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Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime is a 1983 British television series based on the short stories of the same name by Agatha Christie.

Jesus' Son

Jesus' Son is a 1999 film that was adapted from a collection of short stories of the same name by Denis Johnson.

Justice Building

In Ian Fleming's short story "For Your Eyes Only" James Bond visits the RCMP headquarters when it was located in this building, and the book contains a description of the structure.

Red-billed Streamertail

The bird is featured in Ian Fleming's James Bond short story For Your Eyes Only.

The Amateur Cracksman

The book was very well received and spawned three follow-ups, two more short story collections The Black Mask (1901), A Thief in the Night (1904) and a full-length novel Mr. Justice Raffles in 1909.

The Dixon Cornbelt League and Other Baseball Stories

The Dixon Cornbelt League and Other Baseball Stories is a short story collection written by W. P. Kinsella.

Two Hearted River

The story, set after World War I, was first published in 1925 as part of the collection In Our Time and republished in 1972 as part of The Nick Adams Stories.


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A Late Encounter with the Enemy

It was written in 1953 and published in 1955 in her short story collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find and is her only story dealing with the American Civil War.

A. M. Homes

She followed it a year later with the short-story collection The Safety of Objects, which was released as a feature film in 2001.

Achmat Dangor

His most important works include the novels Kafka's Curse (1997) and Bitter Fruit (2001), but he is also the author of three collections of poetry, a novella and a short-story collection.

Atlantis to Interzone

The song references the mythical lost city of Atlantis and the short story collection Interzone by William S. Burroughs, which is itself Burroughs' concept of a "metaphorical stateless city".

Bathurst Manor

Much of David Bezmozgis's 2004 short story collection Natasha and Other Stories takes place in the general vicinity of the Bathurst Manor in the late 1980s.

Battleborn

Battleborn is a 2012 short story collection by Claire Vaye Watkins.

Bruce Sterling bibliography

Mirrorshades: A Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) - defining cyberpunk short story collection, edited by Bruce Sterling; ISBN 0-441-53382-5

Carol Windley

Born in Tofino, British Columbia and raised in British Columbia and Alberta, Windley's debut short story collection, Visible Light (1993) won the 1993 Bumbershoot Award, and was nominated for the 1993 Governor General's Award for English Fiction and the 1994 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

Christopher Kenworthy

He is the author of two novels, The Winter Inside and The Quality of Light for Serpent's Tail, along with a short story collection, Will You Hold Me? and the chapbook Sullom Hill.

Dare to Be Scared

Dare to Be Scared: Thirteen Stories to Chill and Thrill is a 2003 children's horror short story collection by Robert D. San Souci and illustrated by David Ouimet, consisting of thirteen stories.

Dark Lies the Island

His previous short story collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.

Dykanka

Dykanka is the location of the short story collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol.

Edifício Copan

A short story collection entitled Arca sem Noé - Histórias do Edifício Copan, by Brazilian author Regina Rheda, was published in Portuguese in 1994 and won the 1995 Jabuti prize in Brazil.

Eugène Dabit

He was part of the group "proletarian literature" and had a great success for his short story collection Hôtel du Nord which won the du Prix du roman populiste and was filmed in 1938 by Marcel Carné.

Female Cenobite

According to the NECA packaging for the Female Cenobite action figure, she was once a decadent nun named Sister Nikoletta, and while this does not specifically occur in the Hellraiser films, Barbie Wilde did write an origin story for the character in the Hellbound Hearts short story collection.

Future Primitive

Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias, a 1994 short story collection edited by Kim Stanley Robinso

Gayla Reid

In 1994, she published her first short story collection, To Be There With You, which was a winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 1995.

Githyanki

There is also passing reference to them in Martin's short-story collection Tuf Voyaging.

Headless men

Gene Wolfe writes of a man with his face on his chest, located in his short story collection Endangered Species.

Hrishikesh Sulabh

'Sulabh has just been bestowed upon with the Indu Sharma Antar-rashtriye Katha Samman by Katha,UK for his short-story collection Vasant ke Hatyare.

