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A self-styled artist is getting away with murder in Death Valley. If all goes well, so will Nameless. In part two of the Nameless series, the relentless avenger is haunted by nightmares of the past and visions of what’s to come. Palmer Oxenwald’s hunting ground is the Mojave wasteland. His victims are random tourists and hikers. His trophies are cherished photographs of the damage he’s done. His greatest threat is Nameless. Two men with one thing in common: memories of the dead.

The ghost story is perhaps the oldest of all the supernatural literary genres and has captured the imagination of almost every writer to put pen to the page. Here, Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler has followed his keen sense of the supernatural to collect the most chilling and uncanny tales in the canon.

Z. Z. Packer's first collection of short stories is rich with unexpected turns, indelible images, and penetrating insight that belies someone so young. Her stories plunge us into the worlds of people living on the edge and to the flashpoints that make or break them, that shape their worldviews forever.

Before he was the engaging professor who brought mythology into people’s living rooms through his conversations with Bill Moyers, before he became known as the thinker whose ideas influenced Star Wars, and before his now-beloved phrase “follow your bliss” entered the popular lexicon, Joseph Campbell was a young man who tried his hand at writing fiction. After years of Depression-era unemployment, when he lived off money he had earned playing saxophone and read the world’s great literature in a syllabus of his own design, Campbell published his first short story.

The fictional world of Will Self is unlike any other. Learn, amongst other things, the dark and terrible secret of Ward 9, why you are right to think that London is full of dead people and that each and every human being is caught up in a colossal balancing act between the sane and the insane. Acerbic, satirical, hilarious and, most of all, utterly unique in imaginative vision.

The Tragedy of Errors is the lengthy and detailed plot outline for the final but never published Ellery Queen novel, containing all the hallmarks of the greatest Queen mysteries - the dying message, the succession of false solutions before the astonishing truth is revealed, and scrupulous fair play to the listener. And the theme is one that Queen had been developing for many years: the manipulation of events in a world going mad by people who aspire to the power of gods.

Previously part of a collection, this rare Ellery Queen mystery is available as a standalone audiobook for the first time. In "The Odd Man", Ellery is challenged to solve an imaginary riddle devised by three members of the Puzzle Club. With very little information to go on, he must correctly answer to his confreres which of their three imagined suspects is a secret criminal.

Here are two complete audiobooks by Denis Johnson, narrated by Will Patton. Listen to both Train Dreams, and Jesus’ Son, as well as an excerpt from Denis Johnson’s National Book Award-winning Tree of Smoke.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】秩父地方の豊かな自然が織りなす美しさを描いた随筆。秩父の山々は威圧的ではなく人を優しく包み込む性質を持つ。小暮は、それは情緒的であり女性的であると述べる。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】『分類アイヌ語辞典』『地名アイヌ語辞典』の著書で知られ、昭和期に活動したアイヌ言語学者の随筆。

The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

大倉燁子の探偵小説。女流探偵桜井洋子は、富豪有松武雄から至急の依頼を受け沼津へ向かう。列車内で不審な会話を耳にし、二人の男が途中下車するのを目撃する。沼津到着後、有松邸に着くと、養女の美和子が父の死を告げる。有松は書斎で心臓を短刀で刺され、死亡していた。美和子は父の遺体を発見し、刺さっていた短刀を抜いたと語るが……。

Hoy en día, Lovecraft ocupa un lugar preeminente en la literatura norteamericana, siendo uno de los escritores de horror y ciencia ficción más influyentes del siglo XX. Sus escritos, particularmente los Mitos de Cthulhu, han influido en los autores de ficción a lo largo y ancho del mundo, y podemos encontrar elementos lovecraftianos en novelas, películas, música, cómics y dibujos animados.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

私がいそいそと見合いに出掛けたと嗤う人がいるが、華やかな結婚を夢見ているわけではない。約束の場所に行くと、相手は一時間も遅刻し、しかも酒を飲んでいた。こんな人とは結婚するものかと思ったが、婚約した。二人きりで夕食に誘われた時には、勘定書を見た途端、彼はみるみる蒼くなった。同僚に無心されて貸してしまい、払えないのだ。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

災いをもたらすイノシシに困った王様は、退治した者に一人娘を妻にやるとお触れを出す。二人の兄弟が名乗り出て、兄は西から、弟は東から森の中に入ることに。弟は小人からもらった黒い槍で怪物を退治する。妬んだ兄は、王様のところへ持って行く途中で弟を殴り殺し、橋の下に埋める。数年後、ヒツジ飼いが橋の下で白い骨を一つ見つけると、削って笛にする。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

