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The Real Osamu Dazai features twenty unforgettable tales—some autobiographical, others fictional—that chart the inner life of one of modern Japan's most brilliant and tormented writers. From darkly comic meditations on fashion and identity to heartrending accounts of childhood, love, and war, Dazai's prose is both timeless and emotionally raw.

In How to Be Right, James provides a hilarious and invigorating guide to talking to people with faulty opinions. With chapters on every lightning-rod issue, James shows how people have been fooled into thinking the way they do and in each case outlines the key questions to ask to reveal fallacies, inconsistencies and double standards. If you ever get cornered by ardent Brexiteers, Daily Mail disciples or little England patriots, this book is your conversation survival guide.

Audiolibro narrado en castellano. Fitz James O’Brien irlandés a quien el maestro del terror cósmico Howard Phillips Lovecraft lo bautizó como el Poe céltico dedicándole las siguientes palabras: “Entre los primeros discípulos de Poe puede colocarse al joven y brillante irlandés Fitz James O’Brien, emigro a Estados Unidos y murió honrosamente en la guerra civil. A él debemos What Was It?, el primer relato corto bien estructurado sobre un ser tangible pero invisible, y prototipo del Horla de Maupassant; fue él, también, que creó el inimitable Diamond Lens.

Delve into the captivating world of Fitz-James OBrien, the Irish-born author hailed as a hidden genius of weird fiction. As the vital link between Edgar Allan Poe and later masters like Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, and Arthur Machen, OBriens work offers a unique blend of the fantastical and the scientific. In this collection, youll discover some of his most celebrated tales, including The Diamond Lens, where a sance, a murder, and a microscopic universe collide, and What Was It?‚a chilling story of an invisible murderer that predates both H.G. Wells The Invisible Man and Bierces The ...

Robert O’Brien loves cars. Growing up in Dublin, they provided a welcome refuge from the human interaction he found so difficult. His father’s race car, a BMW E30 M3 Sport Evolution he named the Beast, became his alter ego—powerful, admired, confident—and Robert began a quest to become a worthy owner. He completed a university degree, took courses to conquer his stutter and tried to come to terms with his sexuality. But still he remained more comfortable in the fantasy worlds of video games and television.

Our economy has tanked, our freedoms are shrinking, and social divisions are growing. Our politicians seem most interested in their own careers, and much of the media only make things worse. We are living in a country almost unrecognisable from the one that existed a decade ago. But whose fault is it really? Who broke Britain and how did they do it?

CCM recording Artists Coby James and Joseph O’Brian new podcast channel. Follow now for Hilarious stories and dialogue every week.

'All Your Days' features essays, conversations, reviews and roundups focusing on politics, culture, creativity, art, work, crisis, persistence, and how creative lives transform over time. Host: James O'Brien

A businessman discovers he has a ghostly twin whose presence may be far more ominous than he had thought.... Mischievous children learn that supernatural forces are nothing to toy with, after a Halloween prank goes wrong. And holiday festivities set the backdrop to a terrified teen’s worst fears, when his grandmother’s corpse comes looking for revenge....

Against the Wind: Memoir of a Dissident Dubliner is the story of life in the first 50 years after independence was won for a part of the island of Ireland. The times were financially tough and morally prude, with dissenters both north and south of the border few and far between. Intellectualism was suspect, and liberalism was often equated with communism. A wealth of varying and informative material and the ability to anchor the personal securely within the public domain gives this memoir a universal appeal.

In this volume of the series of short science fiction stories we discover assassins, the dangers of centralisation, escapes through time, evolving AI’s and the depths of reality. The stories in this collection were written by J. F. Bone, H Beam Piper, Fritz Leiber and Fitz-James O’Brien.

Mysteries come in all sorts, and this collection of seven short stories reflects that, from hidden temples beneath the sea, to worlds discovered through a microscope. Murderers, ghosts and demons can also be found in this collection. The stories included are: "The Temple", "To Prove an Alibi", "The Diamond Lens", "The Adventure of the Red Circle", "An Episode in a Lodging House", "How Siva Spoke", and "The Nail."

From a young age the boy was fascinated with the microscope and the hidden life that it revealed. This driving passion pursues him into adulthood, but how far will he go to keep looking deeper and deeper into the hidden truths? His single-mindedness tugs him into science, mysticism, theft and perhaps murder.

Fitz-James O'Brien, born in Cork, Ireland, in 1826, is considered an important early writer of science-fiction. His three probably best-known stories are included in this volume. They are “The Diamond Lens”, “What Was It?”, and “The Lost Room”.

Seven strange stories of intriguing optical illusions. The Diamond Lens by Fitz James O'BrienThe Devil's Spectacles by Wilkie CollinsThe Secret of the Smoked Spectacles by William Le QueuxMy Black Mirror by Wilkie CollinsThe Man who was Blind by Edwin PughA Coincidence by A. J. AlanTitbottom’s Spectacles by George William Curtis.

Fitz James O'Brien (1828 - 1862) was an Irish-born American writer, some of whose work is considered the forerunner of today's science fiction. The Diamond Lens is his most famous short story and tells the strange story of a scientist who invents a powerful microscope and discovers a beautiful woman in an enchanting microscopic world inside a drop of water.

Genuinely chilling narratives of paranormal phenomena, the returning dead, uncanny apparitions, sinister happenings and inexplicable events which make your blood run cold. Listen in the dark... if you dare!

Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is of the best "macabre" tales ever written. It is presented here in its entirety along with eight other incredible tales.

Fitz-James O'Brien was an Irish-born poet, journalist, and short-story writer who migrated to America in 1852. He died from an injury acquired during the Civil War. O'Brien was called "the preeminent writer of supernatural stories of his time", and he is best remembered for two or three widely anthologized stories that border on science fiction. Among them is this masterpiece.

There are places in America where a scar, physical or emotional, speaks louder than a badge or a pulpit or a diploma ever could. In 2008, Caheri Gutierrez, a young model from one of Oakland's most dangerous neighborhoods, was shot in her beautiful face and nearly killed in a drive-by. Until You Bleed tells the story of her journey from troubled youth to traumatized victim to community leader seeking to heal herself and her city.