Stories
type: Work
creator: Neil Gaiman
subject: Fiction
subject: Literature
subject: American Short stories
subject: American fiction
subject: English Short stories
subject: English fiction
subject: Fiction, short stories (single author)
subject: Short stories, english
subject: Short stories, american
coverage: 21st century
description: "The joy of fiction is the joy of the imagination. . . ."The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.Stories is a groundbreaking anthology that reinvigorates, expands, and redefines the limits of imaginative fiction and affords some of the best writers in the world—from Peter Straub and Chuck Palahniuk to Roddy Doyle and Diana Wynne Jones, Stewart O'Nan and Joyce Carol Oates to Walter Mosley and Jodi Picoult—the opportunity to work together, defend their craft, and realign misconceptions. Gaiman, a literary magician whose acclaimed work defies easy categorization and transcends all boundaries, and "master anthologist" (Booklist) Sarrantonio personally invited, read, and selected all the stories in this collection, and their standard for this "new literature of the imagination" is high. "We wanted to read stories that used a lightning-flash of magic as a way of showing us something we have already seen a thousand times as if we have never seen it at all."Joe Hill boldly aligns theme and form in his disturbing tale of a man's descent into evil in "Devil on the Staircase." In "Catch and Release," Lawrence Block tells of a seasoned fisherman with a talent for catching a bite of another sort. Carolyn Parkhurst adds a dark twist to sibling rivalry in "Unwell." Joanne Harris weaves a tale of ancient gods in modern New York in "Wildfire in Manhattan." Vengeance is the heart of Richard Adams's "The Knife." Jeffery Deaver introduces a dedicated psychologist whose mission in life is to save people in "The Therapist." A chilling punishment befitting an unspeakable crime is at the dark heart of Neil Gaiman's novelette "The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains."As it transforms your vi…
creator: Al Sarrantonio
creator: Roddy Doyle
creator: Joyce Carol Oates
creator: Joanne Harris
creator: Michael Marshall Smith
creator: Joe R. Lansdale
creator: Walter Mosley
creator: Richard Adams
creator: Jodi Picoult
creator: Michael Swanwick
creator: Peter Straub
creator: Lawrence Block
creator: Jeffrey Ford
creator: Chuck Palahniuk
creator: Diana Wynne Jones
creator: Stewart O'Nan
creator: Gene Wolfe
creator: Carolyn Parkhurst
creator: Kat Howard
creator: Jonathan Carroll
creator: Jeffery Deaver
creator: Tim Powers
creator: Kurt Anderson
creator: Michael Moorcock
creator: Elizabeth Hand
creator: Joe Hill
creator: Carolyn Packhurst

Stories: all new tales
work manifested: Stories
date: 2011

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work manifested: Stories
date: 2011

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work manifested: Stories
date: 2010

Stories: All-New Tales
work manifested: Stories
date: Jul 06, 2010

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work manifested: Stories
date: 2011

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work manifested: Stories
date: Apr 01, 2011

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work manifested: Stories
date: Jun 15, 2010

Stories: all new tales
work manifested: Stories
date: 2010

Stories
work manifested: Stories
date: 2010

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