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A 300-year-old tree has plenty to do: repairing the damage to her bark from people who have carved their initials, drinking from her roots, and, lately, tolerating two lonely bookworms who visit separately. Playing matchmaker might solve everyone’s problems. Rebecca Sky is an award-winning writer best known for the Love Curse series with more than 20 million reads online; most recently her work can be found in the Every Body Shines body-positivity anthology with Bloomsbury.

One of the finest and most influential horror writers of the twentieth century, Richard Matheson has left his stamp on the collective imagination. Here are more than twenty of Matheson's most memorable tales of fear and paranoia, personally selected by the author himself. Many of these stories...

A rare collection of stories of love, longing and loss from a region that has witnessed decades of conflict, Loal Kashmir seeks to answer the question: what happens when you cannot communicate your longing to your beloved? Loal, the Kashmiri word for love and affection, is the common thread...

In this reissue of her debut collection, Madeline Cash, the author of Lost Lambs, skewers our late-stage-Capitalist reality into a strange, but ultimately life-affirming collage of stories. Life is absurd, so is Earth Angel. A biblical plague rains sentient frogs, a childless millennial throws a...

Jason Toole is a piece of shit, and he deserves to die...Five years wasn't a long enough sentence for his crimes.Fresh out of prison, Jason returns to the only life he's ever known: violence, cruelty, and the pursuit of his next victim. He takes pleasure in harming, maiming, and killing women...

A luminous, devastating gem from F. Scott Fitzgerald. When rising author Jeffrey Curtain marries dazzling chorus girl Roxanne Milbank, their world sparkles with wit, music, and promise—until a sudden illness freezes their golden future in place. What follows is a tender, fearless portrait of...

After three solitary years prospecting on Venus, Bill returns to Earth expecting familiar faces, old friends, and perhaps another chance with Gwen. The people are still there, but something is unmistakably wrong. Nearly everyone wears a small red star on the forehead, ordinary robots have...

Lock your doors and check the closets. James Colton returns with 20 tales designed to make your blood run cold.The man who sold us the house had one rule: never leave the cobblestone path. My husband didn’t listen.I was looking through our old photo album. In every picture, a shrouded man is...

Nothing hides a crime better than a Louisiana swamp, and nothing demands a heavier toll. When a desperate woman, code-named Cherry, joins a crew of masked strangers for a quick bank heist, a botched getaway unleashes an ancient, vengeful spirit known only as Bazrog the Defiler. Fleeing into the...

A Burnt Fork Santa Claus is a snow-bright, heartwarming Christmas tale from homesteader-author Elinore Pruitt Stewart. When Elinore and her Wyoming neighbors, trudging the winter mountains, find a destitute family of wood-choppers marooned in an abandoned cabin, they become a collective Santa...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. At 2:17 p.m. in Bangkok, a nurse discovers that the world’s rules have changed. In 2029, a superintelligent AI calling itself the Guardian stops three wars before lunch. Within forty-eight hours it has ordered every nuclear power to stand down and...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. El señor Jones es un audiobook en español que reúne un relato de Edith Wharton, narrado por una voz de inteligencia artificial. Se trata de una colección de un solo cuento, titulado "El señor Jones", pensada para quienes disfrutan de la narrativa...

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s tender Christmas tale glows with the warmth of generosity and grace. When wealthy young Florence tires of glittering, empty gifts, a visit with her maid Betty leads her to a struggling family—John Morley, a fallen gardener fighting his way back from drink, his...

Meet Moti Guj, the finest stump‑hauling elephant on a bustling Indian coffee plantation—and the last creature you want to cross when he’s in no mood to work. When his hard‑drinking mahout, Deesa, goes missing, the “Pearl Elephant” lays down his tusks and takes a holiday of his own...

In a sunlit garden that harbors deadly secrets, a young medical student, Giovanni Guasconti, becomes entranced by Beatrice—radiant, brilliant, and mysteriously poisonous. As Giovanni’s fascination deepens, he discovers that Dr. Rappaccini, Beatrice’s fanatical father, has cultivated both...

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.Arthur, a weary and retired Seattle journalist plagued by decades of chronic insomnia and a nervous hand tremor, follows a faint lead into the high Cascades looking for a missing senator's wife. Deep in the old-growth timber, past a...

¿Qué es más valioso: crecer rápido para deslumbrar al mundo, o tomarse el tiempo necesario para echar raíces profundas?En esta clásica y hermosa fábula de la literatura mexicana, escrita por el reconocido autor José Rosas Moreno, conocemos la historia de un orgulloso girasol y una sabia...

What the River Kept: The Supplemental EntryBy Martin FrancomA long-buried Mississippi secret is finally coming to the surface.In late August 2026, a state bridge-survey crew operating on the Tallahatchie River pulls a rusted mid-century suitcase out of the silt. Inside is more than just decades...

The Meridian LedgerSet against the fog-choked, gas-lit cobblestones of 1925 New Orleans, The Meridian Ledger is a haunting, atmospheric exploration of economic entrapment, generational survival, and the inescapable math of regret.For decades, Josephine Tureaud has known the true bookkeeping...

The Disappearance: A Significant Event Bringing Peace to Humanity & Emmy’s Story was born from two unforgettable childhood memories—whether vivid dreams or scenes from a black-and-white television—that have lingered in the author's mind for over sixty years. As the years passed and the world changed, these memories evolved, eventually becoming the foundation for a pair of fictional stories woven into one powerful narrative.