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“I LOVE this book. Not just Christmas horror fun, but some honestly original stories.”—Brett O’Reilly, author of Aftertaste Unwrap terror in Charlotte O’Farrell’s chilling collection of festive frights. In this wintery world, stockings are stuffed with something more dreadful than...

Something is moving beneath the house.At first, it sounds like an animal. Then the floor starts to rise.What follows is a fast, darkly funny descent into panic as one ordinary man, his wife, and an increasingly nervous town discover that something has been living beneath them all along.They’re...

Zeta es una explosión pura y dura de literatura levantada sobre un misticismo sucio que busca conocer cuáles son nuestros males más profundos y qué somos como sociedad. Su escritura es mágica y, a la vez, sublime y terrible. Su universo gótico y existencial se encuentra lleno de símbolos, lleno de seres sobrenaturales, lleno de electrodomésticos que hablan. Es un libro disolvente, personal, inasumible, ácido y negro. Un Manuel Vilas rebelde, pleno de fantasía y de humor que nos interna en su primera literatura a través de un libro escrito por un Kafka triturado por el pop.

Ein leeres Auftragsbuch, ein beruflicher Neuanfang und ein Sohn, der früh lernt, seinen eigenen Weg zu gehen. „Das Auftragsbuch“ ist eine autobiografisch inspirierte Kurzgeschichte über die prägenden Spuren einer Kindheit, den Mut zur Veränderung und die Möglichkeit, sich von...

La jungla del poder es una fábula política contemporánea donde nada es exactamente lo que parece.A través de una fauna simbólica poblada por hienas, lobos, serpientes, buitres, pavos reales y un pequeño colibrí llamado Kael, Sylvia Jáuregui construye un universo que funciona como espejo...

Woolton was a town where the winds whispered secrets, where life flowed like the steady beat of a drum, and the land thrived with ancient magic.But the harmony is shattered when the Goliath Corporation arrives, their machines digging deep into the earth, threatening to strip Woolton of its soul...

Some doors should never be opened. Across eleven chilling supernatural mysteries, ordinary objects reveal terrifying secrets. Haunted mirrors, shifting corridors, mysterious clocks, and forgotten passageways draw unsuspecting people into worlds where reality cannot be trusted. Each story brings...

Moonlit alleys. Clashing steel. A fugitive with quick wits and quicker feet tears through Elizabethan London, crashing into the candlelit refuge of a book-besotted scholar. As two furious gallants close in, the night sharpens into a duel of nerve, word, and will—until a gray dawn, a quill, and...

From Louisa May Alcott comes a deeply human Civil War tale of endurance and grace. On a Boston parade ground, a nurse and her nephew meet Joe Collins, a tall, earnest Maine lumberman marching off to war. Months later, in a Washington hospital, they find him again—wounded but unbroken, thinking...

High in the isolated mountain country of northern New Mexico, spring arrives like a curse. Rivers explode from melting snow, wolves cry beneath the moon, and frightened whispers spread through hidden valleys where old beliefs still carry more weight than medicine. When young Erslinda falls...

Feder und Schwert: Der 17-jährige Rilke schrieb den Dialog wohl zunächst als Schulaufgabe. Darauf deuten Korrektionen mit roter Tinte von anderer Hand auf dem Manuskript.

„Dein Platz ist jetzt hier.“ Es klingt wie eine Einladung. In Wahrheit ist es ein Befehl.In dieser Sammlung grauenvoller Geschichten verwandelt Jason Fischer vertraute Orte in tödliche Fallen:Ein Abendessen mit einer neuen „Mutter“, die niemand eingeladen hat. Ein Halloween-Besucher...

La plus corse des nouvelles du plus grand romancier français ! Ginevra di Piombo et Luigi da Porta se marient bien que leurs familles se soient livrées à une vendetta. Balzac met en garde les jeunes filles contre des unions qui se font dans la désobéissance, la passion… Dans ce récit, où passe l'ombre de Napoléon, Balzac pénètre au plus profond de la société et se livre à une véritable étude de mœurs. Il inaugure alors, dans cette œuvre de jeunesse, ce qui sera plus tard l'un des monuments de la littérature française : la Comédie humaine.

Sie kennt sein dunkles Geheimnis! Dr. Alejandro Valentino ist entsetzt, als er die neue Ärztin trifft: Kiri ist Teil einer Vergangenheit, die er vergessen will. Warum muss er mit ihr arbeiten? Mit der Frau, die seine Karriere beenden könnte. Und der er vor Jahren verfallen ist...

Before the Internet. Before artificial intelligence. Before space travel, robotics, and the atomic age, visionary writers were already imagining the future. Collected here are ten classic works of early science fiction from the first decades of the twentieth century— stories that explore...

What can you hide through a window? Annalyse never expected to make a friend through a window, but her talks with the guy who lives next to the bus stop have become a favorite part of her day. But when a sudden schedule change reveals a secret he hadn't meant to share, is there anything she can...

A Short Story from the case files of Nick Paras and Associates It gets lean between cases, so when Punk Rock Private Eye, Nick Paras gets handed a soft side-quest escorting a VIP on a spooky season tour of the LA punk scene, the last thing he expected is a tour down the dark side of the soul...

A collection of tales ranging from childhood fantasies to exploring the darkness of human existence, tales that will make you nostalgic, that will tell your story, that will shock you and those that will take you to your favorite places. Guiding these tales are a motley group of characters ranging from a side hero who daydreams about Mithun and Bacchan to kids who believe in the reality of Nagraj, Ajooba and Super Commando Dhruv. Namak Swadanusar, as the name suggests, will add salt to your plate and increase the taste of your literary collection.

This book contains 101 bite-sized horror stories that are intended to scare and unsettle you. These are real peoples' accounts of the creepy and the occult - of their near-misses with madmen and paranormal entities. Each chapter is a short, stand alone campfire tale, a retelling of a frightening or gruesome incident that has stuck with the teller, something that gives them pause to this day when they find themselves alone in the dark. These stories have been collected with the knowledge that real life is scarier than fiction. 

Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys. Stories include "No One Writes to the Colonel", "Tuesday Siesta", "One of These Days", "There Are No Thieves in This Town", "Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon", "Montiel's Widow", "One Day After Saturday", "Artificial Roses", and "Big Mama's Funeral".