into a trap…and what happens is no joke. When Riyria is hired to retrieve a jester’s treasure, Royce and Hadrian must match wits with a dwarf who proves to be anything but a fool. Difficult choices will need to be made, and in the end those who laugh last do so because they are the only ones to survive.

Alessandra si è lasciata convincere da sua madre a trascorrere il Natale in montagna, a casa di alcuni amici di famiglia. Ha accettato solo dopo aver saputo che il figlio dei loro amici, Tommaso, non ci sarà, perché impegnato in uno dei suoi viaggi esotici in giro per il mondo. I due si conoscono da tanti anni ma non sono mai andati particolarmente d'accordo, e Alessandra sogna un Natale tranquillo, non certo scene di guerriglia a tavola. Peccato che il destino abbia invece in serbo per lei delle feste piene di sorprese.

The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly between 1853 and 1855. The collection includes what has long been regarded as three of Melville's most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," "Benito Cereno," and "The Encantadas," his sketches of the Galápagos Islands.

Drawn together for the first time, this is a collection of Lily’s short stories about the much-loved men from her Mixed Messages and Finding Home series. Follow them through awkward marriage proposals, birthdays, a fraught babysitting job, and a very drunken Eurovision Song Contest party.

Tres historias interconectadas que detallan las investigaciones del príncipe Florizel de Bohemia y su fiel jefe de caballerías el coronel Geraldine; escritas por el brillante escritor Robert Louis Stevenson, respecto a una potente sociedad secreta y cruel que aprovecha las más bajas ruinas de las personas en situaciones de extrema vulnerabilidad, donde cada noche una siniestra partida de naipes decidirá el fatídico destino de sus participantes bajo las estrictas normas de EL CLUB DE LOS SUICIDAS.

The Insanity of Jones is one of Algernon Blackwood’s most haunting psychological tales—a gripping fusion of supernatural mystery, reincarnation, and unresolved vengeance that blurs the line between madness and metaphysical truth.

Chiara è disperata per essersi lasciata convincere a trascorrere le vacanze natalizie sulle Dolomiti insieme alla sua famiglia, invece di scappare verso l'agognato sole dei tropici. L'ultima volta che ha messo gli sci ai piedi, parecchi anni fa, si è ripromessa di non farlo mai più. Dovrà unirsi agli entusiasti sciatori e sperare di tornare tutta intera. Come se la situazione non fosse già di per sé difficile, dovrà anche avere a che fare con Giulio, l'enigmatico fratello del cognato.

A man gets into a car that can take him anywhere he can imagine—including the past, into the worst mistake of his life, a memory he does not want to relive, cannot escape, and is even more afraid to alter. A seemingly harmless, forgettable film about “alien hand syndrome” inspires a wave of self-harm among viewers—and even stranger things among those who become obsessed with it.

"The Cthulhu Mythos" is a system of cosmic entities, forbidden books, and macabre locations created by the American author, H. P. Lovecraft. Our original 2018 Mythos collection was based on Lin Carter's Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos, which defined a Mythos story as one that "presents a significant item of information about the background lore of the Mythos, thus contributing important information to a common body of lore."

Madeline lebt in einer Welt ohne Angst, Zweifel oder Chaos. Mit zweiundzwanzig Jahren darf sie endlich den ihr vorbestimmten Platz in der Gesellschaft einnehmen – an Kaans Seite, einem eigens für sie erschaffenen Gefährten. Alles ist perfekt! Doch je länger sie mit ihm zusammenlebt, desto stärker wächst ihr Verdacht, dass diese Perfektion nur ein Trugbild ist. Hinter der makellosen Fassade stimmt etwas nicht.

The Bell-Tower appeared in 1855 in Putnam's Monthly Magazine no. 32 (August). In the south of Europe, nigh a once frescoed capital, now with dank mould cankering its bloom, central in a plain, stands what, at distance, seems the black mossed stump of some immeasurable pine, fallen, in forgotten days, with Anak and the Titan.

"The Lightning-Rod Man" appeared in 1854, in Putnam's Monthly Magazine no. 20 (August). What grand irregular thunder, thought I, standing on my hearthstone among the Acroceraunian hills, as the scattered bolts boomed overhead and crashed down among the valleys, every bolt followed by zigzag irradiations, and swift slants of sharp rain, which audibly rang, like a charge of spear-points, on my low shingled roof. I suppose, though, that the mountains hereabouts break and churn up the thunder, so that it is far more glorious here than on the plain. Hark! - some one at the door.

In her life, there have only been three lovers. But Leslie doesn’t lament the meager number, she only truly mourns the second one. In her youthful arrogance, she turned him away, thinking there would be many more chances. Now, she lives two lives—one in the present, and another plagued by bittersweet memories of the past. But maybe, even now, it will be possible to reconcile the two.

Basheba Bell has spent years tracking the things that slip through the cracks—demons, spirits, and everything in between—armed with blades, instinct, and zero tolerance for monsters. But not all evil wears a monstrous face, and not every hunt ends clean. Join her and her husband Cadwyn as they confront a ghost that relives her death night after night, face a rat-like demon feasting on the forgotten, and discover a cursed doll in the bayou with secrets too close to home.

Delve into the festive world of Charles Dickens with this collection of twenty stories originally published in the Christmas editions of his periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round. While some tales brim with holiday spirit, others reveal Dickens' sharp critique of the social and economic injustices of his time. Each story offers a unique glimpse into the complexities of Victorian society, blending warmth, wit, and social commentary.

I stand with Ukraine and its people. What they are going through in resisting Russia's barbaric invasion of their homeland is truly unimaginable for those of us distant from the brutality of the conflict, but, with times being what they are, I just had to collect a few of my previously published stories that deal with Ukraine, civil protest, and the horrors of war for people to hear.

Com uma habilidade ímpar, Shirley Jackson vai do hilário ao horripilante para demonstrar seu poder de contar histórias. Única coletânea publicada enquanto Shirley Jackson ainda era viva, A loteria e outros contos traz histórias que incorporam tanto as características marcantes da escritora quanto seu poder de navegar pelos diversos aspectos da ficção. Publicado pela primeira vez em 1948 na revista The New Yorker, o conto "A loteria" é considerado um dos mais importantes da literatura americana.

On the frozen, alien expanse of Sabaku‑3, Gunnery Sergeant Lara Adair is on the brink of retirement as she fights her final contract with the Berserkers. Leading her platoon of towering Mauler mechs in a brutal campaign for control of a remote mining world, she clashes with relentless rebels across unforgiving terrain.