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In vier Episoden erzählt Menger schaurige Geschichten, die unter die Haut gehen: Vier Geschichten über das Leben. Und das Überleben! Im Beichtstuhl. An der Bushaltestelle. Beim Zahnarzt. Zuhause. Die Figuren in seinen Shortstorys erleben Dinge, die nahezu jeden Menschen in Angst und Schrecken versetzen würden und sich in unseren Urängsten widerspiegeln.

Paris im späten 19. Jahrhundert: Der junge amerikanische Bildhauer Boris Yvain macht eine Entdeckung, die die Grenzen der Naturwissenschaft sprengt. Er entwickelt eine wunderschöne, kristallklare Flüssigkeit, die jedes Lebewesen in Sekundenschnelle in reinsten, perfekt geäderten Marmor verwandelt. Zwischen Boris, dem Maler Alec und der wunderschönen Geneviève entspinnt sich eine tragische Dreiecksbeziehung. Doch als das verbotene Theaterstück „Der König in Gelb" Einzug in ihr Atelier hält, vermischen sich Kunst, Liebe, Alchemie und Wahnsinn zu einem unaufhaltsamen Albtraum.

Zeit, Vergänglichkeit & ein Leben rückwärts – F. Scott Fitzgeralds berühmte Kurzgeschichte über das Geheimnis des Alterns, atmosphärisch gesprochen von Jürgen Fritsche. Mit „Der seltsame Fall des Benjamin Button" schuf F. Scott Fitzgerald eine der außergewöhnlichsten Erzählungen der amerikanischen Literatur. Benjamin Button kommt als alter Mann zur Welt – und wird mit den Jahren immer jünger. Fitzgerald verbindet Fantasie, Melancholie und feine Gesellschaftsbeobachtung zu einer bewegenden Geschichte über Identität, Liebe und die Vergänglichkeit des Lebens.

Now I'm Photogenic and Other Stories I Tell Myself is a collection of ten playfully strange and unsettling stories, some realistic and some surreal. The characters in this book feel alienated: from their communities and relationships, on the streets of wealthy suburbs, at the doctor's office, in classrooms and swimming pools, in their own homes and their own skin.

A stellar debut weaving a tale of survival through the interconnected stories of those affected by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. A teenage Olympic champion in Krakow, a stripper in New York, an American professor at Yale, a tech executive, and a doctor turned undocumented nanny—in a stunning...

Multicast narration featuring David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Juliet Stevenson, and more Murder and mystery lurk in the picturesque English countryside in this new collection of Agatha Christie short stories. Growing up in Torquay, Agatha Christie’s love of the West Country never left her and many...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE BOSTON GLOBE, TIME, HARPER'S BAZAAR, THE MILLIONS, BOOK RIOT, AND TOWN & COUNTRY “Stories that remind you why Sigrid Nunez is one of our best writers. Her first collection of short fiction, It Will Come Back to You, is threaded with...

An uncompromising and sensually charged collection from one of the great practitioners of the short story. Squandering the Blue is Kate Braverman’s debut story collection, a fierce, hallucinatory vision of Southern California and the women who move through its heat, glamour, and wreckage. Set...

Bloomsbury presents Please Don't Touch the Body by Emily Doyle, read by Alice Dodd and Daniel Henning “A magnificent debut” (Laila Lalami) that explores loneliness and community, religion and repression, and the pleasure and pain of womanhood. By turns tender and irreverent, the 11...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY VOGUE, HARPER'S BAZAAR, LA TIMES AND BOSTON GLOBE - AND ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS FOR 2026 The first ever collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend 'Once you discover...

Riddles, puzzles, traps, and uncertainty await Melissa as she struggles to navigate a twisted amusement park ran by a sadistic clown. Will she keep her head about her, or will she be overcome by the madness that threatens to consume her?

Instead of focusing on the usual mysteries in which Sherlock Holmes is the primary investigator, this volume puts a spotlight on an oft-overlooked part of his career in detection, putting the emphasis on his role as a consultant. For the first time ever, The Consultations of Sherlock Holmes collects sixteen ingenious cases in which he serves as a last resort for other detectives – both private investigators and those from the official police force – who come to Holmes for his unique perspective and aid as "the only unofficial consulting detective" in the world.

Get the first four books in the SEAL of Protection: Alliance series, Protecting Remi, Protecting Wren, Protecting Josie, and Protecting Maggie all in one bundle! These alpha Navy SEALs and the strong women they fall for will have you lost in a world of protective military men and harrowing adventure.

Murder, fame, technological dread, and twisted desire converge in Twelve Nails in the Coffin, a brutal collection of stories that drags the reader into the darkest recesses of the modern mind. Across twelve unsettling tales, you will move from the claustrophobic isolation of an obsessed artist's studio to the suffocating depths of a nightclub where life is cheap. Each story exposes a different fracture in human nature, ambition rotting into violence, loneliness curdling into obsession, and technology becoming a quiet accomplice to horror.

For years, we've asked: "What's with you?" Usually with confusion. Sometimes with frustration. But rarely with curiosity. Now, something new has entered our lives. Artificial Intelligence. Not as a cold machine. Not as something distant. But as something quietly present in the background of our days. Helping a student understand homework. Helping a parent organize a schedule. Helping a professional make a decision. Helping someone find the right words… when words are hard to find.

What if the most courageous thing you ever did wasn't leaving — it was going back? The Way Back is a collection of twelve powerful stories about the people who return — to the towns that formed them, to the relationships they left behind, to the versions of themselves they thought they'd outgrown.

Key allies rescued from the darkness, the Goddess of Mirrors and Fate turns to the bright, new future she dreams of. The road ahead is long, but she runs to it all the same. Time is always short. A brand new [Domain] awaits capture, and that there are obstacles in the way is never in question. Sometimes, the best policy was to hit them head-on, the best tactic to take the fight to your enemies first.

Ultima problemă îl aduce pe Sherlock Holmes față în față cu cel mai redutabil adversar al său, genialul profesor Moriarty. Într-o confruntare plină de suspans, urmăriri și pericole, Holmes și doctorul Watson pornesc într-o cursă dramatică prin Europa, iar deznodământul va...

Don't start a war. Don't get your trainees killed. And most importantly, don't date them. Hunting monsters for coin was enough for me, until the King begged me to tame the wildest beast of all: a guild with no humans.

He wished for an early retirement. He got a curse to break, and a maid who watches him sleep. With his seer powers fading, Gerald left the guild and bought a cottage in a far-off town. He didn’t expect to find a demon in a maid’s dress, bound to the house and eager to please. Now his days are spent fending off her dreadful cooking, keeping the wine out of reach, and admiring how her tail lifts her skirt at the washbasin. Meanwhile, he wonders why the local lord sold him a home with sultry baggage, and how to set her free from the walls that bind her.