Short story collections are big business. Tens of thousands of anthologies are in print with many more published each year. A quick look at Amazon shows more than 92,000 story anthologies listed. And ...

Shojaeddin Shafa is the translator of the collection published by Nakhostin in Tehran. “The Gold Bug” is a highlight of “Tales of Mystery and Imagination”, which was the first complete collection of ...

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...