short stories, english

Contains twenty-nine short science fiction stories chosen by the editors as favorites of their youth, featuring selections dating from the 1930s onward, by such authors as Arthur C. Clarke, L. Sprague de Camp, Isaac Isomov, Theodore Sturgeon, and others.

Collects thirty-two space operas by such writers as Jack Williamson, Cordwainer Smith, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Charles Stross, spanning the 1950s through the twenty-first century, and includes an introduction on the history of the genre.

Twelve short stories about seven-year-olds.

An anthology of short stories by thirty-four contemporary British writers.

Presents thirteen classic horror stories spanning 1843-1948 by such authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, H. G. Wells, and Shirley Jackson.

Contains a collection of thirty-five short stories that were adapted to film, arranged by genre, and includes an examination of the process of turning a short piece of fiction into a screenplay. Features stories by Harvey Pekar, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and Jean Shepherd.

A collection of classic fantasy stories which inspired J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" stories and the genre of modern fantasy.

A collection of forty-four short stories by such Scottish authors as J.M. Barrie, Janice Galloway, and Robert Louis Stevenson.