Master detective Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick, Dr. John Watson, return in a new collection of holiday mystery stories by Anne Perry, Peter Lovesey, Barbara Paul, and other masters of the mystery genre

A collection of ghost stories centered around the War Between the States features tales by John Jakes, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Ambrose Bierce, and others.

Best-selling author of "The Kent Family Chronicles" and the three-volume Civil War epic "North And South," John Jakes is one of America's favorite historical novelists. But Jakes is also a master of Frontier fiction. Here, for the first time in one volume, are eleven of his finest stories of the American West and the brave men and women who tamed it. You'll meet a sheriff who faces a hardened killer in the strangest gunfight in frontier history; a...

Stories deal with an Easterner visiting the West, a small Arizona town, outlaws, U.S. marshals, and murderers.

A collection of short stories with a Halloween theme by ten Newbery Award-winning authors, including E.L. Konigsburg, Beverly Cleary, Virginia Hamilton, Paul Fleischman, and Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.

A collection of stories about Christmas, by Newbery Award-winning authors.