検索キーワード： "HUNTER×HUNTER" 短編小説

In the quiet winter of 1977 Ohio, 12-year-old Jacob lives in a small town with his distant mother and absent father. When he discovers a mysterious name scrawled on an old map of Bishop's Ridge—a remote, overgrown area outside town—his innocent curiosity ignites an obsession. What begins as boyhood exploration soon uncovers hidden family secrets, a forgotten house in the woods, and shadowy figures watching from the trees.

The Hunter and The Trap presents two thrilling and suspenseful stories by Howard Fast, one of the most prolific authors of the 20th century. In “The Hunter,” celebrated but down-on-his-luck novelist Andrew Bell returns to New York from an African safari only to find himself the prey in someone else’s big game hunt. Bell must seek the help of an old friend in order to escape with his life.

In this story, the heroic Allan Quatermain, the discoverer of King Solomon's Mines, returns to tell of another exciting episode from his life in deepest Africa. Pushed by his dining companions to relate the story of the mines, he instead tells them of a little matter concerning the loss of everything he owned and a near death experience.

Dashiell Hammett is best known as both pioneer and master of American hard-boiled detective fiction, but these dozen and a half stories both affirm that reputation and present him in a different light. Along with the full-length treatments On the Make and The Kiss-Off, this collection includes never before and rarely published stories that explore failed romance, courage in the face of uncertainty, hypocrisy, and crass opportunism.

Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his detective stories, he also wrote other short stories which are masterpieces of mystery and suspense. In some of the stories, a supressed uneasiness gradually builds up and evolves into sheer terror; in others, the story line unexpectedly changes and comes to an unlikely conclusion. In "The Beetle-Hunter", a beginning doctor is employed on a strange errand to a coleopterist.

A powerful vampire and his followers have come from Europe to the dark continent. They had been moving across Africa for months. One man knows who they are and is trying to find them by chasing them across Africa. This man is a holy hunter named Semi. Semi is a lone monster hunter and a man of God. Semi's pursuit eventually crosses paths with Young Akachi.

Nikki isn't looking for love or even a fling. Opening her bakery is her top priority, but she can't seem to take her eyes off Evan. Evan is in a bad spot due to a family curse. The Hunter men are cursed to have trouble talking to 'the one' when they meet her. Just his luck Nikki is it and she is coming to the company holiday party.

"A curious experience? said the Doctor. Yes, my friends, I have had one very curious experience. I never expect to have another, for it is against all doctrines of chances that two such events would befall any one man in a single lifetime. You may believe me or not, but the thing happened exactly as I tell it." The opening lines of Arthur Conan Doyle's story "The Beetle Hunter" promise much and deliver as only Doyle can do.

The first collection by writer Matthew Hughes, and the perfect companion to his acclaimed novel Black Brillion, The Gist Hunter and Other Stories features nine stories taking place in the universe of The Archonate, as well as four non-series stories. The stories of Henghis Hapthorn, Old Earth's "foremost freelance discriminator", combine mystery and science fantasy while simultaneously recalling the arch irony of Gene Wolfe and the sly fancies of Jack Vance.

"The Hunter Gracchus" is a short story by Franz Kafka. The story presents a boat carrying the long-dead Hunter Gracchus as it arrives at a port. The mayor of Riva meets Gracchus, who gives him an account of his death while hunting, and explains that he is destined to wander aimlessly and eternally over the seas. An additional fragment presents an extended dialogue between Gracchus and an unnamed interviewer, presumably the same mayor.Written in the first half of 1917, the story was published posthumously in Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer (Berlin, 1931).

In the world long before written history, Croh and his nomadic tribe are doing their best to survive. With their food gone and bodies exhausted, Croh finds a caldera. Through luck, he stumbles upon a pass through its rocky walls, leading to their salvation. Every tree and plant produces food, the lake is filled with fish, and Croh thinks he found a place where they could make a permanent home.

After a close encounter with a wolf leaves him more admirer than predator, an old hunter must choose between taking a trophy and finding a deeper connection.

The polar caps have melted and the east and west coast ...are under water. The corporations have taken over with their private militias and any form of healing not approved by the medical establishment is illegal. Hunting squads were created to hunt down those healers, most were captured and never heard from again. One hundred years later the people regain control and now the hunters become the hunted until the very last one is captured and put on trial, the last Reiki hunter.

Once upon a time, a princess was born with hair as black as ebony, lips as red as blood, and skin as white as snow. After the huntsman and before the dwarfs—while she was all alone in that great forest—the princess met a demon. He was hunting unicorns. And what bait could better snare his prey than the fairest of them all?

From Philip Caputo--the author of A Rumor of War, The Longest Road, and Some Rise By Sin--comes a captivating mosaic of stories set in a small town where no act is private and the past is never really past. Hunter’s Moon is set in Michigan’s wild, starkly beautiful Upper Peninsula, where a...

Skyler is a powerful opponent in the women’s boxing ring, but her skill and experience may not be enough to keep her alive after she’s kidnapped and dropped off on a Hennian hunting planet. Completely out of her element and desperate to survive, Skyler warily agrees to accept the assistance of Kyux, a Krocosian who claims to be her mate.

The Hawaiian word for ghost is Uhane. In this collection of short stories described as Harry Bosch meets Mary Poppins by one reviewer, there are tons of them. It’s hard to tell sometimes who’s living, and who’s dead, even for Danny. He’s a magnet for everything weird. His twisty cases confound the police, but not him. He’s the one who puts out fires. Unsolved murder is a fire that can never be extinguished, and Danny is determined to put out every single one. In these four stories, the lines between life and death and everything in between are blurred.

Horizon Hunters is about lives that leave an indelible imprint on the mind even as they, consciously or unconsciously, set out on a spiral of discovery to reach the possibly impenetrable for which the soul panteth—the horizon which becomes the cordis of their life's journey. In the grip of destiny, they often surmount the barriers of time and space, and go hunting for the horizon, to know that mysterious unknown which might be an answer to many of the disconnected fragments in their lives.

When a fire deliberately destroys a boat, nearly killing the occupant, Kay Hunter and her colleagues suspect a serial arsonist is targeting a small community of river dwellers. With another man dead and people fearing for their lives, Kay is desperate to catch a killer who shows no sign of...

In these seven tales, gathered from stories previously published in literary journals, Suzanne d’Corsey evokes the transcendent power of the wild places and the human heart. In these and other stories, d’Corsey draws us into the crossroads of myth, romance, and destiny.