He maintains his innocence over the decades he spends at Shawshank during which time he forms a friendship with "Red", a fellow inmate.Source: stephenking.com

    Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption--the most satisfying tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape since The Count of Monte Cristo.Apt Pupil--a golden California schoolboy and an old man whose hideous past he uncovers enter into a fateful and chilling mutual parasitism.The Body--four rambunctious young boys venture into the Maine woods and in sunlight and thunder find life, death, and intimations of their own mortality.The Breathing Method--a tale told in a strange club about a woman determined to give birth no matter what.source: stephenking.com

    Daneel Olivaw] • (1972) • short story by Isaac Asimov 231 • The Tercentenary Incident • (1976) • short story by Isaac Asimov 253 • First Law • [Mike Donovan] • (1956) • short story by Isaac Asimov 257 • Runaround • [Mike Donovan] • (1942) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 280 • Reason • [Mike Donovan] • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov 302 • Catch That Rabbit • [Mike Donovan] • (1944) • short story by Isaac Asimov 329 • Liar! • [Susan Calvin] • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov 350 • Satisfaction Guaranteed • [Susan Calvin] • (1951) • short story by Isaac Asimov 368 • Lenny • [Susan Calvin] • (1958) • short story by Isaac Asimov 385 • Galley Slave • [Susan Calvin] • (1957) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 427 • Little Lost Robot • [Susan Calvin] • (1947) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 459 • Risk • [Susan Calvin] • (1955) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 490 • Escape! • [Susan Calvin] • (1945) • short story by Isaac Asimov 518 • Evidence • [Susan Calvin] • (1946) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 546 • The Evitable Conflict • [Susan Calvin] • (1950) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 575 • Feminine Intuition • [Susan Calvin] • (1969) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 605 • ... That Thou Art Mindful of Him • (1974) • novelette by Isaac Asimov (variant of —That Thou Art Mindful of Him!) 635 • The Bicentennial Man • (1976) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 683 • A Last Word • (1982) • essay by Isaac Asimov THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the ultimate collection of timeless, amazing and amusing robot stories from the greatest science fiction writer of all time, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were programmed into real computers thirty years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - with surprising results. Readers of today still have many surprises in store...

    They include supernatural tales, slices of life from Warsaw and the shtetls of Eastern Europe, and stories of the Jews displaced from that world to the New World, from the East Side of New York to California and Miami.

    Dick was a master of science fiction, but he was also a writer whose work transcended genre to examine the nature of reality and what it means to be human. A writer of great complexity and subtle humor, his work belongs on the shelf of great twentieth-century literature, next to Kafka and Vonnegut. Collected here are twenty-one of Dick's most dazzling and resonant stories, which span his entire career and show a world-class writer working at the peak of his powers.In "The Days of Perky Pat," people spend their time playing with dolls who manage to live an idyllic life no longer available to the Earth's real inhabitants. "Adjustment Team" looks at the fate of a man who by mistake has stepped out of his own time. In "Autofac," one community must battle benign machines to take back control of their lives. And in "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon," we follow the story of one man whose very reality may be nothing more than a nightmare. The collection also includes such classic stories as "The Minority Report," the basis for the Steven Spielberg movie, and "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," the basis for the film Total Recall. Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick is a magnificent distillation of one of American literature's most searching imaginations.» Introduction by Jonathan Lethem1. Beyond Lies the Wub (wikipedia)2. Roog (wikipedia)3. Paycheck (wikipedia, imdb)4. Second Variety (wikipedia, imdb)5. Imposter (wikipedia)6. The King of the Elves (wikipedia, imdb)7. Adjustment Team (wikipedia, imdb)8. Foster, You're Dead! (wikipedia)9. Upon the Dull Earth (wikipedia)10. Autofac (wikipedia)11. The Minority Report (wikipedia, imdb)12. The Days of Perky Pat (wikipedia)13. Precious Artifact14. A Game of Unchance15. We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (wikipedia, imdb)16. Faith of Our Fathers (wikipedia)17. The Electric Ant (wikipedia)18. A Little Something for Us Tempunauts (wikipedia)19. The Exit Door Leads In (wikipedia)20. Rautavaara's Case (wikipedia)21. I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (wikipedia)

    Vulnerable and resilient, openhanded and open-hearted, these women forge their lives in a place that in turn threatens and protects—a common prison and a shared home. Naylor renders both loving and painful human experiences with simple eloquence and uncommon intuition. Her remarkable sense of community and history makes The Women of Brewster Place a contemporary classic—and a touching and unforgettable read.

