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By John Joseph Adams. 2015
A collection of short fiction focusing on climate fiction, which explores the twenty-first-century world as the effects of global warming…
become evident. Features stories from Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kim Stanley Robinson, Seanan McGuire, and many others. Strong language. 2015By Joe Hill, John Joseph Adams. 2015
Twenty stories, selected by editor Hill as the best published in 2015. Contributors include Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link, Seanan McGuire…
and Sofia Samatar. In Cat Rambo's "Tortoiseshell Cats are Not Refundable," a widower clones his dead wife. Strong language and some violence. 2015By Shirley Jackson, Laurence Hyman, Sarah Hyman DeWitt. 2015
Since her death in 1965, Shirley Jackson's reputation as a master of creepy short stories has only grown. Stories featuring…
her signature eerie style, as well as essays about writing and her family, make up the fifty-six entries in this collection, most previously unpublished. Some violence. 2015An anthology of sixty-three contemporary short stories from across Latin America. Includes contributions from Ignacio Padilla, Jorge Volpi, Pedro Ángel…
Palou, Cristina Civale, Daína Chaviano, and Daniel Sada. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2001By John Collier. 2003
Collection of fifty short stories by Collier--cruel, ludic, and startling--originally published between 1931 and 1951. In "Great Possibilities," mundane lawyer…
Benjamin Murchison fantasizes about setting houses on fire, and his questions are misconstrued by good friends. With a 2003 introduction by Ray Bradbury. 1951By Sherwood Anderson. 2004
A collection of classic short stories from world literature that explores the theme of the solitude of women. Includes selections…
from Katherine Mansfield, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Nuria Barrios, and Carlos Fuentes. With a prologue by Marcela Serrano. Spanish language. 2002By Doris Lessing. 2014
Nobel Prize winner Lessing spent twenty-five years in Africa, writing about the land and people she loved. This collection, originally…
published in 1964 and long out of print, gathers all of her short stories set on the continent and includes four stories never before anthologized. 1964By Orson Scott Card, John Joseph Adams, Paolo Bacigalupi, George R. Martin, Junot Diaz. 2015
Thirty-one stories of a post-apocalyptic future, almost exclusively written in the twenty-first century. Authors include George R. R. Martin, Hugh…
Howey, Junot Diaz, Ann Aguirre, Cory Doctorow, Nancy Kress, and more. Includes seminal tale "The Postman," by David Brin. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. 2015By Julian Olivares. 1998
Anthology of stories by authors born and raised in the United States, together with those that have immigrated to this…
country. Includes "Naranjas" by Ángela McEwan-Alvarado, "Un poco de todo" by Rolando Hinojosa, and "La tejedora de palabras" by Rima de Vallbona. With questions and composition themes for students. Spanish language. 1993By James Ellroy, Otto Penzler. 2011
Thirty-nine selections of short noir fiction, written between 1923 and 2007, by such authors as Mickey Spillane, Jim Thompson, Patricia…
Highsmith, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tom Franklin. In Elmore Leonard's "When the Women Come Out to Dance," a stripper hires a widow to have her husband murdered. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. 2010By Altaf Tyrewala, Jerry Pinto, Sonia Faleiro, Avtar Singh, Annie Zaidi, Namita Devidayal, Kalpish Ratna, Riyaz Mulla, Paromita Vohra, Devashish Makhija, Abbas Tyrewala, Ahmed Bunglowala, Smita Harish Jain, R. Raj Rao. 2012
The most populous city in India--previously known as Bombay--is the setting for this anthology of fourteen crime stories. In "Justice,"…
Riaz Mulla shows how an ordinary businessman can turn into a bomb-planting extremist. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex. 2012By Achy Obejas, Jordi Sierra i Fabra, Adriana V. López, Carmen Ospina, Teresa Solana, Valerie Miles. 2011
Fourteen crime stories reveal a side of Catalonia's capital never found on walking tours. In Teresa Solana's "The Offering," a…
young doctor at a hospital morgue discovers that a shy, unattractive, hospital secretary who committed suicide has the most beautiful organs. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. 2011By R. Zamora Linmark, Sabina Murray, Jessica Hagedorn, Lysley Tenorio, Eric Gamalinda, F. H. Batacan, Gina Apostol, Jose Dalisay, Rosario Cruz-Lucero, Lourd De Veyra, Angelo R. Lacuesta, Budjette Tan, Kajo Baldisimo, Marianne Villanueva, Jonas Vitman. 2013
Fourteen crime stories set in the intense, teeming capital of the Philippines. In F.H. Batacan's "Comforter of the Afflicted," a…
priest who is helping his cop friend with a murder investigation learns that the female victim helped other women escape domestic violence. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. 2013By F. G. Haghenbeck, Eduardo Antonio Parra, Rolo Diez, Paco Taibo, Bernardo Fernández, Pacio Ignacio Taibo II, Juan Hernández Luna, Eugenio Aguirre, Myriam Laurini, Óscar de la Borbolla, Eduardo Monteverde, Víctor Luiz González, Julia Rodríguez. 2010
Anthology of twelve crime stories set in Mexico's capital is divided into parts: Above the Law, Dead Men Walking, and…
Suffocation City. Editor and contributor Paco Ignacio Taibo II's "The Corner" centers on a novelist's suggestion for dealing with a crime-ridden intersection. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2010By Otto Penzler, Laura Lippman. 2014
Collection of twenty previously published short stories. In Megan Abbott's "My Heart Is Either Broken," a man slowly begins to…
doubt his wife's story of how their toddler went missing. Authors include Russell Banks, Annie Proulx, and James Lee Burke. Violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2014By Sarah Weinman. 2013
Collection of fourteen previously published stories of crime fiction by women from the 1940s to the 1970s. Includes "The Heroine"…
by Patricia Highsmith, author of The Talented Mr. Ripley (DB 50315), where a young woman is hired to be a nanny and dreams of being more. Some violence. 2013By Orson Scott Card, Kelley Armstrong, John Joseph Adams. 2014
Twenty-three weird wild-west tales, featuring an American frontier populated by gunslingers, rattlesnakes, outlaws, zombies, aliens, time-travelers, and a steampunk bordello.…
Includes works by Orson Scott Card, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, Beth Revis, Walter Jon Williams, and more. Some violence and some strong language. 2014By Marina Keegan. 2014
Collection of essays and short stories by Keegan (1989-2012), who was killed in a car accident five days after her…
college graduation. In the title essay--which appeared in the graduation issue of the Yale Daily News--she reflects on the bright future awaiting the graduates. Bestseller. 2014By Gardner Dozois, Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, Patrick Rothfuss, Gillian Flynn. 2014
Twenty-one rogue-themed short stories that span several genres, highlighting work by Joe Abercrombie, Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale, Cherie Priest,…
Carrie Vaughn, and others. Includes a new Game of Thrones tale by George R.R. Martin. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2014By Edwidge Danticat, Madison Smartt Bell, Mark Kurlansky, Katia D. Ulysse, Évelyne Trouillot, Rodney Saint-Éloi, Yanick Lahens, Gary Victor, Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Ibi Aanu Zoboi, Marie Lily Cerat, M. J. Fievre, Josaphat-Robert Large, Nadine Pinede, Patrick Sylvain, Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel, Marvin Victor. 2011
Edwidge Danticat is both editor and contributor in this anthology of eighteen stories written around the time of Haiti's devastating…
2010 earthquake. In Ibi Aanu Zoboi's "The Harem" a playboy tends to his three lovers amid the destruction. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2011