Short Stories in Fiction & Literature eBooks

The End of the World As We Know It

New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand

Edited by Christopher Golden, Brian Keene ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERUSA TODAY BESTSELLERLOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERTHE WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERAn original short story anthology based on master storyteller Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestselling classic The Stand!</str... ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERUSA TODAY BESTSELLERLOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERTHE WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERAn original short story anthology based on master storyteller Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestselling classic The Stand!</str...
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Men Without Women

Stories

by Haruki Murakami ...

Translated by Philip Gabriel, Ted Goossen ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Including the story "Drive My Car”—now an Academy Award–nominated film—this collection from the internationally acclaimed author "examines what happens to characters without important women in their lives; it'll move you and confuse you and sometimes leave you with more questions than answers" (Barack Obama).Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Including the story "Drive My Car”—now an Academy Award–nominated film—this collection from the internationally acclaimed author "examines what happens to characters without important women in their lives; it'll move you and confuse you and sometimes leave you with more questions than answers" (Barack Obama).Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation
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The Diving Pool

Three Novellas

by Yoko Ogawa ...

Translated by Stephen Snyder ...

The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authorsFrom Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent.A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster brother as she watches him leap from a ... Read more

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The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authorsFrom Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent.A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster brother as she watches him leap from a
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H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction

by H. P. Lovecraft ...

Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes, that have influenced some of today's writers and filmmakers, including Stephen King, Alan Moore, F. Paul Wilson, Guillermo del Toro, and Neil Gaiman. Included in this volume are "The Case of Charles ... Read more

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Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes, that have influenced some of today's writers and filmmakers, including Stephen King, Alan Moore, F. Paul Wilson, Guillermo del Toro, and Neil Gaiman. Included in this volume are "The Case of Charles
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The Typing Lady

And Other Fictions

by Ruth Ozeki ...

**A Boston Globe Best Book of the Summer | A Time and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year | A People Most Anticipated Summer ReadA spellbinding story collection from Booker Prize finalist Ruth Ozeki, about the lives we almost lived, the people we can’t quite forget, and the stories that shape us long after the last page is turned**In this spirited and emotionally resonant collection, award ... Read more

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**A Boston Globe Best Book of the Summer | A Time and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year | A People Most Anticipated Summer ReadA spellbinding story collection from Booker Prize finalist Ruth Ozeki, about the lives we almost lived, the people we can’t quite forget, and the stories that shape us long after the last page is turned**In this spirited and emotionally resonant collection, award
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Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare

Stories

by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto ...

USA Today BestsellerA Debutiful "Best Debuts of the Year""Rich and wise, humming with confidence." — New York Times Book Review"A knockout. Eleven knockouts. One KO for every story."—Elizabeth McCracken" Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare is a frontrunner for Book of the Year." — DebutifulMegan Kamalei Kakimoto's wrenching and sen... ... Read more

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USA Today BestsellerA Debutiful "Best Debuts of the Year""Rich and wise, humming with confidence." — New York Times Book Review"A knockout. Eleven knockouts. One KO for every story."—Elizabeth McCracken" Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare is a frontrunner for Book of the Year." — DebutifulMegan Kamalei Kakimoto's wrenching and sen...
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Russian Fairy Tales

by Aleksandr Afanas'ev ...

Series series The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Beautifully illustrated, here is the most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales available in English.This comprehensive collection introduces readers to universal fairy-tale figures and to such uniquely Russian characters such as Koshchey the Deathless, Baba Yaga, the Swan Maiden, and the glorious Firebird. The more than 175 tales culled from a landmark multi-volume collection by the ... Read more

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Beautifully illustrated, here is the most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales available in English.This comprehensive collection introduces readers to universal fairy-tale figures and to such uniquely Russian characters such as Koshchey the Deathless, Baba Yaga, the Swan Maiden, and the glorious Firebird. The more than 175 tales culled from a landmark multi-volume collection by the
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Stag Dance

A Quartet

by Torrey Peters ...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “This inventive, boundary-pushing follow-up to Detransition, Baby . . . [takes] on gender, transness and lives on the margins in all of their gorgeously complicated glory.”—People“Hot, heartbreaking, and thrillingly victorious.”—Miranda July, New York Times bestselling author of All FoursNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • LONGLISTE... ... Read more

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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “This inventive, boundary-pushing follow-up to Detransition, Baby . . . [takes] on gender, transness and lives on the margins in all of their gorgeously complicated glory.”—People“Hot, heartbreaking, and thrillingly victorious.”—Miranda July, New York Times bestselling author of All FoursNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • LONGLISTE...
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

by George R. R. Martin ...