    It was first published in Strand Magazine in December 1893. It appears in book form as part of the collection The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle later ranked "The Final Problem" fourth on his personal list of the twelve best Holmes stories.

    Stories deal with a young divorcee, a shared summer home, a troubled family, a wedding, childhood fears, the death of a pet, a lying child, and enlightenment.

    Everything is included from his three books of stories, Twice-told Tales (1837, revised 1851), Mosses from an Old Manse (1846, 1854), The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-told Tales (1851) and from his two books of stories for children based on classical myths, A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (1852) and Tanglewood Tales (1853)—along with sixteen stories not found in any of these volumes.The stories are arranged, as they never have been in any other edition, in the order of their periodical publication. Readers of Hawthorne will thereby get a unique sense of how he became one of the most powerful and experimental writers of American fiction.

    Shepard chronicles his own life birth in Illinois, childhood memories of Guam, Pasadena and rural Southern California, adventures as ranch hand, waiter, rock musician, dramatist, and film actor. Scenes from this book form the basis of his play Superstitions, and of the film (directed by Wim Wenders) Paris, Texas, winner of the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.

    - The Great Automatic Grammatizator- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat- The Butler- Man from the South- The Landlady- Parson’s Pleasure- The Umbrella Man- Katina- The Way Up to Heaven- Royal Jelly- Vengeance Is Mine Inc.- Taste- Neck

    (1957)The 3 Most Important Things in Life (Scenes from the Real World #1) (1978) • essayVisionary (1959) / Harlan Ellison and Joe L. HensleyDjinn, No Chaser (1982)Invasion Footnote (1957)Saturn, November 11th (Scenes from the Real World #2) (1981) • essayNight of Black Glass (1981)Final Trophy (1957)!!!The!!Teddy!Crazy!!Show!!! (1968)The Cheese Stands Alone (1982)Somehow, I Don't Think We're in Kansas, Toto (Scenes from the Real World #3) (1974) • essayTranscending Destiny (1957)The Hour That Stretches (1982)The Day I Died (1973) • essayTracking Level (1956)Tiny Ally (1957)The Goddess in the Ice (1967)Gopher in the Gilly (Scenes from the Real World #4) (1982) • essay

    Arranged geographically by region, this book also includes category index groups that list the stories by plot and character.

    The Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets of the Drones Club tell all, in 21 stories as lively as a Boat Race Night party.

    Vanderhaeghe has the uncanny ability to show us the world through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy as convincingly as he reveals it through the eyes of an old man approaching senility. Moving from the hilarious farce of teenage romance all the way to the numbing tragedy of life in a ward for incurables, these twelve stories inspire belief, admiration, and enjoyment, and come together to form a vibrant chronicle of human experience from a gifted observer of life's joys and tribulations. This is Guy Vanderhaeghe's brilliant first book of fiction.

    From that seminal experience emerged these gripping, inimitable wilderness tales, which have endured as some of London’s best and most defining work. With remarkable insight and unflinching realism, London describes the punishing adversity that awaited men in the brutal, frozen expanses of the Yukon, and the extreme tactics these adventurers and travelers adopted to survive.This edition features twenty-three carefully chosen stories from London’s three collected Northland volumes and his later Klondike tales. It also includes two maps of the region, and notes on the text.

    One of the most memorable is "The Death of a Government Clerk, " a glorious parody in which a fawning official is undone by an ill-timed sneeze. "On the Road, " the history of an educated man's search for convictions, is one of Chekhov's finest dramatic stories and the source of his first full-length play, Ivanov. And in "The Steppe, " which marked a turning point in Chekhov's career, a boy's picaresque journey across the Russian heartland evokes the soul of Russia itself.

