Best Gothic Short Stories - April 2024

Best Short Stories of the Modern Age

The short-stroy form continues to be a rich and fertile vein of literary expression. Collected in this remarkable volume are twenty renowned writers of the modern age who brilliantly mastered the distinctive power and beauty of the form--each bringing his or her own unique vision to the page. This powerful collection includes the work of: Sherwood Anderson, Anton Chekov, Joseph Conrad, Shirley Jackson, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Lionel Trilling, and many more.

• ASIN: 0449300587
• ASIN: 0449300587
• ISBN: 0449300587
• Manufacturer: Fawcett

The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain (Modern Library Classics)

• ASIN: B000XUDHNE
• ASIN: B000XUDHNE
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century

Since its first printing in 1954, this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers, students, and lovers of short fiction. Surveying stories by British and American writers in the first half of the twentieth century, editors Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine selected stories that broke new ground and challenged the imagination with their style, subject matter, or tone: the unforgettable, enduring works that shaped the literature of our time.A truly exceptional collection of great stories, including:The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen CraneThe Horse Dealer’s Daughte... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0440378648
• ASIN: 0440378648
• ISBN: 0440378648
• Manufacturer: Dell

American Short Story Masterpieces: A Rich Selection of Recent Fiction from America's Best Modern Writers

This highly acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. Editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that “tells a story”–and tells it with a masterful handling of language, situation, and insight. But what is so special about this volume is that it mirrors our age, our concerns, and our lives. Whether it’s the end of a marriage, as in Bobbie Ann Manson’s “Shiloh,” or the struggle with self-esteem and weight in Andre Dubus’s “The Fat Girl,” the 36 works included her probe issues that ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0440204232
• ASIN: 0440204232
• ISBN: 0440204232
• Brand: 2049145481
• Manufacturer: Dell

The Best of Roald Dahl

If Stephen King could write with murderous concision, he might have come up with "The Landlady," the story of a boarding house with an oddly talented proprietress and a small but permanent clientele. If Clive Barker had a sense of humor, he might have written "Pig," a brutally funny look at cooks and vegetarianism. And a more bloodthirsty Jorge Luis Borges might have imagined the fanatical little gambler in "Man From the South," who does his betting with a hammer, nails, and a butcher knife.But all these stories in this volume were written by Roald Dahl, whose genius for the horrific and grot... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679729917
• ASIN: 0679729917
• ISBN: 9780679729914
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

A chilling compilation of some of Edgar Allen  Poe's best-loved stories, edited by Vincent Price and  Chandler Brossard and with an introduction by  Vincent Price, including: The Black  Cat - The Fall of the House of Usher - The Masque  of the Red Death - The Facts in the Case of M.  Valdemar - The Premature Burial - Ms. Found in a Bottle  - A Tale of the Ragged Mountains - The Sphinx -  The Murders in the Rue Morgue - The Tell-Tale Heart  - The Gold-Bug - The System of Dr. Tarr and  Prof. Fether - The Man That Was Used Up - The Balloon  Hoax - A Descent Into the Maelstro... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0440322278
• ASIN: 0440322278
• ISBN: 9780440322276
• Brand: Poe, Edgar Allan
• Manufacturer: Dell

The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories

• ASIN: 1400034825
• ASIN: 1400034825
• ISBN: 1400034825
• Brand: Marcus, Ben (EDT)
• Manufacturer: Anchor

Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy)

One of the greatest writers of the gothic fantastic, Poe’s dark, masterful stories inspired a generation of writers. With his macabre twists of fate and fascination with science and invention his work led to the detective stories of Sherlock Holmes, the weird horror of H.P. Lovecraft and the grim, tortured tales of Stephen King.

• ASIN: 1786645459
• ASIN: 1786645459
• ISBN: 1786645459
• Manufacturer: Flame Tree Publishing

Best Short Stories of Jack London

"Raw and Raked, Wild and Free..."...that was the way Jack London saw life, and the more he lived it the more enamored of it he became. "All I saw," he once wrote, "was glamor of conquest, of scarlet adventure and yellow gold. ...The life was brave and wild, and I was living the adventure I had read so much about."Brilliant, poetic, swift with violence and action, his stories clearly illustrate the unique spirit of his unbridled genius. Critics admitted that the young firebrand -- "while frightfully primitive" -- was challenging Poe, Kipling and Melville as a one-in-a-million storyteller. The t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0449300536
• ASIN: 0449300536
• ISBN: 0449300536
• Brand: London, Jack
• Manufacturer: Fawcett

Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel

• ASIN: B000UMN7C6
• ASIN: B000UMN7C6
• Manufacturer: Amistad

Fifty Great American Short Stories

A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike. The Classic Stories Edgar Allan Poe’s Ms. Found in a Bottle Bret Harte’s The Outcasts of Poker Flat Sherwood Anderson’s Death in the Woods Stephen Vincent Benét’s By the Waters of Babylon The Great Writers Melville James Dreiser Faulkner Hemingway SteinbeckMcCullers The Little-Known Masterpieces Edith Wharton’s The DilettanteFinley Peter Dunne’s Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of FiremanCharles M. Flandrau’s A Dead IssueJames Reid Parker’s The Archimandrite’s Niece

• ASIN: 0553272942
• ASIN: 0553272942
• ISBN: 0553272942
• Manufacturer: Bantam Classics

The Complete Stories (FSG Classics)

Winner of the National Book AwardThe publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. O'Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, "Judgement ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0374515360
• ASIN: 0374515360
• ISBN: 0374515360
• Brand: Noonday Press
• Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Hawthorne's Short Stories (Vintage Classics)

Twenty-four of the best short stories by one of the early masters of the form, in the definitive collection edited by acclaimed scholar Newton Arvin.Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest American writers of the nineteenth century, and some of his most powerful work was in the form of fable-like tales that make rich use of allegory and symbolism. The dark beauty and moral force of his imagination are evident in such enduring masterpieces as "Young Goodman Brown," in which a young man who believes he has witnessed a satanic initiation can never see his pious neighbors the same way again; �... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307741214
• ASIN: 0307741214
• ISBN: 0307741214
• Brand: Vintage Books USA
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Dark Tales

For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson’s scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh  After the publication of her short story “The Lottery” in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickly established as a master horror storyteller. This collection of classic and newly reprinted stories provides readers with more of her unsettling, dark tales, including the “The Possibility of Evil” and “The Summer People.” In these deliciously dark stories, the daily commute turn... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143132008
• ASIN: 0143132008
• ISBN: 0143132008
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Early Stories: 1953-1975

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction   A harvest and not a winnowing, this volume collects 103 stories, almost all of the short fiction that John Updike wrote between 1953 and 1975. “How rarely it can be said of any of our great American writers that they have been equally gifted in both long and short forms,” reads the citation composed for John Updike upon his winning the 2006 Rea Award for the Short Story. “Contemplating John Updike’s monumental achievement in the short story, one is moved to think of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, and perhaps William F... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345463366
• ASIN: 0345463366
• ISBN: 0345463366
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

The Best American Short Stories 2018

Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short

• UPC: 746152764

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories

An award-winning short-story writer introduces the stories she has selected from such authors as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Alexie, Roth, Updike, Oates and more, to present a decade-by-decade examination of the literary trends captured by this series

• UPC: 45056350
• Rating: 5.0

The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated by Harry Clarke with an Introduction by Edmund Clarence Stedman)

Some of the most popular horror and mystery stories of all time are collected together here in "The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe." A master of the macabre, Poe exhibits his literary prowess

• UPC: 53009038

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

9781420938036

• UPC: 21019188
• Rating: 4.25

Best Russian Short Stories - eBook

For centuries, critics and fans alike have extolled the virtues of the Russian masters of fiction, with many ranking them among the foremost literary artists the world has ever produced. This volume collects finely crafted

• UPC: 699648974
• Rating: 3.5

The Best American Short Stories 2017

Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short

• UPC: 55971052
• Rating: 5.0

Selected Tales and Sketches (the Best Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne)

"Selected Tales and Sketches" is a collection of the best short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Collected here are the following tales: The Gray Champion, Sunday at Home, The Minister's Black Veil, The May-Pole of Merry

• UPC: 6105733
• Rating: 5.0

The Best American Short Stories 2005

The Best American Series First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from

• UPC: 34682001
• Rating: 3.75

The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard - eBook

First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of J. G. Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology,

• UPC: 750516487
• Rating: 4.5

The Best American Short Stories 2016

Award-winning and best-selling author Junot Díaz guest edits this year’s The Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short

• UPC: 52289146
• Rating: 4.0