Short stories

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Classic Science Fiction Stories
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An exciting collection of short stories showcasing the very best of classic science-fiction writing.
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Standing Her Ground
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A celebration in stories of some of the most influential and groundbreaking women writers in the English language.
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A Place Like Home
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A spellbinding collection of 15 stories from multi-million copy, internationally bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher, published posthumously two years after her death, with an introduction by Sund...
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The Nature of Middle-Earth
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This elegant slipcased edition presents for collectors the first ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects. Stamped in gol...
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Heavy weather
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Since Odysseus’ curious crew first unleashed the bag of winds gifted him by Aeolus, the God of Winds, literature has been awash with tales of bad or strange weather. From the flood myths of B...
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Promethean horrors
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Froml the imaginations of Gothic short-story writers such as Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, and such later weirdists as H.P. Lovecraft, came one of the most complex of villains...
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Evil roots
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Strangling vines and meat-hungry flora fill this unruly garden of strange stories, selected for their significance as the seeds of the ‘killer plant’ trope in fiction, film and video ga...
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The burrow
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After Franz Kafka’s death, in perhaps the most important of all acts of literary disobedience, his executor refused to agree to Kafka’s wish that his great mass of unpublished fiction b...
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The weird tales of William Hope Hodgson
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The splash from something enormous resounds through the sea-fog. In the stillness of a dark room, some unspeakable evil is making its approach. Abandon the safety of the familiar with 10 nerve-wrac...
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Men Without Women
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‘I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.’ Across seven tales, H...
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Scenes of London Life
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Thirteen stories from Charles Dickens’s Sketches by Boz, selected and introduced by the inimitable J. B. Priestley
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Desire
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You’ve just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you’re destined for – what do you do? In Murakami’s world, you tell them a story. The...
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Complete Ghost Stories
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A chilling collection of ghost stories by the incomparable M. R. James, presented in a beautiful collector’s edition.
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Grimms’ Fairy Tales
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The most famous and enchanting collection of fairytales ever published
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Trigger Warning
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A rich cornucopia of horror and ghost stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry that explores the realm of experience and emotion. It will open your eyes to the inexhaustible su...
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Dont Look Now & Other Stories
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John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter’s death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that instead of ...
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The blue bedroom
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This collection of short stories from the author of The Shellseekers illustrates Rosamunde Pilcher’s storytelling skills at their best.
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Breaking Point Short Stories
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In this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed, Daphne du Maurier explores the boundaries of reality and imagination.
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The world of Jeeves
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This is an omnibus of wonderful Jeeves and Wooster stories, specially selected and introduced by Wodehouse himself, who was struck by the size of his selection and described it as almost the ideal ...
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Very good, Jeeves
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Written by P.G. Wodehouse, the stories collected in this title follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster, an upper-class 1920s playboy and his butler Jeeves.
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Blind Willow Sleeping Woman
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Included in this collection of stories is one in which a mirror appears out of nowhere and a night-watchman is unnerved as his reflection tries to take control of him, and another in which a couple...
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Birthday stories
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This is a collection of birthday stories from some of the most distinguished authors of recent years. The stories have been selected and introduced by Haruki Murakami.
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Smoke and mirrors
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An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat in a second-hand store. A young couple receive a wedding gift that will reveal a chilling alternative history of their marriage and a l...
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The Birds and Other Stories
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A collection of sinister short stories including ‘The Birds’ which was famously adapted for film by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Vintage Classics Snows Of Kilimanjaro
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From haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro to brutal sensationalism in the bullring; from rural America with its deceptive calm to the heart of war-ravaged Europe, each of the sto...
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After The Quake
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This is a collection of six short stories from the cult Japanese writer, exploring the violence beneath the surface of modern Japan.
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Elephant Vanishes
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This collection of stories exposes Japan as it is experienced from the inside. The stories take place in parallel worlds, not so much remote from normal life as hidden beneath its surface.
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Vintage Classic Bloody Chamber
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Angela Carter has taken old fairy stories, subtly altering and changing them to create strange glittering tales that will haunt the reader.
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