"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 ar…
It's Thanksgiving! A.J. is thankful for Dr. Carbles, who is grumpier than ever Dr. Carbles even fires Mr. Klutz! Will A.J. and his friends be able to save their principal's job?
Tale of two sisters, one of whom dies under ambiguous circumstances in the opening pages.
Some stories refuse to stay bottled up... When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives. The tiger offers Lily a deal: if Lily will open her grandmother's star jars and return what she stole, the tiger will heal her grandmother. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her…
Heidi lives with her grandfather in his little wooden house, high up in the mountain of Switzerland. One day Heidi's aunt arrives and takes her to Clara's home in Frankfurt. Heidi likes her new friend, but she doesn't like living in a big house in the ci
When a five year old girl Heidi brought to her grandfather by her Aunt Dete, the people in the village were sure the grumpy old man will turn them down. But Heidi's peculiar personality soften her grandfather's heart, and for a while Heidi lived happily on the mountain, befriended Peter the goatherd and his grandmother. Unfortunately, Aunt Dete returned and took Heidi to Frankfurt to became a c…
Zach thought he had a pretty ordinary life. That was until his hidden power was suddenly awakened one day when he was playing a video game with his sister and cousins. Apparently, their parents weren't ordinary human beings. They were in fact the kings and queens from another dimension called the Hero World. Now that their powers were awakened, Zach, his sister, and their three cousins were tak…
From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you’ve read before. An engaged couple falls out over the husband’s dislike of clothes and objects made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deeply enamoured with the curtain in her childhood bedroom; people honour their dead by eat…