In 1995, the Japanese city of Kobe suffered a massive earthquake. Nearly 6,000 people died. after the quake was the imaginative response from Japan’s leading novelist, Haruki Murakami: six stories,...

It's the 1950's; after a nuclear blast in the mid-Pacific, a Thoreau-reading American Air Force General makes an unexpected and troubling discovery. There, in a flowery field on a tiny island in the...

This riveting and comprehensive collection brings together some of the best crime writing of all...

A gem of a collection perfect for anybody who likes to guess at 'whodunnit', this compilation includes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and...

A fantastic collection of short stories based on love written at a time when love was really romantic and gentlemen were real gentlemen. This is not a collection of slushy romance and beautiful...

All things supernatural and vampiric appear in these 5 stories on the theme of blood and horror. Richard Pasco reads with spine-chilling brilliance. This chiling selection of 'vampyre' short stories...

In I Am Legend, a terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive are transformed into blood-thirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the...

Tobias Wolff's first two books proved how the short story can "provoke our amazed appreciation" (New York Times Book Review). Now he returns with fresh revelations--about biding one's time,...

Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of ...

An exciting collection that contains contemporary works by writers such as the Japanese sensation Haruki Murakami, with other...