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An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor - who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture.

"One day when Pooh Bear had nothing else to do, he thought he would do something, so he went round to Piglet's house to see what Piglet was doing." Thus begins The House At Pooh Corner, A.A. Milne's wonderful companion volume to Winnie-the-Pooh. You will rediscover Pooh, Christopher Robin, Piglet, Eeyore, and all their friends, and be introduced to the irrepressible and very bouncy Tigger.

With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated into English. In Japan, Murata is particularly admired for her short stories, which are sometimes sweet, sometimes shocking, and always imbued with an otherworldly imagination and uncanniness.

The correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer reveals, piece by piece, the painful details of a devastating affair between their spouses. With each commiserating scratch of the pen, they confess their fears and bare their souls. They share the bewilderment over how things went so wrong and come to wonder where to go from here. Told entirely through the letters of two comforting strangers and those of two illicit lovers, Evidence of the Affair explores the complex nature of the heart. And ultimately, for one woman, how liberating it can be when it’s broken.

―――【収録作品】「国民的未亡人」誰もが知るスター俳優であった夫を亡くした私は、一般人にして有名「未亡人」となった。

With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite...

Collected for the first time anywhere, the nine tales in The Egg and Other Stories highlight Andy Weir's trademark wit and unexpected twists. For the few who have yet to experience The Martian, it's a perfect appetizer. For passionate Weir fans, it's a delicious dessert.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. From his study window in Providence, a young writer of weird tales grows obsessed with a great black church abandoned on a far hill — its steeple shunned by every soul in the neighborhood, its doors sealed for two generations. Drawn at last to cross...

Fortune promises everything. Greed demands the rest. In The Rynard Gold Reef Company, Ltd., Sir Walter Besant delivers a sharp historical drama of mining speculation, ambition, and moral consequence. Set against the world of late nineteenth-century financial schemes and gold reef investments...

From the beloved creator of the wildly popular Sam O’Nella Academy YouTube channel, an irreverent and timely science fiction collection that offers a wry look at the not-so-distant future Sam A. Miller, the creator behind Sam O'Nella Academy, has spent ten years teaching his 4.8 million...

Антон Чехов — величайший русский новеллист, мастер недосказанности и тонкого психологизма. «О любви» — щемящая история о чувстве, на которое не хватило...

Александр Пушкин — солнце русской литературы, чья проза безупречна в своей ясности. «Выстрел» — напряжённая повесть о чести, мести и хладнокровии, об отложенной...

Dotze contes extraordinaris allà on amaguem la por i els nostres monstres. El mal pot adoptar les aparences més diverses i, fins i tot, mostrar-se quotidià i familiar, de vegades, com en els contes d' Aquest serà el nostre pou, mereixedor del premi Mercè Rodoreda 2025. Una celebració...

In this captivating collection of literary tales, forgotten letters, unsent confessions, chance discoveries, and long-buried secrets weave together lives across generations. Each story begins with words on a page —but what those words carry is far more powerful than ink. A grieving widower uncovers a letter hidden inside an old book. A young woman receives correspondence addressed to someone who vanished decades before. A retired postman keeps a secret he has protected for forty years.

The characters who inhabit Sarah Layden's short story collection are on the verge of change —if only they could see themselves and their situations with greater clarity. Caught in the midst of crises, they stumble toward the future without fully understanding their past. Layden’s deft, spare prose sketches worlds and lives with telling details, juggling disparate strands of identity and often revealing the deeper truths in unexpected moments of epiphany. A bride-to-be puts on her detective hat when her groom goes missing.

Winter, 1971. Grief drives teenager Michael Tedesco into exile—straight into the arms of a grandfather he barely knows, hidden deep within the sun-bleached isolation of the Florida Keys. At first glance, the island feels like paradise. But paradise has a memory. The locals watch too closely. Speak too little. And when they do speak, it's only in hushed warnings—stories of Naia Tomes, a witch who once stalked the island… a woman said to have fed on human flesh before the newcomers put her down. Buried. Forgotten.

Retirement has left me adrift. Basketball was my everything, besides Ava and Alana. But now, as I prepare to become an aunt, my world is turned on its head. Alana's pregnancy fills me with joy for my best friends, but it also stirs a deep longing in me for a family of my own. I throw myself into work as a sports commentator, but when I see Dana for the first time, a primal urge takes hold of me.

12 warme verhalen nemen je mee naar het Franse platteland, Nederlandse dorpen en gezellige steden. Ontdek ontmoetingen en belevenissen vol vreugde en verdriet, perfect voor de winteravonden. Geniet van je Kerst.

Ria Tuenter's verhalenbundel Kwijt biedt een intieme blik in de wereld van een moeder met dementie, met zowel ontroerende als humoristische verhalen over troost en liefde.

Ги де Мопассан — непревзойдённый мастер французской новеллы, виртуоз неожиданной развязки. «Драгоценности» — ироничная и горькая история о супружестве...