--No particular night or morning --The city --The fire balloons --The last night of the world --The veldt --The long rain --The great fire --The wilderness --A sound of thunder --The murderer --The April witch --Invisible boy --The golden kite, the silver wind --The fog horn --The black black and white game --Embroidery --The golden apples of the sun --Powerhouse --Hail and farewell --The great wide world over there --The playground --Skeleton --The man upstairs --Touched with fire --The emissary --The jar --The small assasin --The next in line --Jack-in-the-box --The leave-taking --Exorcism --The happiness machine --Calling Mexico --The wonderful ice cream suit --Dark they were, and golden-eyed --The strawberry window --A scent of sarsaparilla --The Picasso summer --The day it rained forever --A medicine for melancholy --The shoreline at sunset --Fever dream --The town where no one got off --All summer in a day --Frost and fire --The anthem sprinters --And so died Riabouchinska --Boys! Raise giant mushrooms in your cellar! --The vacation --The illustrated woman --Some live like Lazarus --The best of all possible worlds --The one who waits --Tyrannosaurus Rex --The screaming woman --The terrible conflagration up at the place --Night call, collect --The tombling day --The haunting of the new --Tomorrow's child --I sing the body electric! --The women --The inspired chicken motel --Yes, we'll gather at the river --Have I got a chocolate bar for you! --A story of love --The parrot who met Papa --The October game --Punishment without crime --A piece of wood --The blue bottle --Long after midnight --The utterly perfect murder --The better part of wisdom --Interval in sunlight --The black ferris --Farewell summer --McGillahee's brat --The aqueduct --Gotcha! --The end of the beginning.

    It is the prettiest umbrella in the whole village and she carries it everywhere she goes. The Blue Umbrella is a short and humorous novella set in the hills of Garhwal. Written in simple yet witty language, it captures life in a village - where ordinary characters become heroic, and others find opportunities to redeem themselves.

      Including the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected ones, these forty-one stories demonstrate Eudora Welty's talent for writing from diverse points-of-view with “vision that is sweet by nature, always humanizing, uncannily objective, but never angry” (Washington Post).A curtain of green and other stories.Lily Daw and the three ladies --A piece of news --Petrified man --The key --Keela, the outcast Indian maiden --Why I live at the P.O. --The whistle --The hitch-hikers --A memory --Clytie --Old Mr. Marblehall --Flowers for Marjorie --A curtain of green --A visit of charity --Death of a traveling salesman --Powerhouse --A worn path --The wide net and other stories.First love --The wide net --A still moment --Asphodel --The winds --The purple hat --Livvie --At the landing --The golden apples.Shower of gold --June recital --Sir Rabbit --Moon Lake --The whole world knows --Music from Spain --The wanderers --The bride of the Innisfallen and other stories.No place for you, my love --The burning --The bride of the Innisfallen --Ladies in spring --Circe --Kin --Going to Naples --Uncollected stories.Where is the voice coming from? --The demonstrators.

    London enjoyed phenomenal popularity in his own time (which included the depressions of the 1890s and the beginnings of World War One), and he remains one of the most widely read of all American writers.

    Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chilling insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to justice. Also in this volume are six short stories and seven ‘conversational portraits’ including a touching one of Marilyn Monroe, the ‘beautiful child’ and a hilarious one of a dope-smoking cleaning lady doing her rounds in New York.

    Capote is a master at creating settings and conjuring up personalities. The central story, a novella entitled Handcarved Coffins, follows the same guidelines as In Cold Blood yet is even more terrifying and haunting.

    A short follow-up to 'The Last Question' by Asimov.

    In this, the first volume of Ray Bradbury's short stories, some of the author's finest works are published together, among them 'Homecoming', 'Veldt', 'A Sound of Thunder' and 'The Long Rain'. Join an ill-fated crew of astronauts pushed to the brink of insanity by the incessant and highly corrosive rain on Venus, a high-tech virtual reality playroom that comes to life with terrible consequences, and a safari company offering tours for the wealthy back in time to the prehistoric era to stalk and kill dinosaurs, resulting in the present they return to being irrevocably altered. This collection is a rare treasure trove of wonder; as apprehensive about technology and the fate of humanity as it is elegiaic of its irrepressible progress. Each story presents an enlightening and poetic facet of Bradbury's writing, every one as relevant now as when it was first written.

