short stories, american

Contains five stories about teens facing personal issues, including dating violence, stalking, making friends, and more.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide career biographies of twenty-five American short story writers active in the years between 1910 and 1945; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.

Profiles more than thirty American short-story writers from the period 1880-1910, presenting primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrated biographical essays that chronicle each writer's career in detail.

Contains alphabetically arranged essays that provide biographical and critical information aboutthirty-six significant American short-story writers active before 1880; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.

Six short stories with subjects ranging from a dejected teenager who discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left behind in a seagull's nest to two vampires in a sun-drenched lemon grove who try helplessly to slake their thirst for blood.

Presents a collection of thirteen short horror stories written by Stephen King. Titles include "Willa," "Rest Stop," "The Things They Left Behind," and "N.".

Presents the next generation of superheroes for the twenty-first century. Includes the Midwestern hero Meerkat, the creepy hero Silverfish, and Manna Man, who controls the minds of televangelists.

A collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories.

A collection of twenty original urban fantasy stories, including selections by Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs, Holly Black, Melissa Marr, and others.

A collection of short stories featuring a variety of women from different backgrounds who struggle to live difficult lives.