I Am No One You Know: Stories

I Am No One You Know: Stories is a short story collection by Joyce Carol Oates.

I, Roommate

The episode title is a spoof on the short story collection I, Robot by Isaac Asimov and the earlier short story of the same title by Eando Binder, although the plot of the episode has little to do with the original stories.

Into the Sun

Into the Sun & Other Stories, a 1980 short-story collection by Robert Duncan Milne

Jennifer Haigh

In 2013, her short story collection News From Heaven revisited the town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, and features encore appearances by several characters from the Baker Towers.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

2011 – Låt de gamla drömmarna dö (Let the Old Dreams Die, the English translation of the author's 2006 short-story collection "Pappersväggar")

Johnny Strike

His writing has appeared in Ambit magazine and Headpress Journal, and in 2008, with artist Richard Sala providing illustrations, Rudos and Rubes published his short story collection: A Loud Humming Sound Came From Above.

Juan Soto Ivars

He co-edited the short story collection Mi madre es un pez (2011) with Sergi Bellver.

Little Expressionless Animals

It was first published in The Paris Review, and reprinted in his short story collection Girl with Curious Hair.

Los Angeles Stories

Los Angeles Stories is a short-story collection by Ry Cooder.

Machine Made

In 1965 it had its copyright renewed, after which it was selected for inclusion in the April 1966 Giants Unleashed short story collection edited by Groff Conklin.

Nick Wallace

His first published work was the short story Five Dimensional Thinking in the Big Finish Productions Bernice Summerfield short story collection, Life During Wartime (Big Finish Productions, 2003), edited by Paul Cornell.

Nina Sosanya

In 2003 she played Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; in 2008 she returned to the RSC to play Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost and in 2009 appeared in a radio adaptation of a story from the short-story collection The State of the Art.

Partners in Crime

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime, a 1980s TV series based on the short story collection

Pictures of Fidelman

Pictures of Fidelman is a short story collection by Bernard Malamud, which gathers six stories dealing with Arthur Fidelman, an art student from the Bronx who travels to Italy, initially to research Giotto, but also with the hopes of becoming a painter.

Sandhya

Sandhya Bhraman, a short story collection by Bhabendra Nath Saikia

Tales of Wonder

The Last Book of Wonder, first published as Tales of Wonder, a 1916 short story collection written by Lord Dunsany

Ten Stories About Smoking

Ten Stories About Smoking is the debut short story collection by writer Stuart Evers.

The Atmospheric Railway

The Atmospheric Railway: New and Selected Stories, is a 2008 short story collection by British author Shena Mackay comprising thirteen new stories, and twenty-three selected from earlier collections.

The Camels are Coming

The Camels Are Coming (book), a 1932 aviation short-story collection set in World War I, the first book of the Biggles series

The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 2

The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 2 is a short-story collection by J. G. Ballard, published in 2006.

The Prophets' Paradise

The Prophets' Paradise is a sequence of eerie prose poems forming an open-ended short story published by Robert W. Chambers in his short story collection The King in Yellow (1895).

The Thing Around Your Neck

The Thing Around Your Neck is a short story collection by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, it was first published in April 2009 by Fourth Estate in the UK and by Knopf in the US.

The Truth About Love

Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love, short story collection by British author Dan Rhodes

Tomoyuki Hoshino

His short story "Chino" has been translated into English by Lucy Fraser, and is now part of his short story collection "We, the Children of Cats" (2012), otherwise translated by Brian Bergstrom, and his novel Lonely Hearts Killer has been translated into English by Adrienne Hurley and is published by PM Press.

What You Make It

The short story collection What You Make It by Michael Marshall Smith was first published in 1999, and represents the first time that the author's short stories had been collected.

Zhang Yingtai

Her most famous works are "Hunting the Oroqen" (鄂倫春之獵), a short story about a researcher of Oroqen culture, and the short story collection Tibetan Lover (西藏愛人) (also called Romance in Tibet).