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Three strange, tortuous stories from the shadow queen of contemporary Japanese fiction. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities. A young woman...

There is a sequestered glen off the east coast of the Hudson, New York state, which has long continued under the sway of some witching power; the neighbourhood abounds with tales, haunted spots and twilight superstitions. But as hapless schoolmaster Ichabod Crane will discover, the wildest of...

From the award-winning author of A Questionable Shape and White Dialogues, a brilliant, anxious, and hilarious new collection. A man lends his phone to a stranger in the mall, setting off an uncanny series of Unknown calls that come to haunt his relationship with jealousy and dread. A...

Award-winning Keith Rosson delves into notions of family, grief, identity, indebtedness, loss, and hope, with a surefooted merging of literary fiction and magical realism With Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons, award-winning author Keith Rosson once again delves into notions of family, identity...

In this expanded reissue of her electric debut collection, Madeline Cash, the author of the international bestseller Lost Lambs, synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering, life-affirming collage of stories. Life is absurd; so is Earth Angel. Tales of rebellious schoolgirls...

These tales tell a different truth: slantwise and by starlight. Award-winning and internationally bestselling author Alix E. Harrow delivers a fantastical collection of stories old and new: tales about tricksters and ghosts, ordinary magic and mundane spectacle, all in the tradition of Angela...

'A WRITER OF GREAT WARMTH AS WELL AS SKILL' GUARDIAN A man and a woman, who have only known each other for a few hours and must soon part, sit in an airport café and invent an entire shared life together. A father, wearing only his underpants, hangs laundry between two cherry trees in a tiny...

Protecting someone always comes at a cost. At the age of thirteen, Charlie Quinn’s childhood came to an abrupt and devastating end. Two men, with a grudge against her lawyer father, broke into her home—and after that shocking night, Charlie’s world was never the same. Now a lawyer herself...

A teenage girl realizes her lifelong best friends are being seduced by a supernatural force, and must choose between being alone and being ensnared together. A young woman in a troubled relationship finds herself caught between two versions of the same boyfriend—one volatile, and one too good to be true. A lonely mother fears her young child's best friend is a witch. And, in the titular novella, a new widow must decide how far she's willing to go to steal her husband back from the dead.

An amateur herpetologist gets swindled by women he meets on lizard-care message boards, a dental hygienist takes a doomed trip to see a sham psychic on the Atlantic City boardwalk, a gruesome gag gift becomes the subject of morbid fascination for a grieving woman who can't stop sleeping with her...

Shelby Shaw is a rich, lonely widow who has everything in life. Now she wants to know what comes after death. So she pays Dr. Atlas Brooks to stop her heart long enough for a near-death experience. When the procedure fails, her craving for this spiritual trip eclipses her sanity and pushes her into a dark place. A place of obsession where nobody is safe. Especially not Dr. Brooks.

Ein romantisches Drama über Liebe, Schuld und Ehre in Zeiten der Revolution – ungekürzt gesprochen von Sven Görtz. "Das Schloss Dürande" ist eine tiefgründige Novelle von Joseph von Eichendorff, die zur Zeit der Französischen Revolution spielt. In einer Mischung aus Romantik, Tragik und politischer Umwälzung erzählt sie vom Konflikt zwischen persönlichen Gefühlen und historischen Kräften. Im Mittelpunkt steht René, der als Sekretär des Grafen von Dürande zwischen seiner geheimen Liebe zur Schwester des Grafen und den Anforderungen der standesgebundenen Welt zerrieben wird.

Bring on the holiday cheer in this delightful collection of three feel-good novellas from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Night We Met—with bonus recipes and illustrations, perfect for gifting! Featuring an ensemble cast. Sweater Weather: Read by Anthony Palmini and Patti Murin...

Im Moloch Paris treiben sich die seltsamsten Gestalten herum. Der prosaische Großmeister Victor Hugo nutzt diese Weltbühne, um Charaktere unterschiedlichster Couleur aufeinanderprallen zu lassen und entfesselt ein spektakuläres Realitätsbild der wahnwitzigen Gesellschaft. Sorgenlose und mutige Glücksjäger, ausgestoßene Einzelgänger, vom Teufel besessene Priester, die leidenschaftlich morden und in alchemistischer Besessenheit nach Goldformeln suchen, wunderschöne Frauen, Studenten u. a.

Eine ergreifende Novelle von Stefan Zweig über Sehnsucht, Schicksal und Vergänglichkeit – ungekürzt gesprochen von Jürgen Fritsche. In „Die Frau und die Landschaft" erzählt Stefan Zweig in seiner unverwechselbaren Sprache eine atmosphärische Geschichte über eine geheimnisvolle Begegnung. Inmitten einer unwirtlichen Landschaft entfaltet sich eine bewegende Reflexion über menschliche Sehnsucht und das Unausweichliche des Schicksals.

Read by the author, Travis Baldree. From international bestseller Travis Baldree, Tales from the Territory is a beautiful collection of cosy fantasy tales, set in the much-loved world of Legends & Lattes. There are many tales yet untold . . . 'GOBLINS & GREATCOATS': Chaos goblin Zyll is involved...

She lost her memories in the crash. Now she's inherited a manor that knows exactly who she is. Still reeling from the crash that killed her parents, Dr Gemma Walker can't stand the sight of blood, can't sleep, and can't stop the flashbacks that aren't hers. When it is revealed that she's heir to a vast island estate, Gemma follows the trail to Honey Bay to claim her inheritance. Instead of a warm welcome, she's met with suspicion, accusations - and Dean Singer, the infuriatingly handsome lawyer who's certain Gemma is lying about who she is.

Before the Internet. Before artificial intelligence. Before space travel, robotics, and the atomic age, visionary writers were already imagining the future. Collected here are ten classic works of early science fiction from the first decades of the twentieth century— stories that explore...

Her life might end in mere seconds… before she can unveil the truth. Breaking and entering was not on Gemma Walker's to-do list after settling in Honey Bay. But when Dean Singer shows up, desperate for her help, she says yes—for one reason. Dean, and whatever his uncle was hiding, may be her only real link to discovering the truth about her father and his connection to the Marshalls. Inside Honey Bay Manor, shadows whisper and memories bleed through the walls.

Brimming with his signature warmth and wisdom, the Booker Prize–winning author of Time Shelter returns with a brilliant new collection of stories. Written over three decades, The Man with Many Names gathers the best of renowned author Georgi Gospodinov’s short fiction into a single new volume. Exhibiting the author at his most playful and profound, the collection captures the peculiarities of existence across forty-one tales set in and around his beloved Bulgaria: In “A Second Story,” strangers pass their time on a train through the Balkans telling stories only to be lost in translation.