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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a haunting psychological short story that explores isolation, mental health, and the constraints placed on women in the 19th century. Through the unsettling diary of a woman confined to a room with disturbing yellow wallpaper, Gilman crafts a chilling descent into obsession that remains one of the most powerful feminist works in American literature.

What if the everyday world hides whispers of mystery, fleeting moments of wonder, and shadows you almost don’t notice? Step into the hauntingly beautiful and lyrical world of A Haunted House and Other Short Stories—a mesmerizing collection of tales that reveal the hidden currents of life, memory, and imagination. Each story offers a glimpse into Woolf’s keen observations of human emotion: from the ghostly reflections in "A Haunted House" to the fleeting impressions and fragmented lives in "Monday or Tuesday", where the ordinary becomes quietly extraordinary.

In "Newlywed", an unhappily married young man deliberately misses his stop on the train, only to be questioned by a shape-shifting homeless man about the trials of his marriage. In "Blood and Water", a woman recalls how she left the village she grew up in - which was run by a New Age cult - in order to lead a fulfilling life, even against her parents' wishes. And in the title story, "Lizard", a woman who has never before felt truly secure in her life admits a deep secret to her lover.

Little Oakley Art Gallery teams up with the local animal rescue center, Best Friends Furever, for a fundraiser. Emily is delighted to help in any way she can. Planning out the event gives her an entirely new focus for her blog, one that could be a real winner this time. But when a robbery sends the whole affair into panic, our amateur sleuth finds that there’s more than just art theft at play!

Emily contacts renowned interior stylist Piper Hawkins to help her reorganize her space. Piper is incredibly popular online and Emily hopes hiring him may lead to some great material for her blog. When Piper ends up dead Emily is left sifting through the mess and organizing all the clues to see where they lead!

There’s more business than Sammy and Helen can handle at Just Like Grandma’s. Sammy hardly has enough time to keep up with the baked goods that keep customers coming in, and now an affluent couple has hired her to bake their wedding cake. A new waitress, Kate, is hired to keep on top of the demand, but her inconvenient disappearances are causing Sammy to wonder what this young lady is up to. When a body is then found by the lake, mysteriously connected to all of these things, Sammy must team up with Sheriff Jones to discover the truth.

Sammy Baker’s confectionaries are a big hit in Sunny Cove, but when a fundraising drive turns into a hair-raising crime, it’s time for Sam to don her sleuthing cap again. Aided by a posse of do-gooders who call themselves the Radical Grandmas, Sammy needs to sniff out the cold-bloodied killer before Christmas day.

Reconnecting with old friends seemed like such a good idea, but when a Halloween Party becomes the unlikely scene of a crime, Sammy is thrown again into a Sunny Cove mystery! Sammy's homemade cinnamon rolls are a big hit at Just Like Grandma’s, but she feels that something is still missing from her return to Sunny Cove Maybe reconnecting with her old friends and helping a disabled man who is even more of an outcast than she is will help? The party she attends to revive old acquaintance soon takes a gruesome turn! Her best friend disappears and no one knows where.

Die besten und berühmtesten Stories von Edgar Allan Poe sind in dieser riesigen Hörbuch-Box versammelt - aufgelistet nach dem Datum ihres Entstehens! Poes erste Geschichte "Metzengerstein" aus dem Jahre 1832 ist ebenso dabei wie eine seiner letzten, "Hoppfrosch" aus dem Jahre 1849, kurz vor seinem Tode. 30 Meisterwerke aus der Feder des Großmeisters der dunklen Romantik.

A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he’s after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia, no belief, no claim to objectivity, is immune to the distortions of human perception. Here, self-deception is a means of justifying our most inhuman impulses—whether we know it or not.

For the irreverent among us in need of a laugh, Random Synapses offers an eclectic round-up of funny short stories and relatable reflections about life’s milestones and quirks. Is beer effective for pest control? What if condoms set the mood with their own soundtrack? Are washable crayons tantamount to child abuse? What’s the secret to that speed-walking hip sway? And what’s that furry green thing growing at the back of the fridge?? If you’ve ever appreciated an essay by Dave Barry, you’ll be delighted by Bob Schellenberg’s careening thoughts on the seemingly mundane and everyday.

The Triumph of the Egg is a fictional panorama of a great region of our country, unfolded by a writer who—to quote the New York Times—“depicts life in the Midwest as Dostoevsky pictured the many colored life of Russia, with almost as wonderful a touch of genius, with a more concentrated...

2022 SOVAS Award Finalist for Audiobook Narration—Short Story Anthology—Best Voiceover and Author Performance—Best Voiceover BETRAYAL. PASSION. MAGIC. And…WIGS! From the sparkling imagination of gifted entertainer Keke Palmer and her iconic alter ego, Lady Miss Jacqueline, comes a...

When Ava Barnes’s boyfriend, Justin, proposes after a whirlwind romance, the young couple embarks on a quest that will test their love. For generations, engaged couples in Ava’s family have traveled into the Everglades to retrieve the egg of the magnificent frigate bird in order to bake it into a marriage cake. Those who succeed live happily ever after, while those who fail are destined for heartbreak. With Ava’s beloved grandmother gravely ill, never has the marriage tradition meant so much.

He is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written August 1925, it was first published in Weird Tales, September 1926. Plot: The story's anonymous narrator has moved from New England to New York City, and greatly regrets it. One night, while wandering in a historic part of Greenwich Village, he happens upon a man dressed in garments from the 18th century. The man offers to show the narrator the secrets of the town.

In these four semi-autobiographical stories Fitzgerald highlights some of the absurdities of Hollywood. They feature Pat Hobby, a down-on-his-luck scriptwriter. In the course of his adventures neither the stars, producers nor, least of all, the writers are spared from Fitzgerald's demolishing wit. These superb examples of short fiction succeed in mocking both success and failure as they deliver their sting with deadly humour.

Aaliyah Richards found the strength to walk away after Nathaniel Greyson’s betrayal nearly destroyed her. With a fierce new attitude and a new life in Los Angeles, she is determined to move on from the one man who branded her heart forever. But Nate is miserable, haunted by his loss, and determined to win her back. When a devastating family crisis forces Liya and Nate back into the same orbit, the consuming heat of their past reignites, threatening to burn Liya’s new life to the ground.

Jenna loves her job coordinating epic challenges between the two ends of Britain—from Cornwall’s dramatic coast to the northern tip of Scotland. But lately the highlight of her working days are her video calls with Cameron, the charming Scotsman who helps these determined adventurers complete their journey. Their friendship blossoms, but with nearly a thousand miles between them, and Jenna engaged, they can never be more.

Read by Hugh Fraser In Agatha Christie’s Dumb Witness, Hercule Poirot investigates the very suspicious death of an elderly spinster who, fearing the very worst, had written to the great detective prior to her demise. Everyone blamed Emily Arundell’s accident on a rubber ball left on the...

La famille Dufour décide de passer une journée à la campagne, dans les environs de Bezons. Sur les berges de la Seine, la famille croise deux jeunes canotiers, qui ne laisseront pas indifférents Pétronille, la mère de famille, ni Henriette, la fille de la famille... Cette nouvelle de Maupassant a fait l'objet d'une adaptation cinématographique de Jean Renoir.