Showing results for "Angels" in Short Stories

For almost thirty years, Shirley Jackson Award–winning horror author Gemma Files has consistently served up tale after tale celebrating monstrosity in all its forms: the imperfect, the broken, the beautifully alien, and the sadly familiar. Her characters make their own choices and take their own chances, slipping from darkness into deeper darkness yet never losing their humanity—not even when they’re anything but.

The Novices of Lerna introduces the enigmatic fictions of Ángel Bonomini to English listeners for the first time. Shot through with wry humor and tender absurdity, these meditations on identity, surveillance, and isolation remain eerily prescient. The collection's central novella follows Ramon Beltra, an unambitious scholar who receives a mysterious invitation to a lucrative six-month fellowship at the University of Lerna in Switzerland.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes—for the better, for the worse, for the outrageous—as a diverse cast of characters bounces from Italy to Idaho, questioning their...

""At his shattering best. . . Banks offers answers that are tough, honest, and inevitable without being simple. . . . A book that is not to be missed."" —New York Times With The Angel on the Roof, acclaimed author Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his...

A couple's cat leaves offerings of dead birds freighted with mysterious import. A foreign worker helps construct a concert hall that reawakens his musical longings. A young diver hunts venomous cone snails for a lovelorn researcher. With disarming simplicity, Barrie Sherwood charts how the...

Step back into the poetic world of Thomas Wolfe with An Angel on the Porch, a poignant short story originally published in Scribner's Magazine in August 1929. This captivating narrative serves as an integral part of Wolfe's larger autobiographical work, "Look Homeward, Angel," and echoes themes of memory, loss, and the search for meaning.

In four stories that are a deft amalgam of fact and fiction, Jay Cantor captures the reverberations of Kafka's influences on the lives of some of the friends and lovers who survived him. Here is Kafka's last lover, Dora Diamant: their love opening out with both passion and pathos as he succumbs to tuberculosis...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse comes a fascinating and fantastic collection that explores complex emotional and intellectual landscapes at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human life. In "All Kinds of Proof," a down-and-out drunk makes the unlikeliest...

Angelina Turner would heartily agree with Dicken's Ebenezer Scrooge that Christmas is a "humbug". She is estranged from her family and doesn't think much of the holiday so she decides to test her theory that there is no such thing as the "Christmas spirit". But unlike Dicken's character. who needed three visitors to change his mind, Miss Turner only needs a Christmas Angel to show her "the rest of the story" and bring us all to a happy ending and a changed heart.

Crónica veraniega de un grupo de jóvenes madrileños que intentan eliminar de su vida los sentimientos y los escrúpulos con desfases nocturnos y una actitud nihilista hacia una realidad que ven pasar de largo, en un bucle continuo. Un vertiginoso descenso a los infiernos, narrada en primera...

Un profesor enamorado, una pareja que cuenta sus polvos, un pescador muy gordo que termina en un trío con dos jovencitas, un Papá Noel borracho que se ve involucrado en un atraco a mano armada, un padre ausente y extraño que reaparece esporádicamente para revolver las vidas de todos, un par...

A man rants and raves about people’s gullibility when he encounters the Angel of the Odd who claims to cause weird events. Unconvinced, the cynic drives the angel away and falls asleep. Then, a series of bizarre incidents follows.

Aquest recull de contes té una temàtica comuna: la mort. Tracten amb profunditat el tema de la mort i no ho fan des de la perspectiva dels vius, de manera realista, sinó que van més enllà, i fins i tot els mateixos morts expliquen les reaccions dels vius. Amb un principi prometedor, combina elements reals i elements fantàstics en històries que fusionen la descripció costumista amb el simbolisme religiós del present, passat i futur.

Nearly forty years after the publication of his first story, "The Wrath of Purple," in the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, Howard Fast returned to the genre with a set of nine supremely entertaining tales. In this collection, a Vietnam general shoots down what appears to be an angel, a man sells his soul to the devil for a copy of the next day's Wall Street Journal, and a group of alien beings bestow a mouse with human thought and emotion.

In this cozy Christmas story, learn whether Michael and Shay will get a second chance at love under the mistletoe. USA Today bestseller Debbie Mason's Christmas short story featuring characters from the Harmony Harbor series...

"Show" és un recull de setze relats breus sobre les diferents realitats que hi ha en una societat urbana com la nostra. Encara que una bola de miralls de discoteca reflecteixi punts de llum i una multitud de joves que viuen el moment, la realitat segueix essent fosca i plena de trampes. Els personatges viuen situacions en mig de la bogeria quotidiana i, de la nit al dia, ja no són el que eren.

Henry Siphuncle has a selfless mission: releasing his patients forever from their distasteful imperfections. It’s for their own good. And the world’s. Even Henry’s own wife didn’t survive his disgust. Nameless has tracked him across the country to an isolated rural community, where the residents are grateful for their new free clinic. For Henry, it might just be the end of the road.

El Ángel Arrullador es el 5to cuento de los Cuentos Fantásticos del Galpón Atelier. Libro mas música del músico y compositor Héctor Garrido Bowie. Este maravilloso relato—acompañado por la música del mismo Héctor Garrido Bowie—nos narra el encuentro de una joven y un ser ¿angelical? que transformara su vida para siempre.

La historia sigue a un narrador sin nombre que lee una historia sobre un hombre que murió después de que accidentalmente se tragara una aguja y ésta fuera hasta sus pulmones. Éste se enfurece de la credulidad de la humanidad para creer semejantes patrañas y jura que nunca caerá en esas historias raras. Justo en ese momento, una extraña criatura de aspecto hecha de barriles y botellas de vino aparece. La criatura se anuncia en un fuerte acento que él es el ángel de lo raro - y que es responsable de causar estos extraños sucesos.

Relatos de una de las voces más personales de la actual narrativa española y uno de los grandes teóricos del género cuento. Ángel Zapata (Madrid, 1961) es escritor. Profesor de escritura creativa en los Talleres Fuentetaja, colabora habitualmente como crítico literario y columnista en...