    Sebald; an amalgam, as Susan Sontag suggests in her preface to this volume, of Stevie Smith and Samuel Beckett.This collection gathers forty-two of Walser's stories. Encompassing everything from journal entries, notes on literature, and biographical sketches to anecdotes, fables, and visions, it is an ideal introduction to this fascinating writer of whom Hermann Hesse famously declared, "If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place."Response to a RequestFlower DaysTrousersTwo Strange StoriesBalloon JourneyKleist in ThumThe Job ApplicationThe BoatA Little RambleHelbling's StoryThe Little BerlinerNervousThe WalkSo! "I've Got You"Nothing at AllKienastPoestsFrau WilkeThe StreetSnowdropsWinterThe She-OwlKnockingTitusVladimirParisian NewspapersThe MonkeyDostoevsky's IdiotAm I Dreaming?The Little TreeStork and PorcupineA Contribution to the Celebration of Conrad Ferdinand MeyerA Sort of SpeechA Letter to Therese BreitbachA Village TaleThe AviatorThe PimpMasters and WorkersEssay on FreedomA Biedermeier StoryThe HoneymoonThoughts on Cezanne

    Not all companions are friendly. There are many that you most definitely do not want to see. When Elaine was working late at the office, she thought she was all alone. But something sinister was in the elevator shaft…working its way to her floor. Miles, too, thought he was alone in his new house, the house of a murderer, but he, too, had an unwanted companion. And Knox will never forget what was waiting for him in the dense fog. Come and meet all of these companions and more in this chilling collection of horror tales by award-winning master of terror Ramsey Campbell. That clawing sound you hear, the haunting singing, the moving shadow—they all mean that something is waiting to make your acquaintance. Contains “The Companion”, the story Stephen King called “one of the three finest horror stories I have ever read”. [cover art by Jill Bauman]

    It is appropriate that it gives its title to these tales ranging from horror and the supernatural to science fiction, from the writer who has been justly termed "Princess Royal of Heroic Fantasy."Here you will find unforgettable encounters of men and beasts - of dragons and unicorns, cats and seals, virgins and vampires. This is truly a feast of treasures for everyone whose taste runs to a gourmet imagination.

    Grant, and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew.This is a graphic adaptation of the short story, adapted and illustrated by Max Miller.

    Sherlock Holmes strives to destroy Professor Moriarty who is at the bottom of half the evil in London while the criminal genius vows the same for the detective.

    Gluck achieves the difficult art of integrating unabashed (gay) erotic writing into an intelligent non-pornographic narrative."-Ian Young

    In Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason introduces us to her western Kentucky people and the lives they forge for themselves amid the ups and downs of contemporary American life, and she poignantly captures the growing pains of the New South in the lives of her characters as they come to terms with feminism, R-rated movies, and video games. "Bobbie Ann Mason is one of those rare writers who, by concentrating their attention on a few square miles of native turf, are able to open up new and surprisingly wide worlds for the delighted reader," said Robert Towers in The New York Review of Books.

    first published in The Compass Rose, 1982

    

    Contents 7 • Publisher's Note • (1982) • essay by Anonymous 9 • Introduction (The Best Short Stories of Fredric Brown) • (1951) • essay by Fredric Brown (variant of Introduction (Space on My Hands)) 11 • Something Green • (1951) • short story by Fredric Brown 22 • Crisis, 1999 • (1949) • short story by Fredric Brown 42 • Pi in the Sky • (1945) • novelette by Fredric Brown 75 • Knock • (1948) • short story by Fredric Brown 88 • All Good BEMs • (1949) • short story by Fredric Brown 101 • Daymare • (1943) • novelette by Fredric Brown 150 • Nothing Sirius • (1944) • short story by Fredric Brown 171 • Star Mouse • [Mitkey • 1] • (1942) • novelette by Fredric Brown (variant of The Star Mouse) 196 • Come and Go Mad • (1949) • novelette by Fredric Brown 245 • Nasty • (1959) • short story by Fredric Brown 248 • Abominable • (1960) • short story by Fredric Brown 252 • Rebound • (1960) • short story by Fredric Brown 255 • Nightmare in Gray • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 257 • Nightmare in Green • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 259 • Nightmare in White • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 261 • Nightmare in Blue • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 264 • Nightmare in Yellow • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 267 • Nightmare in Red • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 269 • Unfortunately • (1958) • short story by Fredric Brown 271 • Granny's Birthday • (1960) • short story by Fredric Brown 274 • Cat Burglar • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 276 • The House • (1960) • short story by Fredric Brown 280 • Second Chance • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 283 • Great Lost Discoveries I - Invisibility • [Great Lost Discoveries • 1] • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 286 • Great Lost Discoveries II - Invulnerability • [Great Lost Discoveries • 2] • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 288 • Great Lost Discoveries III - Immortality • [Great Lost Discoveries • 3] • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 290 • Dead Letter • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 292 • Recessional • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 295 • Hobbyist • non-genre • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 298 • The Ring of Hans Carvel • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 300 • Vengeance Fleet • (1950) • short story by Fredric Brown (variant of Vengeance, Unlimited) 304 • Rope Trick • (1959) • short story by Fredric Brown 306 • Fatal Error • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 308 • The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver I • [The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver • 1] • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 310 • The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver II • [The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver • 2] • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 312 • The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver III • [The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver • 3] • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 315 • Expedition • (1956) • short story by Fredric Brown 318 • Bright Beard • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 320 • Jaycee • (1955) • short story by Fredric Brown 322 • Contact • (1960) • short story by Fredric Brown (variant of Earthmen Bearing Gifts) 325 • Horse Race • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 328 • Death on the Mountain • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 332 • Bear Possibility • (1960) • short story by Fredric Brown 335 • Not Yet the End • (1941) • short story by Fredric Brown 339 • Fish Story • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 342 • Three Little Owls (A Fable) • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown 345 • Runaround • (1942) • short story by Fredric Brown 351 • Murder in Ten Easy Lessons • (1945) • short story by Fredric Brown 361 • Dark Interlude • (1951) • short story by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds 371 • Entity Trap • (1950) • short story by Fredric Brown (variant of From These Ashes ...) 389 • The Little Lamb • (1953) • short story by Fredric Brown 404 • Me and Flapjack and the Martians • (1952) • short story by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds 414 • The Joke • (1948) • short story by Fredric Brown 425 • Cartoonist • (1951) • short story by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds 435 • The Geezenstacks • (1943) • short story by Fredric Brown 447 • The End • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown

