検索キーワード： 短編小説

Blood-churning, mind-bending, and an intense thriller at its core! This collection of suspenseful short stories will satisfy your deepest craving for fear. Trapped in a concrete labyrinth! Stalked by a malevolent book character! A dark, eerie basement, possessing the very essence of malice! An ambitious reporter whose questions lead to an unbelievable fate! Hunted and preyed upon by an unstoppable demonic foe! Waking in an infinite underground tunnel, a nightmare that never ends! This is just a snapshot of the horrors that are about to unfold.

In a quiet, timeless bookshop—where every shelf cradles secrets of lost days and every well-worn page murmurs forgotten dreams—the solitary Book Collector has spent his life safeguarding memories too fragile to be left unspoken. Hardened by a past filled with unnameable loss, he has grown accustomed to the steady rhythm of solitude amid the rustle of paper and the soft glow of lamplight. Then, one fateful afternoon, a mysterious young boy wanders in. His eyes, wide with innocent wonder, seem to carry an inexplicable pull—a spark that unsettles the collector’s carefully maintained reserve.

ರಾಮಾಯಣವನ್ನು ಆಧರಿಸಿ, ಈ ಕಿರು ನಾಟಕವು ಕಥೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ರಾಮನ ಪಾತ್ರವನ್ನು ಪ್ರಶ್ನಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. ರಾಮನನ್ನು ತಿರಸ್ಕರಿಸುವ ಒಬ ಅಗಸ ಮತ್ತೆ ರಾಮನನ್ನು ಆರಾಧಿಸುವ ಅವನ ಹೆಂಡತಿ ನಡುವೆ ನಡೆವುಯ ಜಗಳದ ಮೂಲಕ ಕಥೆ ನಡೆಯುತದೆ.

'ಈಸಾಡತಾವ ಜೀವಾ' ಲೇಖಕ ಶ್ರೀಧರ ಬಳಗಾರ ಅವರ ಕಥಾಸಂಕಲನ. ದಟ್ಟವಾದ ವಿವರಗಳು ಸನ್ನಿವೇಶಗಳನ್ನೂ, ಪಾತ್ರಗಳನ್ನೂ ಅಧಿಕೃತವಾಗಿ ಚಿತ್ರಿಸುವ ಬಳಗಾರರು ತಾವು ಕಟ್ಟಿಕೊಡುವ ಜೀವನಸಂದರ್ಭಗಳ ಮೂಲಕ ಸಮಕಾಲೀನ ನಾಗರೀಕತೆಯ ಸ್ವರೂಪವನ್ನೂ ಅದರ ವೈವಿಧ್ಯಮಯ ಪರಿಣಾಮಗಳನ್ನೂ ಸ್ಪರ್ಶಿಸಿಬಿಡುವ ಮಹತ್ವಾಕಾಂಕ್ಷೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ತಮ್ಮ ಕತೆಗಳನ್ನು ರಚಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮದಿಂದ ಸ್ತೂಲವನ್ನು, ಸ್ಥಳೀಯವಾದುದರಿಂದ ವಿಶ್ವಾತ್ಮಕವಾದುದನ್ನು ಮುಟ್ಟ ಬಯಸುವ ಇಲ್ಲಿನ ಕತೆಗಳು ಸಮಕಾಲೀನ ಕಥಾಸಾಹಿತ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಗುಣಾತ್ಮಕ ಸೇರ್ಪಡೆಗಳಾಗಿವೆ

È un romanzo composto da una serie di dodici racconti legati da un filo narrativo e interdentale. A causa di un ascesso terribile, un uomo si reca al Pronto Soccorso dentistico notturno. Sulla poltrona il protagonista della storia, mentre sta cercando di vincere il dolore del trapano, fa volare la fantasia. Ecco allora le storie raccontate da Pinketts: dall'horror al noir, dal surreale al fantastico, i racconti si muovono tutti sul livello del paradosso e della metafora. Per ogni dente un racconto, in un caleidoscopio di immagini, di giochi di parole, di invenzioni fantastiche.

