The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Written by Washington Irving
Introduction by Alice Hoffman

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 14, 2001
Price: $8.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75721-1 (0-375-75721-X)

With his beloved Gothic tales, Washington Irving is said to have created the genre of the short story in America. Though Irving crafted many of the most memorable characters in fiction, from Rip Van Winkle to Ichabod Crane, his gifts were not confined to the short story alone. He was also... Read more >

The Sunnier Side and Other Stories

Written by Charles Jackson
Introduction by Blake Bailey

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-94872-4 (0-307-94872-2)

A masterful collection of short stories exposing the seamy undercurrents of small-town American life from Charles Jackson, celebrated author of The Lost Weekend.

A selection of Jackson’s finest tales, The Sunnier Side and Other Stories explores the trials of adolescence in America during the tumultuous years of the early twentieth century. Set... Read more >

The Melancholy of Anatomy
Stories
Written by Shelley Jackson

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 2, 2002
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72120-2 (0-385-72120-X)

Amusing, touching, and unsettling, The Melancholy of Anatomy is that most wonderful of fictions, one that makes us see the world in an entirely new light.

Here is the body turned inside out, its members set free, its humors released upon the world. Hearts bigger than planets devour light and warp the... Read more >

The Turn of the Screw & In the Cage

Written by Henry James
Introduction by Hortense Calisher

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: May 8, 2001
Price: $6.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75740-2 (0-375-75740-6)

This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition brings together one of literature's most famous ghost stories and one of Henry James's most unusual novellas. In The Turn of the Screw, a governess is haunted by ghosts from her young charges past; Virginia Woolf said of this masterpiece of psychological ambiguity and suggestion... Read more >

Aerogrammes

Written by Tania James

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38902-2 (0-307-38902-2)

From the acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns, a bravura collection of short stories—set, by turns, in London, Sierra Leone, and the American Midwest—that captures the yearning and dislocation of young men and women around the world.

In “Light & Luminous,” a gifted instructor of Indian dance falls victim to the vanity... Read more >

Who's Irish?
Stories
Written by Gish Jen

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 13, 2000
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70592-2 (0-375-70592-9)

"Sparkling...a gently satiric look at the American Dream and its fallout on those who pursue it."—The New York Times

With dazzling wit and compassion, Gish Jen—author of the highly acclaimed novels Typical American and Mona in the Promised Land—looks at ambition and compromise at century's end and finds that much of the... Read more >

The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories

Written by Sarah Orne Jewett
Introduction by Suzannah Lessard

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: January 9, 2001
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75671-9 (0-375-75671-X)

The story of an endearing, unlikely friendship set against the backdrop of a remote and beautiful Maine coastal town, The Country of the Pointed Firs is one of Sarah Orne Jewett's most loved works, and it quickly earned her a reputation as a talented writer upon its publication. Praised by Alice... Read more >

Night Shift

Written by Stephen King

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-94729-1 (0-307-94729-7)

King’s first collection of short stories showcases the darkest depths of his brilliant imagination. Here we see mutated rats gone bad (“Graveyard Shift”); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity (“Night Surf,” the basis for The Stand); a possessed, evil lawnmower (“The Lawnmower Man”); unsettling children from the heartland (“Children of the... Read more >

Sam the Cat
and Other Stories
Written by Matthew Klam

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 29, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72661-3 (0-375-72661-6)

Winner of the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship For Writers

"Matthew Klam's Sam The Cat represents the appearance of a new voice in American short fiction of astonishing energy and vitality. From the instant first encounter, Klam's anguished, neurotic, and hysterically funny tales of young lust and ambition—especially pungent in their depiction of masculine... Read more >

Unaccustomed Earth
Stories
Written by Jhumpa Lahiri

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27825-8 (0-307-27825-5)

From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories—longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet written—that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons... Read more >

Slapboxing with Jesus

Written by Victor LaValle

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70590-8 (0-375-70590-2)

Twelve original and interconnected stories in the traditions of Junot Díaz and Sherman Alexie. Victor D. LaValle's astonishing, violent, and funny debut offers harrowing glimpses at the vulnerable lives of young people who struggle not only to come of age, but to survive the city streets.