    The stories within are mined with depth charges, explosions of meaning and illumination that will keep you thinking and feeling long after you have finished reading.Contents11 • The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories • [Archipelago] • (1970) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe26 • Alien Stones • (1972) • novelette by Gene Wolfe55 • La Befana • (1973) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe60 • The Hero as Werwolf • (1975) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe74 • Three Fingers • (1976) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe80 • The Death of Dr. Island • [Archipelago] • (1973) • novella by Gene Wolfe131 • Feather Tigers • (1973) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe138 • Hour of Trust • (1973) • novelette by Gene Wolfe167 • Tracking Song • (1975) • novella by Gene Wolfe225 • The Toy Theater • (1971) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe232 • The Doctor of Death Island • [Archipelago] • (1978) • novella by Gene Wolfe277 • Cues • (1974) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe281 • The Eyeflash Miracles • (1976) • novella by Gene Wolfe336 • Seven American Nights • (1978) • novella by Gene Wolfe

    E. D. KleinThe Detective of Dreams by Gene WolfeVengeance Is. By Theodore SturgeonThe Brood by Ramsey CampbellThe Whistling Well by Clifford D. SimakThe Peculiar Demesne by Russell KirkWhere the Stones Grow by Lisa TuttleThe Night Before Christmas by Robert BlochThe Stupid Joke by Edward GoreyA Touch of Petulance by Ray BradburyLindsay and the Red City Blues by Joe HaldemanA Garden of Blackred Roses by Charles L. GrantOwls Hoot in the Daytime by Manly Wade WellmanWhere There’s a Will by Richard Matheson and Richard Christian MathesonTraps by Gahan WilsonThe Mist by Stephen King

    A collection of stories focuses on contemporary Native American concerns--white injustice, the fragmenting of the Indian community, and the loss of tribal identity--and recalls Indian legends and tribal stories.

    Ruskin Bond not only brings to life a town in northern India capturing the scenery, the people, the atmosphere - but also shows that children are the same the world over.

    Other stories including Killings, a swift and wholly successful tale of revenge; Townies, about a young man whose affair with an undergraduate girl ends in deadly fury; At Saint Croix, the story of a man and woman, both divorced, whose Caribbean spring vacation fails to exorcise his ghosts; The Pitcher, where a baseball player can manage his arm but not his wife; and The Winter Father, a story of overwhelming tenderness dealing with a divorced father and his weekend attempts to re-establish contact with his two children. Subtle and haunting, Dubus concentrates his Chekhovian attention on the residual anguish and momentary elation of deep attachments. Nothing in current American writing seems more genuine than this writer's fictions.

    Transformed through the wide eyes of Dybek's adolescent heroes, these grimy urban backwaters become exotic landscapes of fear-filled possibility, of dreams not yet turned to nightmares. Chronicling what happens when Old World faith meets the dark side of the American dream, Dybek's poignant stories of coming of age in Chicago alternately appall, amaze, and just simply entertain.

    Amazing and creative pieces of imagination and wonder from an articulate and very human science fiction writer. On the Moon, they're altering bodies so everyone can look exactly alike; they're turning Pluto into an amusement park; a cult of zealots is painting the second ring of Saturn red; a man is enjoying his second childhood; there's a living black hole; and on Earth, they're reading...Contents: Bagatelle [Anna-Louise Bach] (1976) / novelette by John Varley · Galaxy Oct ’76 The Funhouse Effect [Eight Worlds] (1976) / novelette by John Varley · F&SF Dec ’76 The Barbie Murders [Anna-Louise Bach] (1978) / novelette by John Varley · IASFM Jan/Feb ’78 Equinoctial [Eight Worlds] (1977) / novella by John Varley · Ascents of Wonder, ed. David Gerrold, Popular Library, 1977 Manikins (1976) / short story by John Varley · Amazing Jan ’76 Beatnik Bayou [Eight Worlds] (1980) / novelette by John Varley · New Voices III, ed. George R. R. Martin, Berkley, 1980 Good-Bye, Robinson Crusoe [Eight Worlds] (1977) / novelette by John Varley · IASFM Spr ’77 Lollipop and the Tar Baby [Eight Worlds] (1977) / novelette by John Varley · Orbit 19, ed. Damon Knight, Harper & Row, 1977 Picnic on Nearside [Eight Worlds] (1974) / novelette by John Varley · F&SF Aug ’74.

