"John O'Neill's gothic short stories, set in the Canadian Rockies, are haunted by the violence inherent in nature and humans. The mountains are majestic and impassive. The characters are surprising, bent, but also empathetic. Their...
Short stories, Canadian
- Author:O'Neill, JohnSummary:
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
In Good Bones, first published in 1992, Margaret Atwood has fashioned an enthralling collection of parable, monologue, mini-romance and mini-biography, speculative fiction, prose lyric, outrageous recipe and reconfigured fairy...
- Author:McPherson, ChristianSummary:
Christian McPherson's second collection of short stories serves up a boozy menu of mixed cocktails. Whether it be funny twisted tales of suburban marriages on the rocks, glue sniffing felons looking to win a radio contest, or...
- Author:RolliSummary:
The short stories in God`s Autobio, Rolli’s debut collection, are impossible, quite probable, and everything in between. There’s a story about a man with a ridiculously huge coupon; about an elderly woman who befriends a frenzied...
- Author:Margoshes, DaveSummary:
God Telling a Joke and Other Stories is a collection of new stories by the author of Bix's Trumpet and Other Stories, named Book of the Year at the Saskatchewan Book Awards and a finalist for the ReLit Award in 2007. Among the...
- Author:Lalonde, AngéliqueSummary:
Four sisters and their mother explore their fears while teeny ghost people dress up in fragments of their children's clothes. A somewhat-ghost tends the family garden. Deep in the mountains, a shape-shifting mother must sift...
- Author:Barclay, ByrnaSummary:
This collection of short stories from Canada all have a central, connecting theme -- haunting pasts and how they weave their way into the lives of those they haunt.
- Author:Adler, Nathan Niigan NoodinSummary:
Pyromaniacs, vigilantes, mysterious phenomena, prehistoric beasts, cryptid species, grave robbers and ghosts... the stories of Ghost Lake feature a cast of interrelated characters and their brushes with the supernatural, creatures of...
- Author:Reid-Benta, ZalikaSummary:
Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle -- of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a "true" Jamaican, of her mother and grandmother's rages and life lessons, of having to avoid being thought of as too "faas" or too "quiet" or...
- Author:Munro, AliceSummary:
Men and women, in the midst of contemporary quandaries and crises, recall the long-buried yearnings, dreams, and hard choices that have given shape to their lives.
- Author:Weaver, KeithSummary:
What might happen when one tries to move a railway station? Do you know where Jericho is? Can someone could become rich based on knowledge of an obsolete size of paper? Ever had nightmares about a pitcher plant? In Fool's Cap and...
- Author:Sonik, MadelineSummary:
Linked short stories based in the imaginary city of Fontainebleau, on the banks of the Detroit River. There's something poisonous in the water, something menacing in the sky, and the soil, laced with an ancient curse, is yielding...
- Author:Mayoff, StevenSummary:
Belonging and the search for home and family are at the center of the title story, "Fatted Calf Blues." Here, a woman hitchhikes home to Alberta to see her dying father. At a truck stop near Dauphin, Manitoba she meets a...
- Author:Hopkinson, NaloSummary:
In this long-awaited collection, Hopkinson continues to expand the boundaries of culture and imagination. Whether she is retelling The Tempest as a new Caribbean myth, filling a shopping mall with unfulfilled ghosts, or herding chickens...
- Author:Sanford Blades, SusanSummary:
Fake it so Real takes on the fallout from a punk-rock lifestyle--the future of "no future"--and its effect on the subsequent generations of one family. In June of 1983, Gwen, a gnarly Nancy Spungen look-alike, meets Damian, the...
- Author:Tamayose, DarcySummary:
Award-winning author Darcy Tamayose returns with Ezra's Ghosts, a collection of fantastical stories linked by a complex mingling of language and culture, as well as a deep understanding of grief and what it makes of us. Within...
- Author:Novakovich, JosipSummary:
Short story writer, novelist and essayist Josip Novakovich returns with his first collection of stories since being named a finalist for the prestigious 2013 Man Booker International prize. In Ex-Yu, he explores the major themes of war...
- Author:Goodhand, SeywardSummary:
Even That Wildest Hope bursts with vibrant, otherworldly characters-wax girls and gods-among-men, artists on opposite sides of a war, aimless plutocrats and anarchist urchins-who are sometimes wondrous, often grotesque, and always...
- Author:Clark, TrevorSummary:
From the author of the novels Love on the Killing Floor and Dragging the River, Trevor Clark’s new collection of stories covers broad territory, from an addict’s confessions to the corruption of academia, in such diverse locales as...
- Author:Claude BolducSummary:
Une maison, c'est la sécurité. C'est aussi un signe de réussite, c'est même l'ultime refuge de qui cherche à s'isoler. Lorsque Jacques voit se présenter la chance de quitter son logement miteux et d'...