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A Place Between Waking and Forgetting is dark speculative fiction, an Afro-Irreal collection in which transformative stories of culture, diversity, climate change, unlimited futures, collisions of worlds, mythology, and more,...

  Dazzling stories of love, magic and betrayal . . . A sensational collection from internationally bestselling author Olivie Blake.   Once upon a time, in a land far, far...

When truth is more gruesome than fiction—Ha Seong-nan is there. When people give in to their most intrusive thoughts—Ha Seong-nan is there. When man is more animal than animals themselves—Ha...

Classic Stories from Korea's Enchanted Past Fifty-five folktales offer a fascinating window into the Korean world. Told with wit and pathos, this lively collection of Korean fables features the ever-iconic...

'Listen to me, child. You will be a woman soon and must behave well and with modesty. The Kazi will ask you three times whether you will marry Kalloo Mian....

In this collection of short stories, offbeat characters are caught up in extraordinary situations that test the boundaries of reality . . .A love-hungry goddess of the sea arrives on...

A hotly charged new work of fiction from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Real Life In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among...

A dazzling debut collection which, deftly and urgently, tells the stories of those living in the biggest and most complicated country on earth.A brother competes for gaming glory while his...

New Fiction by Afghan Women "My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those dreams we are not...

From New York Times-bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, AYITI is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience. In AYITI, a married couple seeking boat passage to America prepares to leave...

A celebratory 20th anniversary edition of this landmark collection from Black writers across the literary spectrumThis ground-breaking anthology was first published twenty years ago, into a different literary landscape. Showcasing...

'One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer' — Haruki MurakamiThe stories in this fantastical, unconventional collection are subtly wrought depictions of...

Short stories set in contemporary Malaysia and Singapore, depicting the lives of the lonely, desperate and heartbroken in their morally-subjective worlds.Two figures sit in a car, waiting to commit a...

‘Fortunes rise and fall. One day you have a lucky ticket and get a dinner so good and you eat so much that you think you’ll never need to eat...

An ever-increasing malice. A mind-numbing terror. The seeds of horror are sown in this collection of Junji Ito’s earliest works. A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years...

and Other StoriesWith an introduction by Helen OyeyemiWhimsical and sinister, each story by Silvina Ocampo is like a knife of spun sugar that can still pierce between your ribs. A...

Translated by Daniel HahnMachado de Assis is one of the most enigmatic and fascinating story writers who ever lived. What appear at first to be stately social satires reveal unanticipated...

17 Tales Across Realms & SpaceFollow princesses warring in space, haunting ghost stories in Argentina, mermaids off the coast of the Caribbean, swamps that whisper secrets, and many more realms...

Beware the women who are called witches, or those who claim the name for themselves...Banshees — a howling night-witch and harbinger of death; She-devils — Lilith and her daughters; or...

Childhood best friends decide to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret. A young heiress embarks on a secret affair, ending in devastation but not for the party...

A thrillingly universal portrait of a young woman caught between two culturesKara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be...

Ten Years of First Nations Storytelling An anthology of writing produced by Indigenous creatives from Western Sydney that has been praised by ArtsHub as 'a light shone on First Nations...

Ten tales of loss and longing, from one one Japan's greatest writersBringing together Yukio Mishima's finest stories, this selection shows his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human...

One night, you will calmly put a knife to your husband's penis and promise to cut it off. It will scare him so much that the next day, he will...

Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world.Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Miyazawa's stories have the ageless feel of the best...

A stunning collection of stories that weaves Hawaiian mythology with a vivid fabulism and rich sense of place. In Hawaii, a cast of women reckon with physical and emotional alienation,...

Kuracca — meaning white sulphur crested cockatoo — is a multi-lingual anthology featuring eleven Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women writing poetry, prose, songs and stories about their unique lives....

A collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales According to Chinese tradition, those who die hungry or unjustly come back to haunt the living. Some are appeased with food, but not all...

'What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real' A lavishly illustrated edition of Murakami's classic short story.Katagiri found a giant frog waiting for him in his apartment. It...

Stories WINNER OF THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZEWINNER OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & LETTERS SUE KAUFMAN PRIZEWINNER OF THE...

Acclaimed author of The Anthropologists Aysegül Savaş’s acute and tender first collection explores the distances we keep, and those we try to close, in the age of connectivity.A researcher abroad in Rome...

Everybody got a story, everybody got a taleQuestion is: Is it despair or prevail? Banneker Terrace on 129th and Fred Doug ain't pretty, but it's home. Home to young and...

Jordan Peele curates this groundbreaking anthology of brand new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our...

Sharp and funny, brilliant and prescient: a new collection of short stories that offer a dazzling insight into the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history. Danielle Evans is...

Conspiracies, memes, and therapies of various efficacy underpin this beguiling short-story collection from Elizabeth Tan.In the titular story, a cat-shaped oven tells a depressed woman she doesn’t have to be...

Dazzling new short stories from Salman Rushdie that transport us around the world from Bombay neighbourhoods to elite English universities, in his first new fiction since Victory CityIf old age was...

Originally featured in the New Yorker’s ‘Talk of the Town’ column, these are Jamaica Kincaid’s first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York. ‘Fresh, risky, improvisational and hard-to-categorize writing’ - Chicago Tribune Talk...

Caribbean-Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring) is an internationally beloved storyteller. This long-awaited new collection of her deeply imaginative short fiction offers striking journeys to far-flung futures...

You think you know these stories, don’t you? You are wrong. You don’t know them at all. Twelve tales, twelve dangerous tales of mystery, magic, and rebellious hearts. Each twists...

Winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, this collection of 3 tales of memory in wartime France is perfect for fans of Helen Oyeyemi and Banana Yoshimoto Visiting a friend in...

Classic Japanese Ghost Stories Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries. From Goblin infested caves and haunted...

The most 'thrilling and disturbing' (Financial Times) literary horror of 2024 The supernatural looms over the grime and sweat of everyday life in Lagos in this dazzling collection of stories...

A mythical water ferret once native to the Dutch waterways adapts to the terrestrial realm, taking up residence in the sand dunes. A park ranger becomes obsessed with the water ferrets’...

Translated by Lucy North The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international prize-winning author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt. Asa tries to give her...

A richly imagined short-story collection that deftly explores the connections that bind us- how we make them, maintain them, or even break them when they no longer serve us In...

 'We're mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can...

Melanie Cheng's vivid and absorbing panorama of Australian culture was the winner of the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Indie Book Award...

An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed...

Two cult-favorite Japanese artists present eerie graphic adaptations of 9 classic Kafka short stories, with hypnotic illustrations that will appeal to fans of Junji Ito Franz Kafka’s work is given...

Night of the Living Queers is a YA horror anthology that explores a night when anything is possible, exclusively featuring queer authors of color putting fresh spins on classic horror...