    A collection of short stories by a world-renowned naturalist and author of My Family and Other Animals introduces an eccentric cast of characters including a prize-truffling pig in France and an aging Memphis belle.

    Over the next two decades, he returned to these characters again and again, tracing their years together raising children, finding moments of intermittent happiness, and facing the heartbreak of infidelity and estrangement. Seventeen Maples stories were collected in 1979 in a paperback edition titled Too Far to Go, prompted by a television adaptation. Now those stories appear in hardcover for the first time, with the addition of a later story, “Grandparenting,” which returns us to the Maples’s lives long after their wrenching divorce.

    Includes:Man from the South, Lamb to the Slaughter, The Landlady, The champion of the World, Galloping Foxley, Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat, The Ratcatcher and The Hitchhiker.

    The writers include Ed McBain, whose "Sadie When She Died" features a strange cat-and-mouse game between a sharp detective and the husband of a murdered woman whom the police suspect of having committed the crime. Other tales come from Donald E. Westlake, Bill Pronzini, Patricia Highsmith, Henry Slezar, and Richard M. Ellis.

    Introduction.--Ender's game.--Kingsmeat.--Deep breathingexercises.--Closing the timelid.--I put my blue genes on.--Eumenidesin the fourth floor lavatory.--Mortal gods.--Quietus.--The monkeysthought 'twas all in fun.--The porcelain salamander.--Unaccompaniedsonata.--Afterword: On origins.

    Even old fans will find surprises in this collection. For instance, how many devotees have read Passion Play, Zelazny s first published work, and how many are familiar with He Who Shapes, the foundation of his classic novel The Dream Master?ContentsPassion PlayHorseman!The Stainless Steel LeechA Thing of Terrible BeautyHe Who ShapesComes Now the PowerAuto-Da-Fe'Damnation alleyFor a Breath I TarryThe Engine at Heartspring's CenterThe Game of Blood and DustNo AwardIs There a Demon Lover in the House?The Last Defender of CamelotStand Pat, Ruby StoneHalfjack

    

    These thrilling and sometimes frightening visions of the future include:• "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov• "Who's There?" by Arthur C. Clarke• "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

    This richly entertaining and comprehensive collection presents sixty-five of the very best of Mark Twain’s short pieces, from the classic frontier sketch “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” to the richly imaginative fable “Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.” Compiled by Pulitzer Prize–winning Twain scholar and biographer, Justin Kaplan, this collection represents some of Mark Twain’s wittiest and most insightful writing.

    Beetles, mice and birds all help Orfeo to free the princess from the Rose Tower.

    Edited by one of the most prominentexperts in the field, the third edition addresses the needs of a changing readership by presenting more works by women, writers of color, and contemporary authors, including Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Zora Neale Hurston, Robert Stone, Raymond Carver, Alice Walker, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Louise Erdrich. Preceding each section is an introductory essay discussing individual works and the development of the genre, and biographical and bibliographical notes for each author are also provided. American Short Stories, 3/e is the definitive source for exploring the full range ofAmerican contributions to the short story.

    Readers of his previous work will find in 14 Stories that same wry, inventive, knife-edged humor that has come to characterize his distinctive style. With an adroit use of language and a keen eye for the quirky, offbeat side of human nature, Dixon creates a world as viewed through a fish-eye lens–slightly distorted and off-center, yet recognizable and often familiar.14 Stories is part comedy, part tragedy, part social comment and part spoof. But most of all it is a highly entertaining series of all-too-plausible vignettes that shows off Stephen Dixon's remarkable talent at its best.

    Full-color pictures throughout.

    A mother and daughter meet a gentlemanly old man on a street corner, who offers them a beautiful silk umbrella in exchange for a pound note.

