Gothic horror stories, traditional adventure tales and surreal fantasies – the Folio Society publishes a wide range of short story books. From collections by masters of the genre to anthologies of hilarious comic tales, each book includes original illustrations and features specially designed striking hardback bindings. See below for the list of Folio Short Story collections.
A young man gives a pair of pilgrims a lift to a wayside statue; two strangers meet at a hotel for a mysterious assignation; holidaymakers in Northern Ireland are haunted by the past. This is the world of William Trevor, widely hailed as the modern master of short fiction.
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William Trevor has selected and introduced 25 tales for this collection, acknowledging his debt to the author. V.S. Pritchett weaves his tales from the fabric of ordinary lives, the results by turns melancholy and nostalgic.
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With stories like ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’ and ‘Billy Budd’, Melville’s short fiction is unmissable. Illustrated by Bill Bragg.
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This collection of 19 crime stories forms a hall of fame for the greatest writers and characters from the golden age of detective fiction and is so popular that it is now in its sixth printing.
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Twenty-six tales taken from every stage of Hemingway's career make up this short stories collection.
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Mark Twain's reputation grew ever larger as the rest of the world caught up with his wickedly dry wit. In these stories, satires, travel pieces, speeches, letters and anecdotes, Twain pokes fun at himself and other Americans in places as diverse as the Mississippi riverboats and the castles of Europe.
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As well as being a great novelist, Mark Twain was a brilliant and prolific writer of short stories, using them to capture a dazzling variety of characters, landscapes and registers. This edition gathers together nearly 50 of his greatest tales, revealing his extraordinary versatility.
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In ‘Metamorphosis’, one of the most memorable short stories ever written, Franz Kafka treads an extraordinary tightrope between the surreal and the prosaic. When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach, his first confused thoughts are that he will be late for work.
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The author of the mordantly comic Devil's Dictionary is also revealed as a superb short story writer in this new collection of 90 gripping gothic tales, introduced by Will Self.
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