    Among the stories you'll find; The Double Shadow, The Death of Malygris, The Ice Demon, The Devotee of Evil and many many more.Contents:IntroductionThe Double ShadowThe Last IncantationThe Death of MalygrisSeedling of MarsThe Ice-DemonUbbo-SathlaThe Plutonian DrugThe Colossus of YlourgneThe Holiness of AzedaracThe End of the StoryThe Vaults of Yoh-VombisThe Devotee of EvilThe Root of AmpoiGenius Loci

    A collection of short stories with writing about Randall Garrett by: Philip Jose Farmer; Marion Zimmer Bradley; Isaac Asimov; Poul Anderson; Larry Niven; Ben Bova; Norman Spinrad; Frank Herbert; Anne McCaffrey; Harry Harrison; and Gordon R. Dickson. Contents:The Hunting Lodge (1954)The Waiting Game (1951)Isaac Asimov's The Caves of Steel: A Review in Verse (1956)Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man: A Review in Verse (1956)Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions: A Calypso in Search of a Rhyme (1978)No Connections (1958)The Best Policy (1957)Time Fuze (1954)A Little Intelligence (1958) by Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett [as by Robert Randall]The Eyes Have It (1964)The Spell of War (1978)Frost and Thunder (1979)

    The stories in this impressive collection have been chosen for the challenge they offer the reader and the variety of language used.

    

    Each book in the series has been designed with today's young reader in mind. As the words come to life, students will develop a lasting appreciation for great literature.The humor of Mark Twain...the suspense of Edgar Allan Poe...the danger of Jack London...the sensitivity of Katherine Mansfield. Creative Short Stories has it all and will prove to be a welcome addition to any library.

    Rabbits / Kanai Mieko -- Fuji / Sono Ayako -- A bond for two lifetimes-gleani / Enchi Fumiko -- A mother's love / Okamoto Kanoko -- Crabs / Kono Taeko -- Happiness / Uno Chiyo.

    The Five-Storied Pagoda, one of Koda's best-known works, is the moving account of a misunderstood carpenter who has been inspired to undertake the construction of a pagoda by himself. It is not merely a story of individualism, however, for the religious implications of such a task are profound.Encounter with a Skull concerns a fortuitous meeting of two souls not necessarily ordained by karma. The multiple processes of enlightenment are perceptively depicted in this eerie tale.The last story, The Bearded Samurai, is an historical novella whose setting is the sixteenth-century battle of Nagashino between the forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu and those of Takeda Katsuyori. Here, the human side of the warrior and a realistic view of the samurai are delineated.Such stories, in addition to the essays and notes by the translator, will prove of interest to the general reader and especially to the reader already familiar with Japanese literature.