Series series A Song of Ice and Fire
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIESTaking place nearly a century before the events of A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms compiles the three official prequel novellas to George R. R. Martin's ongoing masterwork, A Song of Ice and Fire.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LOS ANGELES TIMES AND BUZZFEEDThese collected adventures recoun... ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIESTaking place nearly a century before the events of A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms compiles the three official prequel novellas to George R. R. Martin's ongoing masterwork, A Song of Ice and Fire.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LOS ANGELES TIMES AND BUZZFEEDThese collected adventures recoun...
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The McBain Brief

Stories

by Ed McBain ...

A collection of twenty short stories from the legendary crime author and creator of the 87th Precinct series.Ed McBain was one of the most admired and prolific crime writers of the twentieth century. His long-running 87th Precinct series helped define the gritty police procedural. In The McBain Brief, he presents a series of short stories where desperation, greed, and violence lead to bad ends.A ... Read more

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A collection of twenty short stories from the legendary crime author and creator of the 87th Precinct series.Ed McBain was one of the most admired and prolific crime writers of the twentieth century. His long-running 87th Precinct series helped define the gritty police procedural. In The McBain Brief, he presents a series of short stories where desperation, greed, and violence lead to bad ends.A
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Strange Pictures

A Novel

by Uketsu ...

Translated by Jim Rion ...

A BARNES AND NOBLE BEST BOOK OF 2025“Uketsu’s strange riddles are chilling and addictive – I couldn’t put it down.” —R. F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface“Delightfully macabre and fiendishly clever. Seemingly unconnected stories tie themselves into a complicated knot, which Uketsu masterfully unravels.”—G. T. Karber, author of the national bestseller <em... ... Read more

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A BARNES AND NOBLE BEST BOOK OF 2025“Uketsu’s strange riddles are chilling and addictive – I couldn’t put it down.” —R. F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface“Delightfully macabre and fiendishly clever. Seemingly unconnected stories tie themselves into a complicated knot, which Uketsu masterfully unravels.”—G. T. Karber, author of the national bestseller <em...
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Tenth of December

Stories

by George Saunders ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY AND BUZZFEED • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century**A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: People, The New York ... ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY AND BUZZFEED • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century**A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: People, The New York ...
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Paladins of Shannara: The Black Irix (Short Story)

by Terry Brooks ...

Series series Paladins of Shannara
An old friend urges Shea Ohmsford to take a dangerous risk in the concluding story of this gripping Shannara eBook series by New York Times bestselling fantasy master Terry Brooks.Shea Ohmsford has had quite enough of quests. A year after surviving a harrowing odyssey, he is still plagued by troubling memories and dreams. A mysterious trafficker in spells and potions provides a restorative nostrum ... Read more

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An old friend urges Shea Ohmsford to take a dangerous risk in the concluding story of this gripping Shannara eBook series by New York Times bestselling fantasy master Terry Brooks.Shea Ohmsford has had quite enough of quests. A year after surviving a harrowing odyssey, he is still plagued by troubling memories and dreams. A mysterious trafficker in spells and potions provides a restorative nostrum
... Read more
Paladins of Shannara: The Weapons Master's Choice (Short Story)

by Terry Brooks ...

Series series Paladins of Shannara
A city besieged by a powerful warlock seeks salvation from a fabled warrior in the second of three gripping new stand-alone eBook short stories set in the world of the fantasy-fiction phenomenon that is Shannara—by beloved New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks.His extraordinary—and deadly—skills have earned Garet Jax renown and infamy as the man called the Weapons Master. Rootless, ... Read more

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A city besieged by a powerful warlock seeks salvation from a fabled warrior in the second of three gripping new stand-alone eBook short stories set in the world of the fantasy-fiction phenomenon that is Shannara—by beloved New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks.His extraordinary—and deadly—skills have earned Garet Jax renown and infamy as the man called the Weapons Master. Rootless,
... Read more
Paladins of Shannara: Allanon's Quest (Short Story)

by Terry Brooks ...

Series series Paladins of Shannara
The legendary hero Allanon takes center stage in the first of three gripping new stand-alone eBook short stories set in the world of the fantasy-fiction phenomenon that is Shannara—by beloved New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks.The history is thus: The once-Druid Brona, seduced by his pursuit of dark magic, was forever transformed into the Warlock Lord—whose evil would be the downfall ... Read more

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The legendary hero Allanon takes center stage in the first of three gripping new stand-alone eBook short stories set in the world of the fantasy-fiction phenomenon that is Shannara—by beloved New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks.The history is thus: The once-Druid Brona, seduced by his pursuit of dark magic, was forever transformed into the Warlock Lord—whose evil would be the downfall
... Read more
Wake, Siren

Ovid Resung

by Nina MacLaughlin ...

In fierce, textured voices, the women of Ovid's Metamorphoses claim their stories and challenge the power of myth.A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at Lit Hub"Provocative reinterpretations of some very old stories . . . [Nina MacLaughlin] sets herself apart is by focusing on female characters, many of them less well known to a contemporary audience . . . MacLaughlin succeeds in making these stories ... Read more

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In fierce, textured voices, the women of Ovid's Metamorphoses claim their stories and challenge the power of myth.A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at Lit Hub"Provocative reinterpretations of some very old stories . . . [Nina MacLaughlin] sets herself apart is by focusing on female characters, many of them less well known to a contemporary audience . . . MacLaughlin succeeds in making these stories
... Read more
Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman ...

Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, a landmark work of early modern literature, in an expanded P.S. editionWidely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, this classic of Spanish literature, Don Quixote, chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as ... Read more

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Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, a landmark work of early modern literature, in an expanded P.S. editionWidely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, this classic of Spanish literature, Don Quixote, chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as
... Read more
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 193 (June 2026)

Lightspeed Magazine, #193

by John Joseph Adams ...

Series Book 193 - Lightspeed Magazine
LIGHTSPEED is a digital science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF-and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.Welcome to issue 193 of LIGHTSPEED! Our first SF short is a grim and gritty ... Read more

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LIGHTSPEED is a digital science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF-and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.Welcome to issue 193 of LIGHTSPEED! Our first SF short is a grim and gritty
... Read more
Sing to It

New Stories

by Amy Hempel ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD | ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR | ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARFrom legendary writer Amy Hempel, one of the most celebrated and original voices in contemporary American short fiction: an astounding literary short story collection of fifteen stories that are “riveting in precision” (The Atlantic) and “scintillating as the blade of a knife” (The ... Read more

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LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD | ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR | ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARFrom legendary writer Amy Hempel, one of the most celebrated and original voices in contemporary American short fiction: an astounding literary short story collection of fifteen stories that are “riveting in precision” (The Atlantic) and “scintillating as the blade of a knife” (The
... Read more
The Trouble With Scots

Body of Knowledge, #3

by Eliza Lloyd ...

Series Book 3 - Body of Knowledge
Eadan MacMurough can see the future—the one where he is alone and the one where he finally meets the woman who will be his wife. It has been long ten years. On the carriage ride home from the meeting of The Society for the Advancement of Science, Eadan is plagued by the beginnings of a crippling vision.At last he is to meet her.She is a laughing beauty with auburn hair. Gelasia Cabot is the woman ... Read more

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Eadan MacMurough can see the future—the one where he is alone and the one where he finally meets the woman who will be his wife. It has been long ten years. On the carriage ride home from the meeting of The Society for the Advancement of Science, Eadan is plagued by the beginnings of a crippling vision.At last he is to meet her.She is a laughing beauty with auburn hair. Gelasia Cabot is the woman
... Read more
Birds of America

Stories

by Lorrie Moore ...

Series series Vintage Contemporaries
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs: A collection of twelve stories that’s “one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability" (The New York Times Book Review).A volume by one of the most exciting writers at work today, the acclaimed author of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Self-Help. Stories ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs: A collection of twelve stories that’s “one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability" (The New York Times Book Review).A volume by one of the most exciting writers at work today, the acclaimed author of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Self-Help. Stories
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Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent

by Scott Lynch, Even Mehl Amundsen ...

The novels in the acclaimed Gentleman Bastards series trace the exploits of an elite band of thieves and confidence artists moving through a richly imagined city-state shaped in the image of medieval Venice. In Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent, Scott Lynch returns to the cobblestones and canals of Camorr, offering a glimpse into the formative years of one of the young Gentleman Bastards.Here, ... Read more

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The novels in the acclaimed Gentleman Bastards series trace the exploits of an elite band of thieves and confidence artists moving through a richly imagined city-state shaped in the image of medieval Venice. In Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent, Scott Lynch returns to the cobblestones and canals of Camorr, offering a glimpse into the formative years of one of the young Gentleman Bastards.Here,
... Read more
The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights

by Faye Kellerman ...

A collection of 14 crime and mystery stories—plus 4 bonus tales—by the New York Times bestselling "master of mystery" ( Cleveland Plain Dealer ).In The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights, Faye Kellerman returns to her fan-favorite characters, Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, in three never-before-published stories—including "The Garden of Eden," in which Peter and... ... Read more

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A collection of 14 crime and mystery stories—plus 4 bonus tales—by the New York Times bestselling "master of mystery" ( Cleveland Plain Dealer ).In The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights, Faye Kellerman returns to her fan-favorite characters, Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, in three never-before-published stories—including "The Garden of Eden," in which Peter and...
... Read more
She's Always Hungry

Stories

by Eliza Clark ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "BEST HORROR FICTION OF 2024"From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, comes a fierce, visionary and darkly comic story collection.A woman welcomes a parasite into her body.A teenager longs for perfect skin.A scientist tends to fragile alien flora.A young man takes the night into... ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "BEST HORROR FICTION OF 2024"From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, comes a fierce, visionary and darkly comic story collection.A woman welcomes a parasite into her body.A teenager longs for perfect skin.A scientist tends to fragile alien flora.A young man takes the night into...
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