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「夏が来たのね」。白い病室で、女は天井を見上げたままつぶやく。去年の夏、突然の高熱で全身が動かなくなり、五感もほとんど失ってしまった彼女に、医者が告げた一年の期限が、もう目の前に来ていた。

投獄されていた父が、幾年ぶりに突然帰宅した。小学校から帰った兄の孝一と妹のみよ子は、奥座敷の見慣れぬ白髪の男が父だと知る。父のせいで学校でも肩身の狭い思いをしてきた孝一は嫌悪を抑えられず、妹を誘って土蔵に隠れる。

ロシアの医科大学に通う女学生のもとへ、ある晩一通の手紙が届く。差出人は彼女と関係を持つ男の妻。明朝十時、拳銃持参で指定の停車場へ、立会人は連れずに来るようにという決闘の申し込みだった。

明日はいよいよモスクワを去るのだ。日本女は御者と交渉し、「二ルーブリ」の約束で辻馬車に乗る。今夜は二箇所に寄ってから、「勇敢な兵卒シュウェイクの冒険」を観るため、七時までに写実劇場に到着しなければならない。

こまどりの鳴き声を羨んだ一羽のすずめが、その理由を尋ねる。こまどりは、自分達の先祖がからすの先祖と一緒に、日輪を深く暗い谷底から空へ綱で引き上げたから、いい声が出せるようになったと説明する。それを聞いたすずめは、日輪にお詫びをしていい鳴き声を授かってくると告げる。

小田切大使の死から一月あまり、「私」とＳ夫人のもとへ、大使の妹・久子から奇妙な依頼が舞い込む。兄の遺骨がすりかえられたかもしれないというのだ。手がかりは、生前の約束で遺骨を頂いたと告げる見知らぬ女の手紙と、暴風雨の日に納骨堂を訪れた美男の夫を連れた夫婦者。

大金持ちの商人の死後、財産をすべて受け継いだ息子は、お札で凧をこしらえたり、金貨で水切り遊びをしたりと放蕩の限りを尽くし、とうとう四シリングと、スリッパ一足に古い寝巻一つだけになってしまう。

In the blind spots of creation, ancient things stir. They’ve been waiting for you… A sinkhole opened in my basement… and there’s a door inside. I put a camera on my cat. The footage haunts me. The construction workers on my street only come out at night, and they aren’t fixing the roads… My trail cam recorded something impossible. When the bell in this tower rings, the door unlocks. Each time, there is a different, more terrible world waiting on the other side.

Enter a house where a mirror steals a boy's life. Witness the fall of a masked healer, no longer saviour nor myth—but something far worse. Feel the pounding hooves of a headless rider hunting beneath a blood-stained sky. Walk the forests where something horned watches from between the trees. Answer the call of a towering, mechanical entity—a bone-chilling echo of urban legend that distorts reality itself. Gods battle and fall. Knights betrayed by their kings rise from stone for vengeance. Sisters slaughter. Faith fractures. Reality glitches. And somewhere—behind it all—something ancient waits.

Mature listeners seeking an easy-to-listen book with a dignified, respectful design. No patronizing language. No cartoonish clip art. Just a high-quality audiobook that feels good in your hands.

Welcome to the Broken Brain Mental Institution, where we’ve collected the world's most deranged minds, from the criminally insane to the mentally disturbed and everything in between. You’ll begin your tour with a foreword by Clay McLeod Chapman and continue through fourteen rooms, each containing unimaginable horrors from today’s most talented authors. Inside you’ll find abandoned institutions and haunted sanitariums alongside modern clinics filled with unethical experiments and inhumane treatments that are sure to test the limits of your sanity.

La antología que rinde homenaje a la obra periodística de Gabriel García Márquez. «No quiero que se me recuerde por Cien años de soledad, ni por el premio Nobel, sino por el periódico. [...] Nací periodista y hoy me siento más reportero que nunca. Lo llevo en la sangre, me tira»...

Get reacquainted with lust with Bussel's latest collection . . . This time around, award-winning erotica maven Rachel Kramer Bussel delves into her own archive of sexy tales from the past twenty-five years to bring us Lap Dance Lust: A Collection of Erotic Stories. Featuring Bussel's most...

人気作家夢の競演！ その大陸では、帝俊という神が崇められている。 帝俊は鳥の姿で世に現れ、泥の海から山河を造り、生きとし生けるものを生みだした。

Discover bedtime stories for adults that gently quiet the mind, and sleep stories for adults that carry you towards peaceful sleep through beautiful landscapes, timeless places and gentle reflection. Welcome to Gardens Before Dreams, a calming collection of five immersive bedtime stories created for slow evenings and restful nights. Each story invites you to leave behind the demands of the day and wander through peaceful gardens, coastlines, forests and ancient temples where time slows and stillness quietly unfolds. Walk beneath drifting cherry blossoms in Under the Sakura Moon.

Die Hörbuchbox „Wunderliche Herzen" aus der „Bibliothek Europa" präsentiert Meisterwerke der Literatur und Philosophie in großer Vielfalt der Genres, Themen und Epochen. Lewis Carrolls „Alice im Wunderland" ist und bleibt ein fantasiereicher, verrückter Klassiker für Kinder jeden Alters. Im naturalistischen Drama „Fräulein Julie" von August Strindberg lässt der Schwede den Sprengstoff des Herzens und den Sprengstoff des Klassenkampfes effektvoll explodieren.

The Thirteen Ghastly Tales in this short story collection represent over a decade of macabre musings by award-winning horror and suspense author, B.D. Prince—many inspired by the imagined terrors of adolescence, some based on real-life horrors, others triggered by story prompts posed by anthology calls.

People ask: “Why do you use photographic prompts when you write short stories and flash fiction?” Larry Sultan, an American photographer from the San Fernando Valley in California, provides one answer: “Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures and then we look at them later and we say, ‘Isn't this a great family?' So photography is instrumental in creating family not only as a memento, a souvenir, but also a kind of mythology.

At Moran & Moran, James Moran deals in antiques touched by the supernatural. When the dead come calling, he is the one left to answer. Join James as he investigates a haunted microphone shadowed by a long-buried betrayal, encounters a soul drifting through its own home in denial of its fate, and confronts a vengeful spirit hidden inside an exquisite Japanese doll that turns love into violent fury.

At Moran & Moran, James Moran trades in relics that pulse with the echoes of the past. When the dead refuse to let go, he is the one who must uncover why. Join James as he stumbles into a dying town where the dead still hold the living hostage, contends with a haunted typewriter that turns his shop upside down in ways he never expected, and comes face to face with the ghost of a literary legend whose identity may not be all it seems.