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A quiet night in a local pub is shattered by the arrival of a sword wielding fugitive; a funeral party teeters on the edge of this world and the next, as ghosts simply won’t lay in wake; a shooting sees a veteran policewoman confront the banality of her own existence; and an aspiring writer grapples with his father’s cancer diagnosis and in his despair wreaks havoc on his mentor’s life.

Tres cuentos que nos hablan de libertad y muerte, de represión y pureza, de espiritualidad y transformación dirigidos al "niño interior" de cada lector. "Memorias de un niño bombero", historia de un niño que desea ser bombero, es más la historia de un aprendizaje: la de aprender a ser uno mismo. "Loïe del cielo" cuenta la relación que –durante la dictadura del loco y perverso Horzatt– mantienen un hombre mayor y Loïe. "La increíble mosca humana" es una reflexión que narra la metamorfosis que realiza una mosca en ser humano.

Jodorowsky revisa y amplía su audiolibro de cuentos "El tesoro de la sombra", dándole nuevas dimensiones y prácticamente duplicando el volumen. Alejandro Jodorowsky explica que, en su infancia, la lectura de cuentos "le impidió morir", ya que encontró un alimento que reencantó su difícil existencia. Desde entonces le gusta crear cuentos: cortos, largos, sabios o locos.

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.

Con il suo caratteristico stile ironico e surreale, ricco di riferimenti colti e soluzioni linguistiche originali, Roberto Barbolini torna con una nuova raccolta di racconti che esplorano il tragicomico intreccio fra le "basse voglie" del corpo e il richiamo insopprimibile del sacro nell’epoca della sua impossibilità.

Boris Pahor, scrittore sloveno e cittadino italiano, non si colloca nel panorama letterario europeo come autore di un solo libro; altri capolavori segnano il suo percorso creativo che ruota in prevalenza intorno al destino della gente slovena nel Novecento e alle suggestioni di una città elusiva e ammaliatrice come Trieste. La prima di queste opere è la raccolta di racconti Il rogo nel porto, che non solo lievita ai livelli più alti della grande letteratura europea ma prelude a quasi tutta la restante produzione dell’autore quanto a temi e motivi ispiratori.

A woman falling out of sync with the world; a king’s servant hypnotized by his murderous horse; a transplanted ear with a mind of its own—the characters in these 25 stories live as interlopers in a world shaped by mysterious disappearances and unfathomable discrepancies between the real and imagined, revealing the breadth and depth of Evenson’s uncanny vision.

Thirty years ago, David Leavitt first appeared on the literary scene with a gutsy story collection that stunned readers and reviewers. Just 23, he was hailed as a prodigy of sorts: “remarkably gifted” (The Washington Post), with “a genius for empathy” (The New York Times Book Review), and “a knowledge of others' lives...that a writer twice his age might envy” (USA Today). “Regardless of age,” wrote the New York Times, “few writers so effortlessly achieve the sense of maturity and earned compassion so evident in these pages.”

David Leavitt's second collection of stories further confirms a talent deep and wonderfully creative in its empathy. A Place I've Never Been explores family relationships, friendships, and romantic relationships, among characters whose sexuality is fluid or uncertain—a barrier or under threat. A real estate agent happily married to a woman finds himself in love with another man in "Houses". A man entering a bold new world of gay hookups feels sheltered from the most intimidating attentions by his more attractive, charismatic friend.

Best-selling author Susie Bright’s first work of fiction and her first collection of short stories. Bright reveals the outlier reaches of family, tribe, last rites—as well as the elegiac care and feeding of the fast-disappearing.

A. G. detesta la gente per svariate ragioni. In questa raccolta di racconti si imbatte in alcune situazioni che portano la sua antipatia all'esasperazione, dal viaggio in autobus all'imbarazzo in ascensore, dall'incontro di un adorabile bambino un po' vivace all'attesa di qualcuno non troppo puntuale. Situazioni a cui, per sopravvivere, è bene affidarsi ciecamente alla propria misantropia. Non tutti riescono però a farlo con il cinismo di A.G., che ha il coraggio di comportarsi come tutti vorrebbero ma non possono fare.

Edgar Allan Poe fue un gran escritor romántico y precursor de simbolismos, decadentistas y estilistas, fue, al tiempo que un gran poeta, un verdadero iniciador. Aún hoy géneros literarios tan consagrados como la narrativa fantástica y de ciencia ficción, la narrativa policial o la novela de aventuras llevan su impronta inconfundible. Fascinado por la muerte y por todas las formas del terror, dio lo mejor de su talento en sus cuentos de misterio, manifestando además un vibrante interés por lo ridículo y absurdo.

Though published second after Altmann's Tongue, The Din of Celestial Birds (1997) consists of the best of Evenson's early stories. They take place in a country (perhaps several countries) that seems at once everywhere and nowhere, haunted by birds, ghosts, poverty, tyranny, and the permeability of the line between the living and the dead. These stories offer a heady mix of absurdity and bleakness on the one hand and exuberant magic realism on the other.

In Dark Property, a woman carries a dying baby across a desert waste, moving toward a fortress harboring a mysterious resurrection cult. Menaced by scavengers, she nevertheless begins to suspect that the reality within the fortress may be even more unsettling than the blasted environment outside. In Contagion and Other Stories, Evenson takes his audiences into a world that is at once apocalyptic, dark, observant, and grotesque without ever dipping into static genre conventions.

Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to listeners of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it.

Audible is proud to present the first-ever audiobook recording of Tillie Olsen's legendary short stories, included "Tell Me a Riddle", and "I Stand Here Ironing"—works that transformed women's self-reflection and literature forever. Tillie Olsen's work, since the 1930s, spoke to the hard truths of motherhood and marriage, domestic life, and labor. Her political conviction and poetic intensity brought a depth to an influence that continues to be felt today.

Vier literarische Juwelen, die unseren ständigen Krieg zwischen Gut und Böse ins Extreme treiben. SCHNAPPSCHUSS ist die verstörende Geschichte eines Jungen, der von einem brutalen Schläger bedroht wird. Dieser besitzt eine Sofortbildkamera, die Erinnerungen löscht, Schnappschuss für Schnappschuss... In GELADEN stoppt der Sicherheitsbeamte eines Einkaufszentrums mutig eine Amokläuferin und wird zum Helden der modernen Waffenrechtsbewegung. Doch als eine Reporterin die wahren Hintergründe der Geschichte aufdeckt, dreht der Beamte durch.

Ci sono scrittori che scrivono senza averne l'aria. Buzzi senza dubbio è uno di questi. Leggere i suoi libri è sedersi comodi a un tavolino, davanti a, che so, per esempio un piatto di capesante "spolverate di pan grattato e pepe nero", e ascoltarlo a bocca aperta, con la forchetta a mezz'aria, raccontare di questo e di quello, senza un filo preciso, senza una meta prefissata, eppure diretto, senza sbavature, narrare miniature di esistenza, soffuse di ironia e di pacato umorismo. E le capesante intanto si freddano, mentre la conversazione prosegue e vorresti che non finisse mai.

Con su narrativa inusual, Cecilia Eudave nos inquieta y perturba al tiempo que nos ubica, con estas historias llenas de extrañeza, en el umbral, en esa delgada línea que separa lo real de lo insólito.

13 Geschichten voll Schrecken und purer Magie. Darunter "Vollgas" und "Im hohen Gras", zwei Zusammenarbeiten mit Stephen King.