雪割草栽培体験を綴ったエッセイ。著者は去年の11月に信州へ旅行し、帰阪後も山の印象が強く残っていた。ある日、同僚と酒を飲んだあと、植木屋で「加賀の白山雪割草」を購入し鉢と庭に植える。鉢に植えたものは室内で育て、年内に咲くことを期待した。その後、寒い日が続いたが、室内の雪割草のつぼみは膨らんでいった。しかし、ある朝つぼみが一つ消えているのに気づく。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

静かな春の晩、一人の男が仕事に疲れコーヒーを飲みに外出したが、町は静まり返り多くの店が閉まっていた。男が行こうとした喫茶店も閉店している。帰ろうとした時、見知らぬ男が声をかけてきた。その男は町内に住んでいると名乗り、新しい喫茶店を案内すると申し出る。主人公は躊躇したが、不思議と親しみを感じて同行を決める。

Un hombre trata de encontrar sin éxito a lo largo de los años la Rue d'Auseil, una estrafalaria y peculiar calle en la que vivió durante un tiempo cuando era un joven estudiante de metafísica. Allí conoció a un anciano músico alemán mudo llamado Erich Zann, que por las noches interpretaba desde su buhardilla en el piso superior a la habitación del joven, unas melodías tan extrañas y sobrecogedoras, que el estudiante no pegaba ojo en toda la noche dejándose llevar por esta música, que jamás había escuchado antes.

What does infinity hold? Does anything or anyone get buried and remain quiet for all time, or is death just a second life that lasts forever? From traversing the gnarled roots of trees reaching from the sand like claws, to the moment where one finds out the price of justice and who serves it, to a masquerade that can be murder—this collection was created to frighten, engage, entice and, worse yet, make you wonder what awaits you in eternity when your number is up.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】『小さな町』『落穂拾ひ』『犬の生活』などの著書がある昭和期の小説家による三編の回想録。幼い頃、私の父は摂津大掾の弟子で文楽座に出ていた。

A simple writing style coupled with almost prophetic content characterize George Orwell's works. Orwell's most famous pieces include the satirical novel Animal Farm and dystopian masterpiece 1984. His colorful autobiographical novel Down and Out in Paris and London is also an unforgettable read. Throughout his writings, Orwell accurately and scathingly criticized totalitarianism while supporting democratic socialism.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】著者が、芝や麻布を中心にした過去の住居や体験を語る。芝明舟町では、火災を機に引っ越した家で南京虫の被害にあったこと。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】リスボン滞在中の「私」と密偵の白木豹二は、ゼルシー島へ向かった。目的は、島の城塞に隠された敵性国イギリスの暗号の鍵を探し出すこと。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】二郎は友人の勇とその妹のみい子を連れて川へ釣りに出かける。みい子は広い畑や蝶に感激するが、釣りの最中に飽きてしまいぐずり出してしまった。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】小学校の頃、正雄の組へ水野という女の子が転入してきた。彼女は「きつね」というあだ名で呼ばれ、いじめられていた。

With more than 10 stories from exciting new voices and a few veterans of the universe, the second anthology highlights the lives and struggles of humanity's best and worst years after system advent.

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our nation. Featuring an introduction by Peele and an all-star roster of beloved writers and new voices, Out There Screaming is a master class in horror, and—like his spine-chilling films—its stories prey on everything we think we know about our world . . . and redefine what it means to be afraid.

The American Classics Collection is a century-spanning collection of 17 classic novels, short stories, essay, and poetry by American authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Kobna Holdbrook-Smith; Nathan Osgood; Robert G. Slade; Jonathan Keeble, and more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Ernest Hemingway; Mark Twain; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Edith Wharton; Frederick Douglass; and H.P. Lovecraft, amongst a host of others.

The island city-state of Singapore harbors unique customs and traditions largely unknown to the West. A booming economy and embrace of conformity overshadow its gambling dens, red-light districts, and a collective passion for ghostly and gory tales. Now, in Singapore Noir, some of its best contemporary authors delve into its seedy side.

In his debut collection of short stories, Robert Sheehan disappears into characters, challenging the complacencies of everyday experience, often from entirely unexpected angles. Informed by the author’s peripatetic life, Disappearing Act reflects on the absurdity of human behaviour. Sheehan delves deep into his characters’ streams of self-talk and self-imposed delusions, exploring the dark impulses that lurk below the shiny surfaces of many outwardly normal lives.