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From Jeffery Deaver's tale of international terrorism to Lisa Jackson's dysfunctional family in the California wine country to Ridley Pearson's horrifying serial killer, this collection has something for everyone. Twenty-three best-selling and hot new authors in the genre have submitted original stories to make up this unforgettable blockbuster.

Selected Shorts: Travel Tales presents a collection of classic travel experiences. Selected Shorts is an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors. The Selected Shorts radio series is a co-production of Symphony Space and WNYC, New York Public Radio, and is heard on public radio stations nationwide.

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.

In the midst of the Japanese occupation of China and Hong Kong, two lives become intertwined: Wong Chia Chi, a young student active in the resistance, and Mr. Yee, a powerful political figure who works for the Japanese occupational government. As these two move deftly between Shanghai's tea parties and secret interrogations, they become embroiled in the complicated politics of wartime - and in a mutual attraction that may be more than what they expected.

No one captures the complexities of Appalachia - a rugged, brutal landscape of exquisite beauty - as evocatively and indelibly as author and poet Ron Rash. Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, two O Henry prizes, and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, Rash brilliantly illuminates the tensions between the traditional and the modern, the old and new south, tenderness and violence, man and nature.

『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.

A truly unprecedented literary achievement by author and editor Lawrence Block, this newly-commissioned anthology of 17 superbly-crafted stories, each inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper. Contributors include Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Olen Butler, Michael Connelly, Megan Abbott, Craig Ferguson, Nicholas Christopher, Jill D. Block, Joe R. Lansdale, Justin Scott, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Warren Moore, Jonathan Santlofer, Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, and Lawrence Block himself.

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.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

旅行先から急電によって兄の見舞いに来た道太は、しばらくの間、廓を営むおひろの家の二階に滞在することになる。姪の縁談をめぐるごたごたで、誰にも会いたくなかったのだ。その家にはおひろの姉お絹が世話焼きに来ていた。事情が許せば、彼女と同棲しうる時の幸福を想像したりするが、道太は何をするでもなしに日を送る。

【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】

『貧しき人々の群』『道標』などの代表作で知られ、大正・昭和期に活動した作家の随筆。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

1931年に発表された短編小説。ソヴィエト・ロシアに住む6歳の男の子ミーチャを中心に、1930年代初頭の社会状況、特に労働者家庭の日常生活と子育て環境が描写される。

【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】

寒い夜、太郎は車の音を聞き、恐ろしいものを想像する。一方、田舎から来た16、17歳の女中おさよも車の音を聞く。おさよは故郷を思い出す。祖父が車を引いて市場へ行く様子や、家族の思い出が蘇る。次の晩、おさよは再び車の音を聞き、祖父の車の音に似ていると感じる。彼女は外に出て、車を引く人を見る。しかし、それは見知らぬ男性だった。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

玄翁和尚という高徳の僧侶が、奥州から都へ帰る途中、人間の背丈ほどある大きな石の側で野宿をすることになった。夜中、石の精が現れ、自らの正体について語り始める。石の精はかつて玉藻前という名で知られた九尾の狐だった。天竺で千年の修行を積み、人間の姿になったあと、様々な国で悪事を働いたと言う。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

相対性理論・量子論の研究で知られ、大正・昭和期に活動した理論物理学者が綴る、フランスの化学者、微生物学者の伝記。パストゥールのおかげで微生物学は大いに進歩し、伝染病がそれほど恐ろしいものではなくなった。微生物によって起こされる病気からの免疫の方法も解明した。

As the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, Halloween approaches. Come, brave listener, pull up a chair, and spend some time with master storyteller Stephen Fry as he tells us some of his favourite ghost stories of all time, in truly terrifying spatial audio. From the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow to the tortured spirits of M.R. James, from Edgar Allan Poe’s terrifying tale of a doppelganger to Charlotte Riddell’s Open Door that should definitely stay shut, join Stephen as he tells you some truly terrifying tales.

The Bookworm Box is proud to present Two More Days, our second anthology installment. Much like the first installment, Two More Days is an exciting and unique listening experience with contributions from several of our charity's featured authors. Each author was given the same first sentence. Where they took that sentence was completely up to them.

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.

We’re all afraid of things that go bump in the night. Shadows in the graveyard, wind moaning through the trees, a creaking door in a sinister old house. There are things hiding in the darkness. And sometimes, what you can’t see can definitely hurt you.... Scare Street is proud to present Night Terrors: Volumes one to three in a single collection. A menagerie of macabre nightmares, featuring 39 tales of supernatural horror for your listening pleasure.