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Helen Moran is 32 years old, single, childless, college educated, and partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. She is accepting a furniture delivery in her shared studio apartment when her uncle calls to break the news: Helen's adoptive brother is dead. According to the Internet, there are six possible reasons why her brother might have killed himself. But Helen knows better: she knows that six reasons is only shorthand for "the abyss".

Remi Finch has spent the better part of her adult life avoiding family—especially her sisters. They just don’t click. Besides, her unconventional upbringing and major anxiety have convinced Remi that she can’t build a relationship with anyone. Period. When her parents plan a family reunion camping trip to celebrate their anniversary, Remi’s willing to reconnect, if only because she doesn’t have a choice. But then a dead body turns up at their campsite, and their sisterly bonding kicks into high gear.

“A sharp-witted tragicomedy about money, morality, and a family teetering on the brink. A splendidly funny novel.” —Jenny Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street For readers of Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting and Jenny Jackson’s Pineapple Street, an irresistibly...

Grim Wolds, England: Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect governess—she’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But long, listless days spent within the estate’s dreary confines come with an intimate knowledge of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family—Mr. Pounds can’t keep his eyes off Winifred’s chest, and Mrs. Pounds takes a sickly pleasure in punishing Winifred for her husband’s wandering gaze.

SF 소설가 곽재식의 소설은 당연히 SF적인 내용을 담고 있습니다. 이 단편집만 해도 초공간 도약 항법도 나오고, 인공지능도 몇 가지 나오고, 외계인과의 퍼스트 컨택트도 나옵니다.

13 Relats desconcertants és una col·lecció de contes breus que conbinen el terror psicològic, l'humor macabre i la crítica subtil al món que ens envolta.

Dopo una delusione d'amore e una brillante carriera da chirurgo andata in fumo, Fionn Kane si è rifugiato in una piccola città del Nebraska, lontano dal "circo" di Boston. Rose Evans si esibisce sulla sua motocicletta con il Silveria Circus. Un lavoro che le consente, tra l'altro, di dedicarsi a tempo perso a qualche omicidio. Quando rimane accidentalmente ferita, si ritrova bloccata in Nebraska, nella casa di un adorabile dottorino. Solo che non tutti i cuori spezzati si possono ricucire. E più stai ferma in un posto, più i fantasmi del passato si fanno vivi.

“Now offered in translation for the first time, this collection featuring women navigating societal expectations (and their small rebellions) is a classic.” — Boston Globe A spiky, edgy collection of five sly yet sensitive stories spotlighting clear-eyed and “difficult” women who are...

An insanely competitive housing market. A desperate buyer on the edge. In Marisa Kashino’s darkly humorous debut novel, Best Offer Wins, the white picket fence becomes the ultimate symbol of success—and obsession. How far would you go for the house of your dreams? Eighteen months and 11 lost...

Dan has accidentally "Noclipped" into the Backrooms—a bizarro, extra-dimensional Alice-in-Wonderland world, overrun with horrific nightmare creatures known as the Dwellers. No one ever gets out. Hell, forget about leaving, if Dan wants to survive the week, he's going to need to harness the strange game-like magic of the Backrooms, make some very sketchy allies, and carve out a little safe haven to call his own.

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born on 24th June 1842 at Horse Cave Creek in Meigs County, Ohio. His parents were poor but they introduced him to literature at an early age, instilling in him a deep appreciation of books, the written word and the elegance of language. He began his first foray as a fabulist, publishing ‘Fantastic Fables’ in 1899. But tragedy struck two years later when his second son Leigh died of pneumonia relating to his alcoholism. He continued to write short stories and poetry and also published ‘The Devil’s Dictionary’.

Трэш-фантасмагория «Красный Бубен» охватывает пространство едва ли не всей планеты и даже космоса. Почему космоса? Потому что звезда Рэдмах, великая матерь звезд и пространств, источник всего сущего во Вселенной, вот-вот начнет излучать энергию, и фокус ее излучения придется на нашу Землю. Эпицентром вселенского действа станет обыкновенная русская деревушка на Тамбовщине под названием Красный Бубен. Здесь гонят самогон, соседи бьют друг другу морды, из Москвы приезжают дачники. Но в ней-то и суждено разразиться последней битве Добра со Злом.

Maddie died. Piper refused to accept it. One blood ritual later and Maddie is back—undead, starving and nothing close to resembling human. Despite her deceased girlfriend reeking of rotting flesh, Piper decides she’ll do anything to keep her zombie girlfriend: lie to suspicious neighbors, outwit a nosy cop, and make sure the apartment complex’s missing-person flyers don’t point to their kitchen. As scraps of the old Maddie surface, so do the hunger pangs. The body count begins to pile up, and Piper has to decide what she's willing to do to keep her girlfriend fed.

As the noose tightens around the besieged city of Mariupol, veteran sniper Andrei Kuznetsov and his ragged squad of misfits are tasked with the impossible—hold the airport or die trying. Outgunned, outnumbered, and cut off, the defenders must rely on grit, ingenuity, and the brutal wisdom of old soldiers.

Two American ex-pats obsessed with the Amanda Knox trial find themselves at the nexus of murder and celebrity in glittering late-aughts Berlin in this “hugely entertaining” (The New York Times) debut with a wicked sense of humor. “Darkly funny, psychologically rich and utterly addictive...

Authors are supposed to entertain their readers — not hunt them. But after years of spoilers posted on release days, entitled DMs, and fans who believe that “constructive criticism” means sending hostile rants to our Gmail at 3 a.m., we thriller authors have decided it’s time to plot a different kind of ending where not every reader will make it to the final chapter. With alliances forming, secrets spilling, and bodies starting to drop, this book club from hell becomes a masterclass in suspense… with a killer punchline.

Nora Lange's debut novel, Us Fools, was praised as the "Great American Novel" by Molly Young in the New York Times, and "a razor-sharp critique of American capitalism" by Michael Schaub at NPR. Now, she turns her eye toward the daily exercise of getting by.

Tucked away in the English countryside, the run-down marina at Vixens Mere hosts a ragtag community of houseboats whose lives are as tangled as their mooring ropes. Harry Jones’s death dredges up more than grief: a second body in the water, hidden love affairs, and old grudges. As the marina begins to reveal the truths of the past, its dwellers unify against investigators, vindictive exes, and anyone else who tries to break them.

Dein Chef nervt, die Waschmaschine spinnt und das Chaos nimmt kein Ende? Zeit für deine Dosis Humor! Worum geht's? Wenn das Leben liefert ist Alltagssatire in Bestform: bissig, ehrlich, treffsicher. Tim schreibt, was alle denken – nur schneller, witziger und mit einem Timing, bei dem selbst Doc Brown 'Great Scott!' murmelt. Warum du es lieben wirst: Wiedererkennung pur - Du liest, nickst, lachst – und denkst: "Ja, genau so!" Knackige Storys - Satirische Kurzgeschichten, perfekt für zwischendurch. Humor mit Haltung - Intelligenter Wortwitz statt platter Gags.

Sam never asked for greatness. As a scavenger wandering the galaxy in his barely functional ship, he preferred life on the margins—quiet, uneventful, and sarcastically narrated. That changes when he stumbles upon a glowing artifact called the Echo. Hunted by rogue AIs and pulled into the enigmatic Qlank Domain, Sam learns the Echo is humanity’s last attempt to bridge the divide between organic and synthetic life.