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Stories of suburban menace and domestic cruelty, anchored by the infamous title story of a village ritual.
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The Bird's Nest
Elizabeth Richmond, a meek museum clerk, starts receiving threatening letters she seems to have written herself, and her doctor discovers she is sharing her body with several other women.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Eighteen-year-old Merricat lives with her agoraphobic sister and frail uncle in the house where the rest of the Blackwoods were poisoned six years ago, until a cousin arrives and the village turns on them.
The Doll: The Lost Short Stories
Early stories du Maurier wrote in her twenties and lost for decades, including the title story of a young man's obsession with a mysterious violinist.
Don't Look Now
Stories of grief, premonition, and dread, including the title novella of a couple haunted by their dead child in Venice.
Homesick for Another World
Stories of deeply unlovable Americans examining their own decay with uncomfortable clarity.
The Auctioneer
In Harlowe, a farming town in New Hampshire, a charming newcomer named Perly Dunsmore starts holding weekly auctions for the police fund, and the townspeople are asked to give a little more each time.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
A story collection that threads transcripts of interviews with men about how they treat women among other experimental stories, from a boy on a high diving board to a depressed woman who cannot stop talking about her pain.
Vernon God Little
After a shooting at his Texas high school, fifteen-year-old Vernon Little, whose only friend was the killer, finds himself the town's scapegoat.
The Stories of John Cheever
Sixty-one stories of the American suburbs and cities after the war, from The Enormous Radio to The Swimmer.
A Curtain of Green
Welty's debut stories of small-town Mississippi lives: a travelling salesman, a postmistress, a Black jazz pianist, women talking on porches and in beauty parlours.
In Evil Hour
In a small Colombian town under a military mayor, anonymous lampoons start appearing on doors overnight, exposing the residents' secrets, and one of them leads to a killing.
Dear Life
Munro's last book: stories of small-town Ontario, ending with four pieces she called autobiographical in feeling, if not always in fact.