1. Short stories, Philippines (English) – Collection 2. Tales – Philippines. With a career spanning more than twenty years, Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo has written some of the best short fiction in English that Philippine literature has to offer. Collected Stories and Tales gathers most of her published short fiction, including stories that appeared in the Philippines Graphic (1969-1971), Ballad of a Lost Season (1987), Tales for a Rainy Night (1993), and Where Only the Moon Rages (1994), as well as tales from two of her novels, Recuerdo (2005) and A Book of Dreams (2001). Also included here are her little known first novel Vida, (serialized in the magazine Mr. & Ms. in 1981); stories printed in international anthologies; and two previously unpublished stories. 
This collection not only encompasses Hidalgo’s distinctive voices over the years, but it also recalls the power of tales—especially in this writer’s hands—to draw out the most honest, most human truths.