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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.

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture.

This scorching collection from award-winning author Thom Jones features his best new short fiction alongside a selection of outstanding stories from three previous books. Jones's stories are full of high-octane, prose-drunk entertainment. His characters are grifters and drifters, rogues and ne'er-do-wells, would-be do-gooders whose human frailties usually get the better of them. Some are lovable, others are not, but each has an indelible and irresistible voice. They include Vietnam soldiers, amateur boxers, and veterans of the psych ward, and more.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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大隈重信の演説・談話をまとめた作品。青年たちに向けた大隈の経験と人生哲学が語られる。佐賀藩の弘道館で学んでいた17歳の時に学制改革を主張して放逐された話。明治維新前夜に藩主に時勢を説く話や、明治維新後に刺客に狙われる話など。乱世での経験が語られるが、乱世でなくとも大人物になれると説く。

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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。

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青森市の郊外に住む男は、軍隊から帰還後、母方の伯父が局長を務める郵便局で働いていた。ある日から、男は「トカトントン」という音を聞くようになる。この音は彼の意欲や感情を打ち消してしまう。花江という女性に恋をしたとき、労働者のデモを目撃し感銘を受けたとき、駅伝競走を見て感動したとき。決まって「トカトントン」という音に邪魔されてしまうのであった。

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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.

The Best Audio Storytelling is a new collection of thirteen of the year’s best nonfiction audio stories from podcasters, radio journalists, authors, independent creators, and more. The stories within this anthology transport you to a lush garden, to life in prison, to a cruise ship bar, and even into outer space. Curated by Pushkin Industries Executive Editor Julia Barton, a longtime editor of podcasts and radio, with a foreword by lifelong audio junkie David Sedaris, The Best Audio Storytelling is a celebration of the most innovative and powerful audio storytelling of the year.

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】新聞社から元日の記事執筆を依頼された漱石が、新年にちなんだ文章を書く難しさや、それをめぐる葛藤を語ったエッセイ。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】房江は四十前後の独身男の家に雇われて行く。近くに住む小母によれば、泥棒が職業らしい。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】ものぐさじいさんは若い時から、じっとしているのが好きだった。年をとってますますものぐさになるが、みんなから愛され、終日、ひなたぼっこをする。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】老獣医の糟谷は家族とともに暮らし、貧しいながらも診療所を運営していた。