Stories to Read by Candlelight, by Jean Lorrain, is a collection of short bedtime stories about the lingering grandeur of the past. The collection begins with the narrator and a seamstress named Norine, who would often tell the narrator stories. Some of the stories she...

Snapshots: A Collection of Short Stories, written by Eliot Parker, contains a fascinating set of stories. With settings in large cities and small towns, in Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, each story is distinctly unique. Some stories are tinged with magical realism, while others are...

Donna Lee Davis combines finely crafted prose and poetry in Something Else Entirely. This compilation of stories touches your heart, leaving a lingering impression. The short stories tell tales of aging, death, love lost, love found, friendship, family devotion and the power of forgiveness. The...

I learned about James Henna when I first read his hilarious novel, Call Me Pomeroy, and have been on the lookout for anything he writes because of the humor in his writing and the exceptional characters. Shackles and More Gripping Tales is a collection of...

Some Time Later: Fantastic Voyages Through Alternate Worlds edited by AJ Sikes, BJ Sikes, and Dover Whitecliff is an anthology of short stories from authors featured in Twelve Hours Later and Thirty Days Later. Three men discover the whereabouts of a vampire and a werewolf...

Without intending to disparage our contemporary writing world, I must observe that Silently in the Night by Clayton Graham harkens back well and fondly to the golden years of speculative short-story fiction collected from great masters like Asimov, Bradbury, and Clarke. In addition to clever...

Six Stories Up by Kregg P.J. Jorgenson is actually a captivating collection of five very short stories and one short novella. I cannot remember enjoying a collection as engaging as this one in a long time. What makes it so good is the realistic characterization,...

Short Stories IV: Fantasy & Sci-Fi is my second foray in the wonderful writings of Rich DiSilvio and to say I am impressed would be an understatement. He is a master of words; he chooses his words so wisely so that they have the best...

Spider Season by Billy Hanson is a compilation of short stories and (surprise!) three screenplays. Hanson delivers each piece accompanied by a cover-style illustration and, with the screenplays, a personal note on how they came about. Ten tales of horror in total, all narrated independently...

Seven Ghostly Spins by Patricia Bossano is a collection of brushes with the supernatural. With their basis in truth and legend, these are your worst nightmares realized. A theater with a ghost; a moonlit walk that leads to a nightmare; the legend of Flo...