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Men tremble at the sound of their names while women run, their lives flashing before their eyes. They’re the monsters under your bed, the boogeymen in your closet. Every living soul fears them. They’re relentless and they’re coming to play. They’re the sons of the most notorious mafia boss, the leader of the DeAngelis Family, and they’ve just set their twisted sights on me. They stalked me through my apartment, haunted my hallways, and crippled me with fear. They led me straight into their trap and captured me as though they had every right.

A quiet unassuming scrivener is hired by a successful Wall Street law firm, but his strange demeanor is an unwelcome presence.

The title story of this collection - a devilishly ironic riff on H. P. Lovecraft's "Pickman's Model" - was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, while "Probiscus" was nominated for an International Horror Guild award and reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 19. In addition to his previously published work, this collection contains an original story.

In this book, you will find the hidden part of our lives in a selection of short sex stories, described in a real way that you can listen to at home, at work, on the road, or wherever you want to feel excited.

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective...

A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love. A book that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles...

A complete dark mafia romance trilogy from USA Today and WSJ best-selling author Siobhan Davis™. Binge-worthy romance, each book focuses on a new couple and ends with an HEA. Collection includes: Condemned to Love, Forbidden to Love, and Scared to Love.

A troubled young woman, Miss Mary Sutherland, arrives at 221B Baker Street in distress. Her fiancé, the mysterious Mr. Hosmer Angel, has vanished on their wedding day without a trace. Her stepfather insists there’s no cause for alarm—yet something in the case feels far from ordinary.

From the UK best-selling author of Abbot's Keep comes a new dimension in terror. Spanning four decades, the dark history of Church Farm House is explored within four interlinking horror stories. Welcome to the nightmare... Benedict Ashforth is the author of the UK best-selling Kindle ghost story, Abbot's Keep.

ದಿನ ನಿತ್ಯ ಕಾಡುವ ಸಂಗತಿಗಳು ನೈತಿಕ-ಅನೈತಿಕದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ, ತಪ್ಪು-ಸರಿಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ, ಸ್ವಭಾವಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಬರೆದೆ. ಓದುಗರ ಮೇಲೆ ಹೇರದಂತೆ ಬರೆಯಲು ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಿಸಿದೆ. "ನೀವು ಬರೆದದ್ದು ಸರಿ. ನಮಗೂ ಇದೆಲ್ಲ ತೋಚುತ್ತಾ ಇರುತ್ತೆ. ಆದರೆ ಬರೆಯೋಕೆ ಗೊತ್ತಾಗಲ್ಲ.

Plato's Allegory of the Cave is what many believe to be the foundation of Western Philosophy. It addresses what is visible and invisible, seen and observed versus intuited and imagined, and what is public versus private and just versus unjust. It also concerns the meaning and importance of education, the state of the soul, the conflict between truth and beauty, animal urges versus higher aspirations, knowledge versus ignorance, and on and on.

A collection of short stories by Vinayak Sharma.

"ಸೂರ್ಯನ ಕುದುರೆ" ಯು ಆರ್ ಅನಂತಮೂರ್ತಿಯವರ ಅತ್ಯಂತ ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ಧ ಕಥೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದಾಗಿದೆ. ನಗರದ ಲೇಖಕನೊಬ್ಬ ತನ್ನ ಹಳ್ಳಿಗೆ...

Jane Sagan: Soldier. Killer. Lover. Dreamer. In John Scalzi's best-selling Old Man's War series of science-fiction novels, we see this warrior woman as the other characters see her - silent and strong, from the outside. But now The Sagan Diary shows us Sagan from another point of view: her own, as she prepares to leave military life and join her new husband and adopted daughter on a colony world.

Andre Monroe is ready to move on from heartbreak, and the first step is bringing home his rescue pup. He’d bonded instantly with the playful Zeus and was already planning their first adventures. But one thing he definitely hadn’t daydreamed about was Zeus accidentally being promised to someone else - or that he might go home empty-handed and brokenhearted all over again.

A man becomes targeted by witches after he inherits some very special real estate.

Weaving tales of the everyday world transformed into an unrecognizable place, where reason no longer exists and logic ceases to explain the workings of the universe, Clive Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist. This first volume contains the short stories : "The Book of Blood," "The Midnight Meat Train," "The Yattering and Jack," "Sex, Death, and Starshine," and "In the Hills, the Cities,"

In this romantic and comic story about class, language, and the art of reinvention, “Nebraska Jack" Rigel is about to quit his Latin studies program at the Vatican when he suddenly finds himself face-to-face with the mysterious and ethereal Angelina Amadio, the famous Angel of Rome. Hired to translate the romantic feelings of the unpredictable former TV detective Ronnie Tower, Jack must navigate these two forces of nature in a Rome of late night bars and fancy villas, as he searches for his own role to play.

"తెలుగు యువకుల హృదయాలలో కమ్యూనిస్టు విప్లవభావాల గాలులు , ఆత్మాశ్రయమైన భావకవిత్వంపై తిరుగుబాటు గాలులు వీస్తున్న 1930, 1940 దశకాలలో ముందుకు దూసుకువచ్చిన తొలి విడత ' అభ్యుదయ కవులలో ' 'తెన్నేటి సూరి' ఒకరు. సూరి సామాన్య మధ్యతరగతి కుటుంబీకుడు. పేదరికంతో సహా మధ్యతరగతి బ్రాహ్మణ కుటుంబాలు ఎదుర్కొనే అన్ని రకాల జీవిత సమస్యలను ఎదుర్కొన్నాడు.

Life has the capacity of great moments and attainment, of lives well lived, fulfilling for ourselves and for those we touch. But for others life is arduous. There is no spark to ignite the curiosity, to explore and achieve a stability and a growth to their lives. Indeed their lives, in their own eyes, become almost meaningless, their sense of themselves subsumed under a myriad of problems, whether real or imagined. Seismic events in a life might crush them; the loss of a loved one for instance. Coping is difficult, support hard to find and isolation abounds.