Summary: Starting with the 2021, the annual short story anthology will now become The Best American Mystery and Suspense and the new series editor, Steph Cha, and best-selling guest editor, Alafair Burke, will select the best short mystery and suspense fiction of the year.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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Summary: "A group of friends discover something horrible under the trap door of the cabin they're renting. A chance encounter with a talkative night watchman while on jury duty creates havoc with a man's experience of reality. A very special club in Australia collects steering wheels salvaged from fatal car accidents. Two hikers in the Montana mountains make a gruesome discovery during their descent. A...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade Books 2022

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Gilchrist, Ellen

Summary: Master short story writer Ellen Gilchrist, winner of the National Book Award, returns with her first story collection in over eight years. In Acts of God, she has crafted ten different scenarios in which people dealing with forces beyond their control somehow manage to survive, persevere, and triumph, even if it is only a triumph of the will. -- Amazon.com.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: A continuation of the very popular Very Christmas series conveying a festive spirit from the place where many Christmas traditions were invented. A delightful and unpredictable collection redolent of candle-lit trees, St. Nikolaus, gingerbread, the Christkindl, roast goose and red cabbage, Gugelhopf and stollen cakes, accompanied by plenty of schnapps.

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Vessel Press 2020

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Summary: "In a crowded Chicago airport, an incident at TSA impacts twelve young Asian Americans, all strangers to one another before this day. As events cause their journeys to intertwine, they discover the challenges of friendship, the perils of younger siblings, the power or words, and the unexpected significance of a blue Stratocaster electric guitar. Twelve virtuoso authors draw from their own...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Allida, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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Summary: "Short stories by some of today's top names in fantasy, horror, and mystery."--Front cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2017

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Summary: Much like a fine wine the 'Best Gay Erotica' series just keeps getting better with each passing year--and this year's volume is no exception! With M/M erotic stories about dominant men standing tall and powerful over their submissive, to dashing men with looks to kill for, to the rough-and-tumble type who is just asking for you to get down and dirty. So, pour yourself a glass and curl up with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: CLEIS Press 2018

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Babelʹ, I. (Isaak)

Summary: "The brutalities and dualities of war and religion unflinchingly depicted by this major Russian-Jewish writer War's mess and muddle, the brutality and the inanity of fighting-few have better captured this than Isaac Babel, who was a journalist with the Soviet First Cavalry Army. His unflinching portrayal of the murderous havoc of battle is offset by an unexpected and wry humour: having seen the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushkin 2014

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