In addition to his many novels, Stephen King has churned out a large amount of scary short stories. We ranked 10 of the best.

The new collection by the English short-story virtuoso Hadley concerns her familiar themes: the oft-doomed quest for an authentic self; families that are distant and duplicitous; and exhausted ...

The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, edited by Jay Rubin. In this idiosyncratic collection of Japanese short stories, “quite old works and very new works” appear side by side, “like ...

Helen Schulman talks about writing the short stories in her new book, ‘Fools for Love.’ We also check in with Now Serving, a ...

Books: New Short Stories. 3 minute read. TIME. September 30, 1957 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... This episode from The Genius, one of the 15 short stories in Author O’Connor’s new book, ...

The books were released in English in 2007, with Danusia Stok translating the first two and David French taking over duties from the third book. ... The second book of short stories, ...

Author Mahesh Rao, whose first book, One Point Two Billion (2015), was a collection of short stories, calls this pronouncement “a self-defeating thing”, because it shrinks the market for short ...

The winning book, the first collection of short stories to be awarded the prize, was announced by author Max Porter, chair of the 2025 judges, at a ceremony in London’s Tate Modern.