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Much of Richard Matheson's work has found its way into pop culture: The title story became a memorable episode of television's The Twilight Zone, and more recently, Will Smith starred in the blockbuster movie I Am Legend. Stephen King has declared Matheson to be one of his favorite writers. Find out why as you listen to the classic horror story of a man who peers out of his airplane window to see a gremlin destroying the wing.

Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. They compose a secret history, both intimate and panoramic, of modern times, and offer a kaleidoscopic impression of the world within a world that is Paris.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Bonnie Wright, best known for her role as Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter films. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Lorna Sage . Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories...

This audiobook introduces Brown Dog, an ex-Bible student with raucously asocial tendencies who rescues the preserved body of an Indian chief from the depths of Lake Superior in a caper that nets a wildly unexpected bounty. Elsewhere, a band of 60s radicals reunite to free an old comrade from a Mexican jail. And a 50-year-old suburban housewife flees quietly from her abusive businessman husband and explores the bittersweet pageant of the preceding years within the sanctuary of an Iowa cornfield.

Die Texte der Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preisträgerin Sharon Dodua Otoo nun in einem Band. Über Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin urteilt die Jury: "Ein cooler Text" als die Autorin mit ihrer ersten auf Deutsch geschriebenen Erzählung 2016 den Bachmann-Preis gewann. Vier Jahre später hielt Otoo dort selbst die Eröffnungsrede: Dürfen Schwarze Blumen Malen? Ihre Mischung aus Polemik und Humor, Gesellschaftskritik und Empathie sorgte wieder für Furore. Das neue Buch vereinigt beide Texte mit einem weiteren, bisher unveröffentlichtem, einer imaginären Reise mit den Eltern nach Klagenfurt.