Anthologies: general Books

'I have stood on the dim shore beyond time and matter and seen it. It moves through strange curves and outrageous angles. Some day I shall travel in time and meet it face to face.' Unlike nineteenth-century Gothic fiction, which tends to fixate on the...

Since Odysseus' curious crew first unleashed the bag of winds gifted to him by Aeolus, the God of Winds, literature has been awash with tales of bad or strange weather. From the flood myths of Babylon, the Mahabharata and the Bible, to twentieth-century...

'Its long antennae waved inquiringly back and forth, its tiny eyes sparkled black with crimson points, and then it began to run. The Professor caught it in his hand as it toppled from the edge of the counter. It bit him.'A brush with a killer hornet...

"Curiously enough," said Dr. Manners, "I know a story in which the detection of a murder turned on the behaviour of a bird: in this instance a jackdaw."Since the dawn of the crime fiction genre, animals of all kinds have played a memorable part in...

Woods play an important and recurring role in horror, fantasy, the gothic and the weird. They are places in which strange things happen, where you often can't see where you are or what is around you. Supernatural creatures thrive in the thickets. Trees...

'"After all," said our host, "it's Christmas. Why not let the cat out of the bag?"'A Postman murdered while delivering cards on Christmas morning. A Christmas pine growing over a forgotten homicide. A Yuletide heist gone horribly wrong. When there's as...

An honest policeman, Sergeant Wigan, escorts a drunk man home one night to keep him out of trouble and, seeing his fine book collection, slowly falls in to the gentle art of book collecting. Just as the friendship is blossoming, the policeman's...

There was a faint rustling sound, like some small silk thing blown in a gentle breeze. He sat up straight, stark and scared, and a small wooden voice spoke in the stillness. "Pa-pa," it said, with a break between the syllables.From living dolls to...

The English country house is an iconic setting for some of the greatest British crime fiction. Short stories are an important part of this tradition, and writers from Agatha Christie to Margery Allingham became famous for the intricate cases which their...

To take a leap of faith is to bet your belief on an unknown future. But belief is central to the human experience whether it's religious, political, societal, philosophical or spiritual, the act of believing can be a lodestar, a comfort, a ritual, a...

Amy Lane's Fish Out of Water universe has expanded to include garage mechanics, assassins, nurses, psychics, and adult film stars. Many of them forged a safe, hidden haven in Victoriana--the middle of the desert.This collection of shorts revolves mostly...

A classic collection of mystery stories: "With skillful plotting laced with tongue-in-cheek humor, Allingham never ceases to intrigue and surprise" (Daily Mail).This volume offer eighteen delightful mysteries from the Queen of Crime that will baffle the...

In Sanctuary, knowledge can often be the deciding factor between utter defeat and hard-won victory.Now fans of Diablo can seize these ancient - and sometimes, forbidden - truths with Horadric Vault: The Complete Collection. This unmatched boxed set...

Twelve original dark academia stories from bestselling thriller writers.Imagine darkened libraries, exclusive elite schools, looming Gothic towers, charismatic professors, illicit affairs, the tang of autumn in the air...and the rivalries and obsessions...

A family on the last starship finds that stories themselves may very well save a dying world. A man finds a new lease on life in an ancient dingus. A phone that can be used to call a few minutes into the future leads to unexpected turmoil. An anthroid on...

A collection of previously unpublished writing culled from the Kerouac archiveJack Kerouac's archive is vast. Throughout his life he was constantly writing, and he meticulously saved and catalogued his material. The result is that beyond the work...

The National Black Theatre Festival (NBTF) was created in 1989 by Larry Leon Hamlin, founder of North Carolina Black Repertory Company (NC Black Rep) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. NC Black Rep hosts this festival every two years. Hamlin's goal in...

"Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging...potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit."-Washington Post"Terrifying and fearlessly inventive."-New York TimesThe first complete collection of Wanda Coleman's original...

The most enjoyable way to learn about an unfamiliar culture is through its stories--especially when they're told in two languages!Thai Stories for Language Learners introduces 28 entertaining Thai stories with bilingual Thai and English versions...

Franz Kafka: The Office Writings brings together, for the first time in English, Kafka's most interesting professional writings, composed during his years as a high-ranking lawyer with the largest Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute in the Czech Lands...

A new collection of short fiction from Kill Your Darlings.An opera singer loses her voice. Sex releases memories. A lake monster captures a town's attention. Two young men take their vapes and big ambitions and go On The Road.New Australian...

Like the answer to a riddle, status is all around us, but it can't always be seen or heard. The silent switchboard behind our professional and personal interactions, status dictates our place on the guest list, in the room, at the table; through its...

What is the best way to tell a story?In this anthology, the first-ever collection of essays by innovative, cutting-edge writers on the theme of narration, forty of the continent's top experimental writers describe their engagement with language,...