    

    Clarke, Larry Niven, Fritz Leiber, Robert Silverberg, Fredric Brown, Harlan Ellison, Lester del Rey, and Isaac Asimov. Original.

    and Ms. America (1975)The Paradise Problem (1975)Empty Promise (1975)What Changed Doyster's Mind (1975)Assessment (1975)Handout (1975)Pax Gurney (1975)Art News (1975)A Fable (1975)Utopia: A Financial Report (1975)Luck (1975)Utopiary (1975)A Picnic (1975)Space Shoes of the Gods (1974)The Purloined Butter...*dg*r *ll*n P** (1972)Pemberlеy's Start-Afresh Calliope or, The New Proteus...H. G. W*lls (1971)Ralph 4F...H*g* G*rnsb*ck (Hugogre N. Backs) (1973)Engineer to the Gods...R*b*rt H**nl**n (Hitler I. E. Bonner) (1972)Broot Force...*s**c *s*m*v (Iclick As-I-Move) (1972)Joy Ride...R*y Br*db*ry (Barry DuBray) (1972)The Moon Is Sixpence...*rth*r C. Cl*rk* (Carl Truhacker) (1981)Solar Shoe-Salesman...Ph*l*p K. D*ck (Chipdip K. Kill) (1973)One Damned Thing after Another...C*rdw**n*r Sm*th (A Co-ordainer's Myth) (1973)The Sublimation World...J. G. B*ll*rd (J. G. B-) (1968)

    His works have the power to move us in such a way that we are enthralled by his insights on life, the struggles between man and nature, and the thrills of exploration. An adventurous man himself, he has traveled a great deal on various ships and on numerous sailing trips. Many of his stories are based upon and drawn from his own remarkable experiences. Before he was known as a writer, Jack London was famous for his personal exploits. Jack London: Stories of Adventure features The Game in its entirety and 46 other dramatic short stories with the original illustrations. If you haven't experienced any of Jack London's works, you are in for a treat. You will be surprised at how fast you will become spellbound. Others will find that his stories are even more exciting the second or third time around. For more of his tales of adventure, you can see his other collection of stories in Jack London: Tales of the North.

    The author and her world are brought even more vividly to life with rare photographs and handwritten manuscripts and letters from The New York Public Library's extensive collections.

    A collection of Gibson's short stories explores the personalities of those considered "insane" by those--doctors, psychiatrists, family, friends--who consider themselves "normal," revealing the flashes of pure truth frequently masked by "insanity"

    The first one-volume publication of all of the short stories of Sean O'Faolain.

    All of them. As long as I don't have to see them very often.

    Wollheim)"The Way of Cross and Dragon" (George R. R. Martin)"The Thirteenth Utopia" (Somtow Sucharitkul)]"Options" (John Varley)"Unaccompanied Sonata" (Orson Scott Card)"The Story Writer" (Richard Wilson)"Daisy, in the Sun" (Connie Willis)"The Locusts" (Larry Niven and Steven Barnes)"The Thaw" (Tanith Lee)"Out There Where the Big Ships Go" (Richard Cowper)"Can These Bones Live?" (Ted Reynolds)"The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand" (Joanna Russ)

    L. Child By ChronosLee, W. A Message From CharityScortia, T. N. When You Hear the ToneGalouye, D. F. Share AlikeBanks, R. E. The Littlest PeopleMacDonald, J. D. Ring Around the RedheadSheckley, R. Human Man's BurdenMcKenna, R. Home the Hard WayVinge, J. D. Tim Soldier

    He lived several years ago and he served as a religious teacher, Moslem priest or judge as the occasion demanded. In spite of these exalted duties he was as human as any man. He could be wise and he could be foolish, and he was always able to laugh at himself. Over the years a collection of stories grew up around this man, and today there is scarcely a Turk alive who doesn't know dozens of them by heart. Barbara Walker has put together only a sampling of the hundreds of Hoca tales that exist. She has captured in English the same directness typical of a Turkish storyteller as he relates one of the well-known, well-loved stories of the wisdom or foolishness of Nasreddin Hoca.

    Разказите и повестта, съставляващи настоящия сборник, са взети от следните оригинални издания:The Bastard & the Poor FoolKneel to the Rising SunAmerican EarthSouthwaysWe Are the LivingGulf Coast StoriesWhen You Thing of MeThe Complete Stories of Erskine CaldwellВъведението „Устрем, на който не можеш да кажеш «НЕ»“, е откъс от биографичната книга Call It Experience

    

    Readers new to her work will marvel at the astonishing range and depth that have established Kay Boyle as one of our finest writers.Here are fifty stories, selected by the author, that span five decades of our contemporary history—Paris in the twenties and thirties, France during the military occupation, Germany under Hitler, and a selection of American stories that reach from Atlantic City in the thirties to New York City i the sixties. Pivoting on the Second World War, these stories dramatize the abrupt transformation from the bohemian rebellion of Americans in Paris to the stunned social despair of wartime. Always intensely imaginative, the stories probe the center of our moral and emotional experience.

