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Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.
From precious rediscoveries to gender-playful fictions, futurist fables to uncanny imaginings, here are stories by a new generation of Faber authors alongside Faber classics.
Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.

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Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like ´guilt, and guilt, and guilt´: these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom.

´But what is the ninth kingdom?´ she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. ´It is the kingdom of the frozen will,´ comes the reply. ´There is no going back.´

Sylvia Plath´s strange, dark tale of independence over infanticide, written not long after she herself left home, grapples with mortality in motion.

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´A masterly ratcheting up of tension over 40 pages; short, simple sentences that slip between the ribs . . . the story is essential reading for diehard fans of Plath´s work.´ Sunday Times

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Plath, Sylvia
Sylvia Plath (1932-63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

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