"One of the freshest, most memorable story collections of my lifetime. And 'A Good Man,' one of the most important. Rarer than the newness, the wit, the vivid readability, is the deep caring understanding, the wholeness, the truth which this astonishing,...

Lake Minnetonka is renowned for its natural beauty as well as the prominent people it has attracted to its shores as a historic site of grand hotels, steamboats, and wealthy visitors from around the world, and as the home of the legendary Excelsior...

The visual images of Queen Elizabeth I displayed in contemporary portraits and perpetuated and developed in more recent media, such as film and television, make her one of the most familiar and popular of all British monarchs.This collection of essays...

One of the most important books of illustrated poetry in English literature, William Blake's Songs of Innocence was meticulously relief-etched, printed and coloured in 1789. A unique work of composite art, it contains some of Blake's most enduring and...

Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began a correspondence that would span four decades. They exchanged letters, cards and telegrams, and made occasional phone calls between...

The saga continues in Terry and the Pirates Volume 8, reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs!Pat Ryan's bittersweet reunion with the entire Sandhurst family-including young daughter Merrily-is cut short when they...

Relics, Dreams, Voyages is a closely focused sequence of studies of worldwide connections in all the arts in the baroque period. Drawing on original research in libraries, collections, and archives in five countries, and in as many languages, this book...

A collection of 15 classic Chinese folk stories - passed down from generation to generation - presented in both Chinese and English.Welcome to the land of Chinese folklore, a delightful corner of the Chinese heritage that remains relatively unexplored in...

Despite moral pressure and exhaustion, Sentsov's records display his diligence and objective eye as filmmaker and activist.A remarkable two-book volume: Diary of A Hunger Striker, the first-hand account of celebrated Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov,...

New and exclusive short stories and poems inspired by bad mothers from some of today's fiercest women in horror. Featuring Rachel Harrison, Gwendolyn Kiste, Kristi DeMeester, and Kelsea Yu, edited by Lindy Ryan with a foreword by Sadie 'Mother...

In this anthology of microliterature over forty writers reflect on the theme of remnant in contexts ranging from the natural world and the urban environment through to the personal and the political. Each contribution, at less than a page in length,...

Thirty-seven writers from First Nations, migrant and refugee backgrounds reveal the true wealth and beauty of Australia's cultural melting pots.Australia is often referred to as The Lucky Country - a land of economic opportunity and vast natural...

The past, famously, is a foreign country - but in the twenty-first century, it's one in which we increasingly seek solace. No matter the relentless pace of technological innovation and the digitisation of everything from money to media our appetites for...

Seven essays that make the compelling case for coming to your own informed conclusions in an age of extremes. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the...

From the organisers of the Palestine Festival of Literature, this anthology of essays connects Palestinian resistance with global freedom struggles against settler colonialism and calls on us to think more concretely about the practice of solidarity.The...

The saga continues in Terry and the Pirates Volume 7, reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs!Embroiled in the guerilla struggle against the invader, Terry meets "Madame Lustre" (AKA Burma!) and matches wits German...

Just as Odin's ravens, named Huginn and Muninn (translated to Thought and Memory), would whisper everything he couldn't see, so too do these and other mythical ravens-of Athena, the Biblical Eve and Noah, Coronis, and others-function in Jamison's essay...

Gunslingers. Lawmen. Snake-oil Salesmen. Cowboys. Mad Scientists. And a few monsters.The Old West has never been wilder!THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UNCANNY presents sixteen original and never-before-published adventures by some of today' s most visionary...

In prose that is both unflinching and lyrical, Suzi Ehtesham-Zadeh presents Zan, a collection of stories that provide a deep and nuanced view of contemporary Iranian women as they navigate a crucial moment in their nation's history.A university student...

A collection of award-winning short stories by Harlan Ellison, an eight-time Hugo Award winner, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and four-time Nebula Award winner.As one of the great writers of speculative fiction of the twentieth century, Harlan...

Here, in one volume, are the stories that transformed Sherlock Holmes into a household name: the fateful first meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson inA Study in Scarlet, the mysterious treasure ofThe Sign of the Four, the formidable Irene Adler of A...

One of The Millions Most Anticipated Books for Spring!Featured in Alta Magazine's New Books for May!Short stories from 25 emerging and established writers of Middle Eastern and North African origins, a unique collection of voices and viewpoints...

A collaborative book by two extraordinary Black artists about finding beauty in the chaos. Roger Mooking is well-known as a celebrity chef and the host of such television shows as the Cooking Channel's Man Fire Food and Everyday Exotic; he is...

From Ellen Datlow - 'the venerable queen of horror anthologies' per the New York Times - comes a new entry in the series that has brought you thrilling stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, the best horror stories available.For...

"Caniff visualized his setup with a cinematic flair that remains thrilling because it is played straight." -The New Yorker"Arguably the greatest of all adventure strips." - The WashingtonPostThe saga continues inTerry and the PiratesVolume 6, reproduced...