The Perfect Novella: Longer than a story, tighter than a novel

The middle form at its best — long enough to build a world, short enough to read in a sitting. Heart of Darkness, The Metamorphosis, and their kin.

In this collection

• The Mad Dog
• Henry James: Within the Rim
• Blasphemious Swearin
• The Notch on the Axe. -- a Story a La Mode
• The Cosmic Bluff
• Memory Hold-The-Door
• Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
• The Skeleton Key
• Mademoiselle Fifi
• A Clever Slave
• A Departmental Case
• The Pawnbroker's Shop
• The Pilgrim
• The Cobweb
• An Account of some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street
• HARMODIUS AND ARISTOGITON From the Greek
• The just Men of Cordova
• Bertie Changes His Mind
• Tiny Tim
• Brothers
• In His Hand
• A Song of Derivations
• The Screaming Skull
• To Make a Hero
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