Short story collections offer the perfect medium for fiction writers to craft compelling, affecting narratives that simply may not warrant a full-length novel to explore the ideas. The short story ...

Callahan impressively uses detail to develop her characters in a short period of time and does not shy away from any witty humour opportunities! If neither of these peak your interest, be sure to take ...

By the 1950s one could hire a cleaner, most of them Yemeni, by driving through an illegal housemaids’ fair in Tel Aviv. At ...

The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award—named in honour of Frank O'Connor, who devoted much of his work to the form—was an international literary award presented for the best short story ...

It was a great year for horror fiction, whether established favorites or buzzy debuts. These are our picks for the best ...

All hail, then, the sci-fi short story, bringing you a slice of the weird, the mind-expanding and the futuristic in pocket-sized format. Did you know that Hugo Gernsback, after whom science ...

This collection highlights Unni’s experiments with the short story form. He was no hero. He was not one to rescue his loved one by hauling her back from the blazing wreckage of a broken world or ...

Author of The Stormlight Archive and the Mistborn saga Brandon Sanderson is set to publish new short story collection with Gollancz, an imprint of Orion, part of Hachette UK. The deal was agreed ...

From classic tales to contemporary novels and short story collections, these Christmastime murder mysteries are worth adding ...

There is something special about works I can read in full on a rainy Sunday afternoon or in the lamplight hours between ...