Short Stories

Strange, intimate, haunted, and hungry―Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and surreal fiction debut by award-winning author Ananda Lima. At a Halloween party in 1999, a...

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...

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...

Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake. For the characters in After the Quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a...

Translated by Anton Hur SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF A PEN/HEIM TRANSLATION GRANT A woman is haunted by her own bodily waste. A pregnant woman is told...

Akutagawa was one of the towering figures of modern Japanese literature, and is considered the father of the Japanese short story. This paradigmatic selection, which includes the stories that inspired...