Short Story

Spending summer vacation at his grandparents’ boring seaside town was not at the top of Bennet’s vacation list. Like a modern-day Little Red Riding Hood, he discovers that his grandparents have a certain terrifying, lupine quality at the full moon....

Chet and Bernie - everybody's favorite human-canine detective team - are asked by a beautiful woman to find evidence that would put her cheating boyfriend in the doghouse....

With these audacious and murderously witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupations of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart and served up a gorgeous salad of American culture....

Retired Delta Force officer Brad Taylor delivers an action-packed short story that sets Pike Logan's partner, Jennifer Cahill, against a fellow Taskforce operator....

Karl Edward Wagner (1945-1994) has earned a reputation as one of the finest horror writers of the modern era, but his work has been out of print and nearly unobtainable for many years....

For the first time ever comes a collection of Extinction Cycle short stories that explore the human spirit and the fight for survival in the face of overwhelming odds from some of the leading voices in the post-apocalyptic genre....

Among the greats of 20th-century horror and fantasy, few names stand above Richard Matheson. Though known by many for his novels, Matheson truly shines in his chilling, masterful short stories....

“I’m not scared,” he said, and for the first time in a long time, he felt total peace with his choice. Welcome to the captivating world of ...

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction....

In the 1950s and early 1960s, before television reigned preeminent, Kurt Vonnegut's short stories...

In the powerful, haunting stories of Munro’s collection, men and women, in the midst of contemporary quandaries and crises, recall the long-buried yearnings, dreams, and hard choices that have given shape to their lives....

The Horus Heresy is an epic conflict spanning hundreds of worlds and thousands of battles, laced with countless tales of heroism and valour, betrayal and villainy. This anthology collects some of the most memorable, featuring every one of the Loyalist and Traitor Legions....

A darkly funny short story about one woman’s reflections on the routes she’s taken through life and the detours she’s made along the way. Doubts and guilt swirl through her mind as she rides the train to her fertility appointment....

Improve your German skills and grow your vocabulary with these 10 entertaining German short stories....

Whether writing about loving and bickering couples, angry suburbanites, frustrated job-seekers, or Jewish children performing a Christmas play, Grace Paley captured the loneliness, poignancy, and humor of the human experience with matchless style....

Andrea Camilleri has selected 21 short stories, written with his trademark wit and humor, that follow Italy's famous detective through highlight cases of his career....

A BBC radio collection of full-cast dramatisations, bringing together Edith Wharton’s most popular and best-loved works....

From the greatest novelist of the Victorian era comes a ghostly short story, now reimagined in 3D sound. A lone narrator meets a railway worker who is confined to a cold, gloomy station in a deep cutting near a tunnel entrance....

A blinding snowstorm - and a homicidal maniac - traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate....

Short Stories for Elderly is a delightful collection of 50 stories specifically tailored to provide stimulation for the minds of seniors. Featuring a diverse mixture of funny stories as well as uplifting anecdotes, this book will bring your elderly loved ones a renewed sense of joy and purpose....