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"Com uma alma incapaz de amar e de se dedicar senão à variedade, consigo numa sociedade moderna ser simplesmente o monstro. Como? Ora, como! Fazendo-me amar..." Eis como o personagem Luciano de Barros delineia aos amigos sua própria caracterização de "monstro", num fluxo de consciência nebuloso que se impregna nos cenários característicos de João do Rio, onde o bizarro e o grotesco ganham relevância. Um quê de Oscar Wilde nessa narrativa primorosa garante boa leitura.

Three days after identifying her sister’s body at the morgue, Lina receives a terrifying voice message from Maya’s phone. “Lina… I can’t breathe down here.” As the late-night recordings become more desperate and disturbing, Lina begins to suspect a horrifying truth: her sister may...

Z powodu intensywnych opadów śniegu oraz porywistego wiatru, GOPR ogłasza zamknięcie szlaków. Schronisko w górach zostaje odcięte od świata. Już pierwszej nocy, uwięzieni w budynku ludzie odkrywają ciało kobiety. Opowiadanie, które nieustannie trzyma słuchacza w napięciu i...

A simple wager. A deserted house. And something waiting in the dark. In The Middle Toe of the Right Foot, Ambrose Bierce delivers a masterclass in psychological horror—where tension builds not through spectacle, but through what cannot quite be seen… or explained. When a man accepts a...

The Leader by Murray Leinster is a gripping early science fiction tale about charisma, tyranny, and psychological control. Told through letters and reports, this thought-provoking narrative explores how a mysterious ruler rises to power, manipulates a nation, and reveals the fragile line between...

An ancient tradition… and a descent into something far older than memory. In The Festival, H. P. Lovecraft delivers a chilling tale of inherited ritual, hidden passageways, and the terrifying pull of the unknown. Returning to his ancestral town during the winter solstice, a lone traveler is...

“In Rabbit Test and Other Stories, Mills examines the human spirit with a sharp eye and a gentle heart.”—Eugenia Triantafyllou A subversive debut short-fiction collection from one of the hottest talents in speculative fiction: 2025 Compton Crook Award winner and Pushcart Prize nominee...

A Most Anticipated Book of the Year at LitHub “I am not predicting literary success for Morgan Talty, I am guaranteeing it. He is a fascinating and powerful and singular writer.” —Rick Bass, author of For a Little While How do the living come back to life? Set in a Native community in...

This collection of Buk's grimmest diaries gives an insight into the noir and brutal Los Angeles that Bukowski observed and lived so well. He was a legend in his time: a madman, a recluse, a lover...tender, vicious...never the same. These are exceptional stories that came pounding out of his violent and depraved life - horrible and holy. You cannot listen to them and come away the same again.

Two terrifying classics by “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction” (The Washington Post) Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced by the strange...

இந்த ஒலிப்புத்தகத் தொகுப்பில் மூன்றாமவன், ஒரு பழைய கிழவரும் ஒரு புதிய உலகமும், கருப்பை, நிழல்கள், சிவப்பாக உயரமாக, மீசை வச்சுகாமல் என்கிற சிறுகதைகள் இடம் பெற்றுள்ளன.

While spending the night in an eerie, decrepit, old bungalow in late 19th-century India, the narrator tells how he begins to hear the unmistakable sounds of a billiard game in the locked adjoining room. It's a room that was once a billiard-room where one of the sahibs is said to have died in the midst of a game... and is believed to have become a ghost.

Sometimes a journey can be of discovery. And in this compilation, Ruskin Bond has discovered hair-raising stories of other people's journeys taken many, many years ago. Bond describes the old track from Rajpur to Mussorie, surrounded by oak trees and colonial buildings in 'The Kipling Road'. Braving blizzards and bandits, M. Huc takes a momentous journey to Ladakh in 'Journey to the Forbidden City', while Osa Johnson, the only woman adventurer in the book, gives her awe-inspiring account of cannibals in 'A Woman Among Cannibals'.

Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified—but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot...

Vetaal and Vikram is a playful retelling of one of India's most celebrated cycles of stories. The narrative of King Vikram and the Vetaal is located within the Kathasaritsagara, an 11th-century Sanskrit text. The Vetaal, who is neither living nor dead, is a consummate storyteller, and Vikram is a listener who can neither speak nor stay silent. Together they are destined to walk a labyrinth of stories in the course of a moonless night in a cremation ground.

A tourist becomes prey in this surprising journey into the secrets of a small town.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl, read by Juliet Stevenson. In Lamb to the Slaughter, Roald Dahl tells a twisted story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a wife serves up a dish that utterly baffles the police...

Buy my stepfather's ghost' read the e-mail. So Jude did. He bought it, in the shape of the dead man's suit, delivered in a heart-shaped box, because he wanted it: because his fans ate up that kind of story. It was perfect for his collection: the genuine skulls and the bones, the real...

Leo Tolstoy ranks as one of the world's great writers, and his War and Peace has been called the greatest novel ever written. This is a collection of some of Leo Tolstoy’s best short stories and is bound to influence listeners. These heart-touching tales revolve around the themes of human psyche, history and social values. Thoughtfully compiled, this series is a great way for listeners to revisit old favorites.

રોજિંદા ક્લિનિકલ પ્રેક્ટિસ દરમિયાન વાસ્તવિક જીવન ટૂંકી વાર્તાઓનો સામનો કરવો પડે...