AMAZING STORY COLLECTION SIGNED BY EACH AUTHOR 

IMPORTANT NOTE - Jodi Picoult, Richard Adams and Diana Wynne Jones are not able to sign this edition, however it is signed by the rest of the author's featured.

EDITED BY NEIL GAIMAN AND AL SARRANTONIO WHO ALSO CONTRIBUTED STORIES


“Introduction: Just Four Words” Neil Gaiman
“Blood” Roddy Doyle
“Fossil Figures” Joyce Carol Oates
“Wildfire in Manhattan” Joanne Harris
“The Thah Is a Cave in the Black Mountains” Neil Gaiman
“Unbelief” Michael Marshall Smith
“The Stars Are Falling” Joe R. Lansdale
“Juvenal Nyx” Walter Mosley
“The Knife” Richard Adams
“Weights and Measures” Jodi Picoult
“Goblin Lake” Michael Swanwick
“Mallon the Guru” Peter Straub
“Catch and Release” Lawrence Block
“Polka Dots and Moonbeams” Jeffrey Ford
“Loser” Chuck Palahniuk
“Samantha’s Diary” Diana Wynne Jones
“Land of the Lost” Stewart O’Nan
“Leif in the Wind” Gene Wolfe
“Unwell” Carolyn Parkhurst
“A Life in Fictions” Kat Howard
‘Let the Past Begin” Jonathan Carroll
“The Therapist” Jeffery Deaver
“Parallel Lines” Tim Powers
“The Cult of the Nose” Al Sarrantonio
“Human Intelligence” Kurt Andersen
“Stories” Michael Moorcock
“The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon” Elizabeth Hand
“The Devil on the Staircase” Joe Hill


BEAUTIFUL PRESENTATION BY THE MYSTERIOUS PRESS


28 AUTHORS WITH INDIVIDUAL SIGNATURES LAID IN BEFORE EACH STORY

NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION OF 250 COPIES - THIS IS COPY 193


PURCHASED BY ME ON RELEASE THIS HAS BEEN IN STORAGE SINCE THEN


Product Information

This astonishing collection of all-new tales by some of the most acclaimed writers at work today is called, simply,Stories. Edited by Neil Gaiman (Sandman, The Graveyard Book, Anansi Boys, Coraline) and Al Sarrantonio (award-winning author of forty books and editor of numerous collections), Stories presents never before published short works from a veritable Who's Who of contemporary literature-breathtaking inventions from the likes of Lawrence Block, Roddy Doyle, Joanne Harris, Joe Hill, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Stewart O'Nan, Chuck Palahniuk, Carolyn Parkhurst, Jodi Picoult, Peter Straub…and, of course, the inimitable Neil Gaiman himself.


Gaiman, Neil (edited) & Sarrantonio, Al (edited)

Stories

The Mysterious Bookshop, 2010. 1st Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo.  

ISBN: 9780061230929

 

250 copies. 428p. Signed by each contributing author on laid-in page before their short story. Hardbound in marbled paper covered boards with gilt titled blue leatherette spine. Binding tight and square. No jacket as issued- protected in glassine cover.


Editorial Reviews

Review

“Stories is the perfect dark counterbalance to the smells of suntan lotion and barbecue smoke waiting for you this summer.” — Los Angeles Times

 

“These stories are part of what Gaiman and Sarrantonio call “a new literature of the imagination,” a rewardingly imprecise theme that guarantees that no matter how many times you dip into this tomish treasure chest, there will always be something surprising waiting for you inside.” — www.veryshortlist.com on STORIES

 

“If you can’t find something to like from [Stories] roster, you really need a vacation.” — St. Petersburg Times

 

“A sometimes creepy, dark and dreamlike two thumbs up.” — Time Out New York

 

“An ambitious anthology with a pleasing mix of modes and moods. Stories has a little something for everyone who appreciates the possibilities of short fiction.” — San Francisco Chronicle