It’s an offer Grace Logan can’t refuse: ghostwrite the memoir of Claudia Blackwood, a successful novelist once accused of a ghastly triple murder. Did she really do it? In self-imposed exile in her island mansion, the frail Claudia is finally bringing her notorious past to a close. But for Grace, the end of Claudia’s story may be more than a sinister reveal…

This collection of nine short stories by Flannery O'Connor was published posthumously in 1965. The flawed characters of each story are fully revealed in apocalyptic moments of conflict and violence that are presented with comic detachment.

The Complete Short Stories is a collection to be loved and cherished, from one of the finest short-story writers of the twentieth century. From the cruel irony of A member of the Family to the fateful echoes of The Go-Away Bird and the unexpectedly sinister The Girl I Left Behind Me, in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark coolly probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath the veneer of human respectability, displaying the acerbic wit and wisdom that are the hallmarks of her unique talent.

This is the first collection of strange stories by contemporary writer Mark Samuels. The themes that thread through these nine accomplished stories are drawn from the great tradition of the twentieth-century weird tale, and they are suffused with a distinctly cosmopolitan European feel. Mark Samuels writes about the fundamental fears of modern life, especially the effects of isolation and the dislocation that city dwellers can experience in their inhospitable, man-made environment.

自分は素直ではないな、素直になりたいな、という大人にぜひ聴いていただきたい作品です。

子供向けの童話、とされていますが、今一度ぜひ大人に聴いてもらいたい作品です。働き盛りの大人ではなくて、社会の荒波を乗り越え、いろいろなものを守るために戦ってきた大人に、ぜひ贈りたい作品です。

Originally published in 1886, the nine stories in this collection encapsulate Sarah Orne Jewett’s love and reverence for nature; her affinity for understanding complex, nuanced, and often strained relationships; and—just as her father encouraged her—her ability to write not about things, but to “write the things themselves just as they are.”

Widely anthologized, The Garden Party is considered Katherine Mansfield's finest piece of short fiction. First published in 1922, it immediately became a classic example of the short story form.

A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer—"the starched collar," as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes hilarious. In these fresh renderings of his best short work, award-winning translator Damion Searls casts new light on this underappreciated aspect of Mann's genius.

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish poet and novelist, best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. 'The Three Dogs' tells the story of a shepherd who trades his three sheep with a stranger for three dogs with magical powers. The dogs are able to help him slay a dragon and win a princess.

With the coruscating gaze that informed The Sympathizer, in The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her for a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will.

Do you like listening to Horror Stories? You believe that the best time to watch a scary film is night? Is it your life-long dream to befriend ghosts? If yes, we have something just right for you!

Accomodati a un tavolino. Gusta il tuo caffè. Lasciati sorprendere dalla vita. L'aroma dolce del caffè aleggia nell'aria fin dalle prime ore del mattino. Quando lo si avverte, è impossibile non varcare la soglia della caffetteria da cui proviene. Un luogo, in un piccolo paese del Giappone, dove si può essere protagonisti di un'esperienza indimenticabile. Basta entrare, lasciarsi servire e appoggiare le labbra alla tazzina per vivere di nuovo l'esatto istante in cui ci si è trovati a prendere una decisione sbagliata.

Stefan Zweig was born on the 28th November 1881 in Vienna, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and into a wealthy Jewish family with interests in banking and textiles. Zweig first published in 1900 and two decades later was a popular and highly regarded author in many parts of the world, although not in England. He was also the librettist with Richard Strauss of two operas and a keen collector of autographed musical manuscripts. His collection of over two hundred pieces was later donated to the British Library.

Notes from the author: The following is a short story I wrote in the Elantris world back in January of 2006. There were always a few holes in Elantris where I decided not to include viewpoints or sections of explanation in the name of streamlining, particularly at the end. In the back of my mind, I knew what happened. This story talks about one of those holes; it is meant to be heard after you’ve finished the novel and takes place during the events of the climax.