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A bloodthirsty sheriff is terrorizing a small Texas town where justice has been buried with his victims. Until Nameless arrives - a vigilante whose past is a mystery and whose future is written in blood. Anyone who crosses Sheriff Russell Soakes is dead, missing, or warned. One of them is a single mother trying to protect her children but bracing herself for the worst. Nameless fears the outcome. He’s seen it in his visions. Now it’s time to teach the depraved Soakes a lesson in fear. But in turning predators into prey, will Nameless unearth a few secrets of his own?

In Bucak's dreamlike narratives, dead girls recount the effects of an earthquake and a chess-playing automaton falls in love. A student stops eating and no one knows whether her act is personal or political. A Turkish wrestler, a hero in the East, is seen as a brute in the West. The anguish of an Armenian refugee is "performed" at an American fund-raiser. An Ottoman ambassador in Paris amasses a tantalizing collection of erotic art. And Greek God Apollo confronts his personal history and bewails his Homeric reputation as he tries to memorialize, and make sense of, generations of war.

When the narrator accompanies a withered old Yankee back to his house, he is intrigued by the many old curiosities he finds around it - including precolonial furniture. One of these curiosities, an engraving, brings the old man on a terrifying reminisce about eating things that he was not allowed to have, and the narrator realizes that he could next on the plate. As blood drips from the ceiling onto the book, the narrator narrowly escapes when a bolt of lightning strikes the house, finally ending his streak of immortality.

This volume collects, for the first time, the entire Dream Cycle created by H. P. Lovecraft, the master of twentieth-century horror, including some of his most fantastic tales.

In this engaging collection of stories, Rumpole continues to deftly juggle the vagaries of law, the ambiguities of crime, and the contradictions of the human heart in his death-defying performances on behalf of justice. The irreverent, claret-swilling, poetry-spouting barrister takes on suspect connoisseurs in the art world, journeys deep into the throbbing heart of Africa, dabbles in some feminist politics, decides the countryside is a very dangerous place, and incurs the wrath of his wife, She Who Must Be Obeyed.

Author José María Doria offers an exquisite selection of tales from ancient Eastern traditions, combined with eloquent commentaries to demonstrate new ways for embracing love, compassion, and perseverance in life. With accompanying reflections for each story, Doria aptly connects their meaning to daily life.

The New York Times best seller from the author of Slaughterhouse-Five—a “gripping” posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s previously unpublished work on the subject of war and peace. A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly humane humorist, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of 12 previously unpublished writings. Imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humor and outraged moral sense.

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.

Diverse, provocative, eerie, and inspired, this collection of Jeffery Deaver's best stories exhibits the amazing range and signature plot twists that have earned him the title "master of ticking-bomb suspense" by People. With nods to O. Henry and Edgar Allan Poe, these beautifully crafted pieces pulse with subtle intrigue and Deaver's incomparable imagination.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

その頃の私は廓を歩くと、「応援団長」とか「朴歯（ほおば）の旦那」とか呼ばれた。K楼の番頭に勧められた初見世の妓は素直で好ましく、彼女のもとへ通うようになる。四か月経った頃、勤め先で不首尾があり東京を立ち退くことになるが、一年ほどで舞い戻り、新聞店の配達夫になる。

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.

『공공연한 고양이』는 이제는 우리에게 친숙하고 소중한 존재가 된 '고양이'에 관한 열 편의 짧은 소설을 모은 작품집이다. 제목 '공공연한 고양이'는 다양한 의미로 해석될 수 있다. 우리의 삶에 없어서는 안 될 '공공연한 존재'가 되었다는 의미로도, 고양이와 인간이 맺고 있는 다양한 관계의 방식들을 '공공연하게' 드러낸다는 의미로도 생각해볼 수 있다.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

「幸福」はいろいろな家を訪ね歩く。誰でも幸福が欲しいから大喜びで迎えてくれるに違いないが、それでは人の心は分からない。そこで「幸福」は貧しい服装をして、誰か聞かれたら「貧乏」だと答えることにした。そして、それでも自分をよく迎えてくれる人には幸福を分けるつもりだ。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

ある村のやさしいおじいさんが、町へ用事で出かける。途中で公園の前で泣いている子供を見つけ、家に帰れずにいることを知る。おじいさんは子供を手助けしようと風船を買ってあげ、家を探そうとする。しばらくして子供の母親が現れ、子供を連れ戻す。 用事を済ませたおじいさんは村への帰り道で雪に降られ、道に迷ってしまう。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

寺田寅彦の随筆。古代北欧の英雄譚と日常のピアノ練習を組み合わせた構成になっている。春の寒い時期、床に臥せっていた寺田は、Heimskringlaという書物を手に取った。それはスノルレ・スツール・ラソンが12世紀末に記録したスカンジナヴィアの古い物語である。また、隣室では長女がメンデルスゾーンの「春の歌」のピアノ練習をしていた。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

病気で工場を追われた若者は、ある町で汚れた風貌の少年をみかける。少年は口笛を吹いて鳥を呼び寄せる特技を披露し、それをもとに宿代を得ようとするも、町の人々は嘲笑したり気味悪がるだけで少年を追い払ってしまう。後日、若者は少年が五、六人の男に殴りつけられているのを見る。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

泉鏡花によって書かれた紀行文。5月中旬に平泉を訪れ、毛越寺と中尊寺を巡ったときの様子が綴られている。大池の畔に佇む芭蕉の句碑、藤原氏三代の栄華を偲ばせる古塚。山吹やツツジが咲き乱れる風景が見られる、中尊寺へ続く道中。七宝荘厳の柱と黄金の装飾に圧倒される金色堂など。平泉の風景や仏像に感銘を受ける様子や、旅の道中での食事や宿での体験が描かれる。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

主人公の辰一は、染め物屋の徳蔵の自転車を愛用していた。徳蔵は辰一を弟のように可愛がり、自転車に乗せて遊んでくれた仲だった。しかし徳蔵に召集令が下り、戦地で戦死する。辰一は徳蔵の形見として自転車屋に並ぶ徳蔵の古い自転車を購入しようと貯金するが、他の客に売られてしまう。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

中島敦による随筆。南洋の島で戦争を迎えた中島が、文学と戦争について思索する。中島は東京に戻って文壇の議論に驚き、文学が戦争にどう役立つか考える。しかし、南洋で文学と戦争を別物と見なしていた中島は、文学が時局に応じた宣伝手段とされることに抵抗を覚えていた。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

おばあさんが豆を煮ようと火を起こそうとした時、豆が一粒だけ床のわらのそばに転がっていく。その後から炭が竈から跳ね出して二人のところにやって来る。命拾いをした三人は友達になり、一緒にどこかよその国へ行くことに。やがて小さな流れのあるところに出たが、橋も渡し板もなく途方に暮れる。わらがうまいことを考えつき、向こう岸まで渡れるよう体を長々とのばす。