WAt the Edge of Waking is a collection of fantasy short stories by Holly Phillips. It was first published as an ebook by Prime Books in April 2012, with a trade paperback edition following in September of the same year.
WBattleborn (2012) is a short story collection by American author Claire Vaye Watkins.
WThe Best American Short Stories 2012, a volume in the Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Tom Perotta.
WThe Best Horror of the Year is a series of horror fiction anthologies edited by Ellen Datlow. The series is published by Night Shade Books. The format of the series is a collection of horror stories that vary in topic, contributed by multiple authors. A new volume has been released yearly since 2009.
WSherman Joseph Alexie Jr. is a Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington.
WA Blink of the Screen is a 2012 short fiction anthology by Terry Pratchett. Spanning the author's entire career, the collection contains almost all of his short fiction, whether or not set in the Discworld.
WDear Life is a short story collection by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published in 2012 by McClelland and Stewart.
WThe Demigod Diaries is a collection of short stories relating to The Heroes of Olympus book series.
WEverything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club is a collection of short stories by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, published in 2012 by Cinco Puntos Press.
WExotic Gothic is an anthology series of original short fiction and novel excerpts in the gothic, horror and fantasy genres. A recipient of the World Fantasy Award and Shirley Jackson Awards, it is conceptualized and edited by Danel Olson, a professor of English at Lone Star College in Texas.
WThe Grantchester Mysteries is a series of crime fiction books of short stories by the British author James Runcie, beginning during the 1950s in Grantchester, a village near Cambridge in England. The books feature the clergyman-detective Canon Sidney Chambers, an Honorary Canon of Ely Cathedral.
WThe Lives of Things is a short story collection by Portuguese novelist and Nobel-prize winner Jose Saramago. It was originally published in 1978 in Portuguese under the title Objecto Quase. This article refers to the English translation by Giovanni Pontiero, published by Verso in 2012.
WNebula Awards Showcase 2012 is an anthology of science fiction short works edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel. It was first published in trade paperback by Pyr in May 2012.
WRevenge of the Vinyl Cafe (2012) is Stuart McLean's fifth book of stories that first aired on the CBC Radio program The Vinyl Cafe. It debuted at #1 in The Globe and Mail’s bestseller list. It is the only book in the Vinyl Cafe series to have its own theme music, selected by CBC Radio listeners and written by Ottawa band The PepTides Stories included in Revenge of the Vinyl Cafe:"Hello Monster" "Annie’s Turn" "Macaulay’s Mountain" "Tour de Dave" "The House Next Door" "Summer of Stars" "Rhoda’s Revenge" "Fish Head" "Rosemary Honey" "The Haunted House of Cupcakes" "Midnight in the Garden of Envy" "The Black Beast of Margaree" "Curse of the Crayfish" "Whatever Happened to Johnny Flowers?" "Attack of the Treadmill" "Gabriel Dubois" "Code Yellow" "Le Morte d'Arthur"
WStarters with Mocktales is a 2012 travel novel by Indian author Aditya Krishnan. The book was released online via Amazon.com on 24 June 2012 as an ebook and subsequently also sold as a paperback. Starters with Mocktales includes 16 travel stories, 3 fictional short stories and 8 literary nonfiction stories.
WSum to Infinity is a 2014 travel novel by Indian author Aditya Krishnan. The book was released online via Amazon.com on 24 July 2014, two years after his first novel Starters with Mocktales.
WThis Is How You Lose Her is the second collection of short stories by Junot Díaz. It is the third of Díaz's books to feature his recurring protagonist Yunior, following his 1996 short story collection, Drown and his 2007 novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The collection is composed of nine interlinked short stories.
WThe Tiny Book of Tiny Stories is a trilogy collection of poetic tiny, short stories, no more than a few lines long each. It is compiled by owner and founder of the online collaborative production company hitRECord, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Wirrow, a curator at hitRECord. It is published by HarperCollins' imprint IT Books. The first book of the trilogy was published in 2011, the second and third volumes were released in late 2012 and in 2013. The slogan for the trilogy is: "The universe is not made of atoms; it’s made of tiny stories". It is suggested that the books are for 18+ year olds.
WTopsy Turvy Tales is a 2012 illustrated storybook by Charlotte Boulay-Goldsmith and illustrated by Laura Hyde. The book was published by Humpty Dumpty Publishing on June 14, 2012. Topsy Turvy Tales is composed of four tales, Quest of the Head, The Girl With Liquid Eyes, Chester The Oyster and The Man With The Stolen Heart.
WTortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales is a collection of short stories by young adult fantasy author Tamora Pierce. The anthology includes stories set in Tortall, a fantasy kingdom appearing in many of Pierce's works, as well as stories set in the real world. In addition, besides gathering together Pierce's seven previously published short stories, Tortall and Other Lands includes three original stories written specifically for this collection.
WThe Almost Complete Collection of True Singapore Ghost Stories is the bestselling book series in Singapore. With over 1.5 million copies sold, the series has become a household name since its inception in 1989. Russell Lee, a Singaporean author, compiles reports, stories and interviews about the supernatural. Light and entertaining, each book, which comprises about 30 stories, appeals to both children and mature readers.
WThe Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories is an anthology of weird fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer.
WWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank is a 2012 short story collection by the American writer Nathan Englander. The book was first published on February 7, 2012 through Knopf and collects eight of Englander's short stories, including the title story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank."
WWhirl Away is a book written by award winning Canadian writer Russell Wangersky, first published in March 2012, by Thomas Allen Publishers. In the book, the author compiles a collection of short stories that examine "what happens when people's personal coping skills go awry."
WWonders of the Invisible World is a collection of fantasy short stories by Patricia A. McKillip. It was first published in trade paperback and ebook by Tachyon Publications in October 2012. The title of both the collection and the first story in it derive from the 1693 book of the same title by Cotton Mather.
WThe Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published on July 3, 2012. It is the 29th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.
WYoung Thongor is a collection of fantasy short stories by American writer Lin Carter, with additional material by Robert M. Price, edited and with a foreword by Adrian Cole. It was first published in trade paperback by Wildside Press in May, 2012. Most of the pieces were first published in magazines, anthologies or other books by Carter; the remaining pieces are original to the present work.