       Her second collection reveals her ability to feelingly project whole lives in the space of a few pages. Here are people trying to pull free of the constraints of family bonds, people bewitched by capricious love, people conquering old panics, or changing in profound ways.   Included are “Snow,” “Legends,”  “Lost Luggage,”  “An Unscheduled Stop, “At First Sight.”

    This book is a cycle of stories, twelve in all, about famous Russian poets, writers and composers: Archpriest Avvakum, who was burnt at the stake for the Old Faith in the 17th century; Vassily Trediakovsky, the much abused and ridiculed 18th century poet, the reformer of Russian prosody: Alexander Pushkin, the genius of Russian poetry; his school-friend the poet Anton Delwig; the lyric poets Fyodor Tyutchey and Innokenty Annensky; the outstanding writers Nikolai Leskov and Ivan Bunin; and the classics of Russian music, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Scriabin.Though just an episode or a chapter from the life of these people, each story contains a life - like, psychologically convincing portrait of a creative personality.

    Contains:* The Old Woman and her Pig* The Giraffe Who Saw to the End of the World * Lizard Comes Down from the North* Anansi and Common Sense* Dick Whittington and his Cat* The Little Red Hen and the Fox* The Rats' Daughter * A Journey to the Sea* Jerome, the Lion and the Donkey* The Tinder Box* Country Mouse and Town Mouse* Elephant and Rabbit* The Fox and the Crow* The Baker's Cat* Henny Penny* The Fisherman's Son* The Ossopit Tree* The Lion and the Mouse* The Dragon and the Monkey* Brer Rabbit Gets Himself a House* Puss-in-Boots* A Lion in the Meadow* The Black Bull of Norroway* How the Whale Became* The Travelling Musicians* The Little House* Pegasus the Winged Horse* Sam Pig and the Wind* The Little Jackal and the Crocodile* The Great Flood

    Twenty astonishing stories from acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin that carry us to worlds of wonder and horror, desire and destiny, enchantment and doom.

    new books, philosophy books, Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialism

    

    A cycle of thirteen tenderly evocative stories written while Mu Xin was living in exile, this collection is reminiscent of the structural beauty of Hemingway’s In Our Time and the imagistic power of Kawabata’s palm-of-the-hand stories. From the ordinary (a bus accident) to the unusual (Buddhist halos) to the wise (Goethe, Lao Zi), Mu Xin’s wandering “I” interweaves plots with philosophical grace and spiritual profundity. A small blue bowl becomes a symbol of vanishing childhood; a painter in a race against fading memory scribblesnotes in an underground prison during the Cultural Revolution; an abandoned temple room holds a dark mystery. An Empty Room is a soul-stirring page turner, a Sebaldian reverie of passing time, loss, and humanity regained.

    

    Fowler WrightProne, by Mack ReynoldsBarney, by Will StantonLost Love, by Algis Budrys

    A cool observer, without prejudice or excitement Tafur noted the symptoms of decay.' Sunday Times. This edition, translated and edited by Malcolm Letts, was the first complete translation of Tafur in any language.

    Translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles. Mohammed Mrabet's THE CHEST is a book of nine stories and a play that channel the enduring spirit of Islam. Mrabet has written two novels and has published seven books of short stories. Flavored by his native Morocco, Mrabi's stories assume the functioning of magic within the running of daily life.

    Nelson plays truant and sees something he wishes he hadn't in the title story, 'A Time to Dance'. In Phonefun Limited Sadie and Agnes, retired prostitutes hit upon an inventive new way of making someone happy with a phone call, while in ‘My Dear Palestrina' a remarkable music teacher initiates her pupil into the mysteries of art and maturity.

    Short stories depicting the encounters of the humorist, Ker-Orr, with strange characters present a satirical view of society.

    

    Now in these superb stories of the magical denizens of the sea, distinguished poet and storyteller Jane Yolen has taken themes from ancient myth, medieval romance, nineteenth-century fairytale and modern science fiction and woven them into original contemporary fantasies of compelling beauty and fascination.In one, a loving wife rescues her husband from the deadly enchantment of a sea goddess; in another, a woman encounters Proteus on a New England seacoast; in a third, deep-sea magic lures a tourist from an antique shop in a back alley of London to the bottom of the Indian Ocean and a terrifying confrontation with an evil mer creature.

    

    

    

    He has been a full time professional writer since 1969, publishing more than fifty novels and six collections of short stories

    

    

    Stories by Spalding Gray. All photographs are portraits of circus and sideshow acts and freaks. All reproduced in black & white.