    These thirteen short stories weave the settings of Barton's life into a mosaic of that Caribbean experience.

    

    Intends to recreate the Galapagos Islands as a paradise poised between destruction and redemption, its inhabitants as varied as an Elizabethan pirate, an expert on the prickly pear, and a baker infatuated with a vanished baroness.

    Limited edition of 275 copies, issued in a plain brown envelopeIssued for the 1980 Vancouver Science Fiction Convention, at which Zelazny was Guest of Honor.

    An chuid is fearr do scéalta Phádraic Ó Conaire, bailithe ag Tomás De Baldraithe atá anseo.This book has 10 of Pádraic Ó Conaire's best short stories.

    

    Short Stories

    CONTENTS The Frog Rider The Wooden Horse Ma Liang and His Magic Brush The Story of Hero Shigar The Third Son and the Magistrate Seeking Her Husband at the Great Wall Olive Lake How the Brothers Divided Their Property Stories About Nasrdin Avanti

    The pages reek with despair at the loss of Native American culture. With an Introduction by Jorge Luis Borges. Craig Strete, one of the few Native American SF authors, picked up three Nebula Award nominations for short SF, two of which are included in this collection of his excellent work. The television, an embodiment of the white man's control of mass culture, declares the Native American is a figment of the past, not of the present. Original authors such as Craig Strete, with distinct and diverse voices, who tackle tough themes such as oppression, the effects of technology, and Native American myth in a literary and experimental manner, are too often neglected in the grand narratives of SF’s past.Contents: Saturday Night at the White Woman Watching Hole (1980) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete All My Statues Have Stone Wings (1980) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete Ten Times Your Fingers and Double Your Toes (1980) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete Piano Bird (1980) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete To See the City Sitting on Its Buildings (1975) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete A Horse of a Different Technicolor (1975) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete Time Deer (1974) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete Where They Put the Staples and Why She Laughed (1980) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete A Place to Die on the Photograph of Your Soul (1980) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete With the Pain It Loves and Hates (1976) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete When They Go Away (1980) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete Who Was the First Oscar to Win a Negro? (1976) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete Every World with a String Attached (1980) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete Why Has the Virgin Mary Never Entered the Wigwam of Standing Bear? (1976) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete Your Cruel Face (1976) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete Just Like Gene Autry: A Foxtrot (1976) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete Old, So Very Old, and in That Wisdom, Ageless (1980) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete When They Find You (1977) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete The Bleeding Man (1974) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete.

    I was so taken in by each tale in this magnificent collection that I found myself gasping out loud.’ Haikugirl‘Surprising and funny. A real page-turner.’ The Journal‘A stunning collection.’ Nihon Distractions 'Colorful, charming, and highly entertaining.' Contemporary Japanese Literature. ‘The real power of this volume to do good in a region still striving to return to normality is its ability to enchant and intrigue — reminding us how much more there is to Tohoku than its recent, very public suffering. This deftly translated, entertaining, yet often poignant volume showcases the region’s rich cultural heritage. It feels like a promise that a community that has survived so much will survive this latest disaster.’ The Japan Times As a young man Inoue lived in Kamaishi, on the coast of North East Japan, an area that was to be devastated by the tsunami of 2011. This book reflects the author’s own experience of Kamaishi, its contemporary history, and the long traditions of story-telling in the region. Ebullient, funny, sad and kind, this is one of the first of Inoue’s books to be available in English. Tales from a Mountain Cave is a translation of Shinshaku Tono Monogatari.

    Retells the stories of Prince Prospero's party to forget the plague, the rich, but ugly Bluebeard, who murdered his wives, and the Gray Thief whose cleverness is his undoing.

    Contains 5 short stories from Asia:The Broken Wing - a Korean taleThe Angry King - a tale from PhilippinesThe Widow's Donkeys - a Chinese folktaleThe Wooden Elephant - a Sri Lankan folktaleThe Vanishing Rice-Straw Coat - a Japanese fairytale