In "ancient history," two best friends... Read more >

Men and Cartoons

Written by Jonathan Lethem

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7680-2 (1-4000-7680-3)

Jonathan Lethem’s new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new readers—nine fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles, as Lethem samples high and low culture to create fictional worlds that are utterly original. Longtime readers will recognize echoes of... Read more >

Sap Rising

Written by Christine Lincoln

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $11.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72777-1 (0-375-72777-9)

In this spare and mesmerizing debut, Christine Lincoln takes us inside the hearts and minds of African Americans whose lives unfold against a vividly evoked rural community. As they navigate between old and new, between youth and responsibility, they find themselves choosing between the comforts of what they trust without question... Read more >

Two Marriages

Written by Philip Lopate

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-298-2 (1-59051-298-7)

“THE STOIC’S MARRIAGE” IS THE DIARY OF WELL-OFF, idle Gordon, a lifelong student of philosophy who declares, “I have always regarded myself as having a stunted capacity for happiness.” All that changes when the enchanting Rita enters his life as a nurse’s aid sent to care for his dying mother. The... Read more >

Field Notes
The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
Written by Barry Lopez

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7512-6 (1-4000-7512-2)

In this collection of twelve stories, Barry Lopez—the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams and one of our most admired writers—evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past, and with nature.

An anthropologist traveling with an aboriginal people finds that, because of his... Read more >

Light Action in the Caribbean
Stories
Written by Barry Lopez

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 2, 2001
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75448-0 (0-679-75448-2)

Moving from fable and historical fiction to contemporary realism, this book of stories from Barry Lopez is erotic and wise, full of irresistible characters doing things they shouldn't do for reasons that are mysterious and irreducible. In "The Letters of Heaven," a packet of recently discovered 17th-century Peruvian love letters presents... Read more >

Resistance

Written by Barry Lopez

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 14, 2005
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7665-9 (1-4000-7665-X)

From the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams, a highly charged, stunningly original work of fiction—a passionate response to the changes shaping our country today. In nine fictional testimonies, men and women who have resisted the mainstream and who are now suddenly “parties of interest” to the government tell their... Read more >

The Journey Prize Stories 23

Selected by Alexander MacLeod, Alison Pick and Sarah Selecky

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Emblem Editions
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $17.99
ISBN: 978-0-7710-9562-7 (0-7710-9562-7)

For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been presenting the best short stories published each year by some of Canada’s most exciting new writers. Previous contributors -- including such now well-known, bestselling writers as Yann Martel, Elizabeth Hay, Annabel Lyon, Lisa Moore, Heather O'Neill, Pasha Malla, Timothy Taylor... Read more >

The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories

Edited by Ben Marcus

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3482-6 (1-4000-3482-5)

“In twenty-nine separate but ingenious ways, these stories seek permanent residence within a reader. They strive to become an emotional or intellectual cargo that might accompany us wherever, or however, we go. . . . If we are made by what we read, if language truly builds people into what they... Read more >

The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories

Written by Valerie Martin

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9550-6 (1-4000-9550-6)

In this vital and heartbreaking collection of stories, Valerie Martin, the bestselling author of Mary Reilly and the internationally acclaimed Property, turns an unflinching eye upon artists—driven and blocked, desired and detested, infamous and sublime, as they struggle beneath the tyranny of Art to reconcile their audience with their muse.

A... Read more >

More Stories We Tell
The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women
Written by Wendy Martin

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71450-4 (0-375-71450-2)

In this anthology, Wendy Martin offers us an assortment of stellar short stories written by North American women over the past thirty years. In reading these stories we see how vast and varied is the landscape of American fiction: We are transported from a Midwestern strip mine town in the 1970s... Read more >

We Are the Stories We Tell

Written by Wendy Martin

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 7, 1990
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72881-8 (0-679-72881-3)

“From the classics of Welty, Oates, and O’Connor to the latest stories of Mason, Erdrich, Atwood, and LeGuin, this anthology shows the astonishing range of contemporary women's fiction in North America,” writes Elaine Showalter. For all the diversity of the stories—in subject, style, setting and mood—they have one thing in common... Read more >

Shiloh and Other Stories

Written by Bobbie Ann Mason

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 7, 2001
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75843-0 (0-375-75843-7)

"These stories will last," said Raymond Carver of Shiloh And Other Stories when it was first published, and almost two decades later this stunning fiction debut and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award has become a modern American classic. In “Shiloh,” Bobbie Ann Mason introduces us to her western Kentucky people and... Read more >

Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail
Stories
Written by Bobbie Ann Mason

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: July 2, 2002
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-76061-7 (0-375-76061-X)

In this remarkable book, the author of Shiloh and Other Stories, In Country, and other award-winning books gives us powerful new stories that capture the restless energy of life in contemporary America. The characters here are travelers and seekers, feeling their way toward, or away from the defining moments of their... Read more >

All the Days and Nights
The Collected Stories
Written by William Maxwell

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 31, 1995
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76102-0 (0-679-76102-0)

From the American Book Award-winning author of Ancestors and Time Will Darken comes a masterful collection of stories, spanning more than 50 years—a tour of a world that engages readers entirely, and whose characters command the deepest loyalty and tenderness. Read more >