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From John Elizabeth Stintzi, the mind that created the daringly bizarre novel My Volcano, comes an electrifying collection of strange and dark tales. In the surreal, often precarious realities of Bad Houses, a doctor discovers a double-edged cure for the Ebola virus, a college student loses a different body part each time they return home for the summer, Midas's hairdresser strives to keep his secrets, and a young girl develops a fascination with the trolls who harvest her father's pumpkin patch. At once humourous and horrifying, these stories will inevitably take residence in your mind.

The BRAND NEW deliciously dark thriller from Sarah Bonner, bestselling author of How to Slay at Work! Must-read for fans of Katy Brent, Bella Mackie and Julie Mae Cohen ☀️🏝️ You’d kill for a holiday like this one… Chloe has spent months planning the murder of her husband, Scott...

In der schriftlich fixierten Sprachanwendung ist Albert Ehrenstein den meisten zeitgenössischen Autoren um Lichtjahre voraus, dennoch ist er bis heute nahezu unbekannt. Gepaart mit herrlicher Situationskomik und einem großartigen Verständnis für Menschen und Gesellschaftsstrukturen entsteht so eine bemerkenswerte Prosa, welche ihren poetischen Glanz auf diesem Hörbuch in Form der folgenden Erzählung erstrahlen lässt: Tubutsch. Karl Tubutsch lebt im Wien des 20. Jahrhunderts in einer fantastischen Parallelwelt, welche seine Wirklichkeit abbildet.

Shezlez the Self-Proclaimed is an absurdist story about a poor man’s ambition to organise his own political party in an unnamed country characterised by moral apathy, poverty and heartless bureaucracy. Upon his first speech, so rousing as to attract the attention of the Progressive Party...

A thrillingly weird novel about art, obsession, and the feral nature of female creativity. Sabine is a conceptual artist whose latest show, Fuck You, Help Me, is about to launch, when her world begins to unravel. Stalked by a mysterious figure whose approaches grow increasingly threatening, she...

Margot is the child of renowned musicians and the product of a particularly punky upbringing. Burnt-out from the burden of expectation and the bad end of the worst relationship yet, she leaves New York and heads to to the Pacific Northwest. She's seeking to escape both the eyes of the world and the echoing voice of that last bad man. But a chance encounter with a dubious doctor in a graveyard, and the discovery of a dozen old film reels, opens the door to a study of both the peculiarities of her body and the absurdities of her famous family.

Diese etwas anderen Weihnachtsgeschichten zeigen auf erstaunliche Weise, was die aktuellste KI bereits zu leisten im Stande ist. Die Kurzgeschichten nicht nur den Stand der aktuellen Leistungsfähigkeit künstlicher Intelligenzen abbilden, sondern gleichzeitig auch noch lustig und leicht verständlich geschrieben sind. Auch für die Erstellung des Hörbuchs nutzte der Verlag eine künstliche Intelligenz. Die sogenannte TTS-Produktion dieses Titels zeigt die atemberaubende Entwicklung der letzten Jahre im Bereich der Audioproduktion mit Hilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz.

L'Empire du bien n'est pas un essai, c'est une charge, une provocation, un éclat de rire grinçant lancé contre le conformisme du monde moderne. Philippe Muray y démonte avec une ironie cinglante les travers d'une époque où le divertissement se confond avec la morale, où la critique est suspecte, où l'enthousiasme obligatoire dicte les règles. Dans la langue au panache aussi superbe qu'excessif d'un moraliste sous nicotine, Muray s'attaque à une société qui transforme tout en fête forcée et où la liberté de penser s'efface derrière le masque du bonheur collectif.

Follow Alice as she tumbles into a world where hats are mad, cats vanish mid-sentence, and queens take croquet far too seriously. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland isn't just a book—it's a portal into delightful absurdity, linguistic acrobatics, and the kind of dream logic only Lewis Carroll could conjure. With wit sharper than the Queen's axe and characters as bizarre as your strangest dreams, this is the ultimate escape for the logically exhausted and the wonderfully curious. Step through the looking... no, wait—that's another story. Just follow the White Rabbit.

