Before you is an amazing novel by Joyce Carol Oates, written in the ragtime style. The story of an American family at the beginning of the century, which bec...

When Elizabeth Fitzgerald returned from Dublin with a child in her arms, everyone gasped. Such a shy, such a well-behaved girl, and suddenly disgraced! The f...

Many years ago, a love drama turned Amelia Greystone into a convinced old maid, forcing her to come to terms with a dull existence in the rural wilderness. T...

Oates's latest collection explores certain favorite Oatesian themes, primary among them violence, loss, and privilege. Three of the stories feature white,...

Ellen Datlow, the best editor and expert in the horror genre, has put together for you an amazing collection of stories, each of which is imbued with subtle ...

Ominous shadows of the past protruding from the darkness of the night... Fear lurking in the secret corners of the soul, coming to life again and again in bi...

This book provides a brief description of the fundamental ideas of the policy in an accessible form, explaining 101 key terms that are often found in the lit...

"The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories." -Shelf Awareness for Readers

The Be...

One morning, Miss Benson, a schoolteacher, decides to change her life and travel from post-war London to the other side of the world in search of an amazing ...

The collection consists of two dozen stories published in the 80s, written by both famous masters and young authors. Here the reader will find works about th...

Byron Hemmings knew that his mother was not like everyone else. Graceful, fragile, very beautiful, always reserved and friendly, Diana behaved like a real la...

Novelist, poet, playwright, and author of many of the best American short stories of our time, Joyce Carol Oates shows another aspect of her endless creative...