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The Beast with Five Fingers is a masterwork of early 20th-century supernatural horror, where intellect, skepticism, and rational explanation steadily erode under the pressure of something that should not exist. Set within shadowed libraries, lonely houses, and candlelit rooms, the story follows a man of science confronted by an entity that moves with purpose, memory, and malice—yet defies every known law of nature.

Step into the visionary imagination of Ray Bradbury with this powerful collection of classic science fiction and speculative tales that helped define the Golden Age of the genre. The Selected Works of Ray Bradbury brings together seven unforgettable short stories that explore humanity’s hopes, fears, and moral crossroads against the vast backdrop of space, time, and the unknown.

In Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, Hans Christian Andersen offers one of his most mature and quietly devastating tales—a reflective allegory about love, art, and the cost of mistaking appearance for substance.

These threesome sex stories feature age gap dynamics where younger women get pleasured by older men; where mature women show younger men how it’s done; where husbands and wives invite a third party to join them in cuckold and cuckquean dynamics; where younger friends join more experienced men and women to be shown a thing or two.

A collection of nine gothic tales and poetry to haunt the darkest of nights. From the distant past to the far-off future, horrors lurk and there are no happy endings. Pirates, witches, ghosts, cryptids, and darkness: what will you find waiting for you beyond the smoke and shadow?

There is something quite special about this fine collection of tales of terror from the Sceptered Isle, each and every one crafted in the dead of the night by twisted, fevered minds, who have brought crawling and slithering to life the darkest denizens of the blackest shadows to terrify those brave souls amongst you who are brave enough to listen...

Five billionaires. Five deals inked in precision, power, and control. Love was never part of the contract—until it was the only term that mattered. An undocumented woman agrees to a paper marriage to escape deportation—only to find safety can feel more dangerous than fear. A billionaire playboy hires a prim librarian to protect his inheritance, discovering that virtue can be the cruelest temptation. A ruthless CEO silences his most outspoken critic with a scandalous marriage-for-PR, but every lie they tell the press becomes a truth their bodies can’t deny.

Um ihr Einkommen aufzubessern, jobbt die Studentin Sina auf dem Dresdner Striezelmarkt. Als sie eines Abends von drei ungehobelten Kerlen bedrängt wird, kommt ihr ein mysteriöser Fremder zu Hilfe. Was sie nicht ahnt – ihr Retter Jakob ist ein Vampir. Dieser ist so fasziniert von der jungen Frau, dass er einen folgenschweren Fehler begeht und sich daher aus ihrer Erinnerung löschen muss. Am nächsten Morgen kann sich Sina nicht mehr an ihren Retter erinnern. Dafür verfolgen sie lebhafte Träume, die ein ganz anderes Bild von den schrecklichen Ereignissen der Nacht zeichnen.

In der Stilistik Thomas Manns liegt dieses markant-prägnant-charmante Element, das einen sofort in seinen Bann zieht. „Gefallen" erzählt die Geschichte eines jungen Mannes, der in starke Verwunderung und Verwirrung darüber gerät, dass eine Schauspielerin, für die er schwärmt, sich nicht abgeneigt zeigt mit einem langweiligen Biedermann wie ihm Zeit zu verbringen und sogar fast eine Art liebevolle Beziehung zu führen, aber alles übermäßig Schöne muss auch mal ein Ende haben.

Pasión sin límites nos ofrece una gran variedad de relatos para adultos calientes y apasionados. La lujuria aparece como el motor común de las fantasías de una viajera en tren, de dos extraños que se cruzan en una caballeriza, de romances entre personas de distintas edades o en lugares insospechados... Adéntrate a conocer todas las posibilidades.

Stephen P H Butler Leacock FRSC was born on 30th December 1869 in Swanmore, near Southampton, England, the third of eleven children. The family emigrated to Canada in 1876, settling on a 100-acre farm in Sutton, Ontario. Although he had already published several humorous pieces it was only in 1910 that these works were collected and published and turned him into a commercially successful writer. Volume after volume now appeared almost annually and it was often said that more people had heard of him than of Canada. Stephen Leacock died on 28th March 1944 of throat cancer in Toronto, Canada.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.

Short Story Collection from La Sa Ra - Ezhuthin Pirappu, Dhaakshayani, Manni, Paarkadal, Sumangalyan, Varigal, Mahabali லா ச ராவின் சிறுகதை தொகுப்பு - எழுத்தின் பிறப்பு, தாக்ஷாயணி, மன்னி...

Corey is new to Clydebank, a small town where the "Clydebank Welcome" means getting beat up. Blistering his hands mowing lawns to buy his first guitar, Corey’s lonely world shifts when he encounters Shadow, a Maine Coon with hypnotic turquoise eyes and a terrifying, magical power hidden in the town's uncultivated gully. Inspired by the dualities of Robert Frost’s poem Fire and Ice, this story explores a world where souls can burn with rage or freeze from grief.

Winds of Change (and a whisper) is a collection of 20 short stories by Edward P.G.Field. The collection begins with a few tales, some satirical, responding to winds of change blowing through North America. Satire is not always amusing; but whether we laugh or wince, hopefully there is fresh perspective—a gentle whisper.

There are No Grown-Ups is a collection of short stories about life in a small town. But this isn't just any town. This is Malton. Malton is where many of us grew up. A town that has nothing to say and nowhere to go and is where most of these stories originated. Read by Author, Kevin Mangold.

Michael Connelly, le roi du thriller contemporain écrit, dans son best-seller Le Poète : « Un des poèmes, Le Palais Hanté , figure dans une nouvelle, La Chute de la maison Usher , je suis sûr que vous l'avez tous lue. Ce poème est une description cachée du personnage principal, Rodrigue Usher » Preuve qu'à notre époque on considère encore cette œuvre comme une référence en matière de littérature étrange ou fantastique. Et d'Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne écrivait : « Un romancier américain de haute réputation ; vous connaissez son nom, beaucoup sans doute, mais peu ses ouvrages.

Ten vintage dramas on the theme of murder, written by internationally recognised authors and set across the globe ‘Murder is murder, anywhere in the world. The taking of life, the most terrible crime a human being can commit, is the same in any language, whether it springs from vengeance...

What begins as a relaxing hike in the picturesque Derbyshire Dales soon becomes a waking nightmare for disgraced barrister, Graham Solace. A strange, swirling fog has just arrived and left him utterly lost and in the middle of nowhere. But there’s hope. Upon the next hill appears to be a pub, The Crooked Stag. Surely someone there will be able help to help him get back to civilsation. Right?