Yah! Yah! Yah! written by Jack London: He was a whiskey-guzzling Scotchman, and he downed his whiskey neat, beginning with his first tot punctually at six in the morning, and thereafter repeating it at regular intervals throughout the day till bedtime, which was usually midnight. He slept but five hours out of the twenty-four, and for the remaining nineteen hours he was quietly and decently drunk. During the eight weeks I spent with him on Oolong Atoll, I never saw him draw a sober breath. In fact, his sleep was so short that he never had time to sober up.

Armand Bernal is breaking apart. The trials of youth become a torrential odyssey of dislocation and disorientation. In this bildungsroman for our modern age—an age of collapse—Ben Faulkner has created an unforgettable character wary of work, college, relationships, and the world at large, becoming an unstable young man moving toward an act of terrifying violence. Will he survive the gothic America of The Agonies?

Der Floh Grüter Blasius lebt glücklich und halbwegs zufrieden auf seinem Schweinebauernhof. Seine Leidenschaft ist das Dressurreiten. Nichts ist für ihn interessanter, als sein Reittier zu beobachten und die Natur des Menschen zu entschlüsseln. Aber obwohl er der Beste ist, wird ihm der Titel "Dressurreiter" von Trabbelsberg verwehrt. Also wird ein Plan entwickelt, um das große Ziel zu erreichen.

Un día Matías Pascal, bibliotecario en Sicilia, lee en un periódico la florida reseña de su propia muerte. Toda la novela es una profunda reflexión sobre la constante pugna por establecer una identidad definida y tener un lugar bien definido en el mundo.

Vienna, settembre, poco dopo l'alba: una telefonata comunica a Ruth, giovane fisica teorica, che i suoi genitori sono morti in un incidente stradale; qualche ora dopo, viene a sapere da una zia del loro desiderio di essere sepolti a Groß-Einland, paesino della Bassa Austria dove entrambi sono nati ma non l'hanno mai portata.

Hörbuch, H. G. Wells, Die unglaubliche Geschichte von Brownlow's Zeitung, Science Fiction, Satire – Lass dich von Alexander Wohnhaas in eine kuriose Welt der Nachrichten entführen, in der Brownlow's Zeitung mehr als nur gedruckte Worte offenbart! Diese fesselnde Erzählung kombiniert scharfsinnigen Humor mit einem Hauch von Zukunftsvision und regt zum Schmunzeln an – ideal, um abends in fantastische Traumwelten abzutauchen. Genieße die ironische Atmosphäre und lass dich von der ungewöhnlichen Geschichte auf eine spannende Reise mitnehmen!

בוקר אחד, באמצע החיים, מתעוררת נעמה נוימן למציאות חדשה. בעלה, אדם בריא ונמרץ, מדריך טיולים, מודיע לה שאינו יכול לקום מן המיטה. למן הפתיחה הזאת, המזכירה את פתיחת...

Il 14 dicembre 1994 non è un mercoledì come tutti gli altri a Peckham Rye, nel sud di Londra. Diana Lloyd giace ai piedi delle scale della sua antica villetta a schiera in stile georgiano. Qualcuno l’ha spinta giù dal terzo piano, prendendola alle spalle. La pioggia batte incessante sui vetri e Diana ha la vista oscurata, riesce solo a sentire il bisbigliare confuso dei suoi inquilini. L’anziana proprietaria non voleva che quella bizzarra famiglia piena di debiti entrasse in casa sua, ma non si possono scegliere gli inquilini in quella parte della città. La casa di Rye Lane allontana tutti.

Ever feel like the whole world is conspiring against you? Jonathon Fairfax can’t even get on the London Underground without bumping into someone he’s desperate to avoid – like Rachel, his first love, who demolished his heart eleven years ago. She tells him that her terrifying uncle (a man...

A couple's cat leaves offerings of dead birds freighted with mysterious import. A foreign worker helps construct a concert hall that reawakens his musical longings. A young diver hunts venomous cone snails for a lovelorn researcher. With disarming simplicity, Barrie Sherwood charts how the...

Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download. No story captures the uneasy feeling of being in a strange new world quite like Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. The beloved tale, read by the iconic Jane Asher, sees Alice following a peculiar white rabbit into the bizarre world of Wonderland, where nothing seems to make sense and everything she knows is turned on its head.