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Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner-Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.

Moonlit graveyards, ravenous monsters, and deadly reflections in the mirror...some nightmares are so diabolically delicious, you never want them to end. And now they don’t have to. Scare Street brings you volumes one and two of Short Horror Stories in a single edition. Six macabre morsels of fear, brought together for your listening pleasure. And each tale packs enough spine-tingling chills to last a lifetime. The clock chimes midnight. Your heart pounds in your chest as you start to listen. You begin to wonder...can you survive long enough to see the next nightmare begin?

Brought to you by Penguin. I was the guy who always found a way. I was the guy that couldn't be stopped. From the world's number one thriller writer, twenty pulse-pounding short stories are collected for the first time in one edition, complete with an introduction from the author. A drug-dealing...

All the delightful and bizarre inhabitants of Wonderland are here: the White Rabbit and the Cheshire Cat, the hooka-smoking Caterpillar and the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Ugly Duchess... and, of course, Alice herself - growing alternately taller and smaller, attending demented tea parties and eccentric croquet games, and observing everything with clarity and rational amazement.

From the author of The Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories - a breathtaking selection of diamond-hard science fiction. Stories included are 'The Village Teacher', 'The Time Migration', '2018-04-01', 'Fire in the Earth', 'Contraction', 'Mirror', 'Ode to Joy', 'Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming', 'Sea of Dreams', 'Cloud of Poems' and 'The Thinker'. 

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Eleanor Matsuura, known for AMC's The Walking Dead and Spooks. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Paul Murray. In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs...

Andrew Sachs reads these four classic stories of suspense - "The Signalman" by Charles Dickens, "The Haunted Doll's House" by M. R. James, "The Room in the Tower" by E. F. Benson, and "The Bus-Conductor" by E. F. Benson. These spine-tingling tales, from the golden age of the ghost story, are sure to leave you with a creeping sense of dread.

One missing letter. One eccentric inventor. One very smoky meeting with the Viceroy of India. John Fennil Wonder is an ambitious private secretary with a talent for involving himself in matters far beyond his authority. Determined to manage the affairs of the British Raj—and occasionally the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Since childhood, Jervas Dudley has felt an inexplicable pull toward the old, sealed tomb of the Hyde family, hidden in the woods near his home. The more time he spends in its shadow, the less certain he becomes where his own identity ends – and...

A ruthless pursuit of profit. A deadly winter storm. One final choice between self-preservation and sacrifice. Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov is a prosperous merchant who measures life through possessions, influence, and financial gain. When an opportunity arises to purchase a valuable forest grove...

First published in 1939, a few years before his most influential works in theatre and philosophy, The Wall was Sartres first and only collection of short fiction. The title piece tells the story of a prisoner during the Spanish Civil War, on the eve of his execution by a firing squad, who is...

Nathalie erbt überraschend ein Cottage – von einem Mann, den sie zuvor nie getroffen hat. Ihre verstorbene Tante Henrietta hingegen kannte Lewis Brownsfield sehr wohl. Und sie war bis zuletzt fest davon überzeugt, dass er ein dunkles Geheimnis hütete. Allerdings sieht sein Cottage für Nathalie und Louise denkbar harmlos aus. Doch dann finden die beiden heraus, dass der unscheinbare Mann tatsächlich etwas zu verbergen hatte – und dass noch andere diesem Rätsel auf die Spur kommen wollen, koste es, was es wolle ...

"The Piece of String" is a short story by Guy de Maupassant that explores human suspicion, social judgment, and the destructive power of false accusations. Set in the rural village of Goderville, France, during a bustling market day, protagonist Maître Hauchecorne, a frugal Norman peasant, notices a small piece of string on the ground and bends to pick it up, despite suffering from rheumatism. His action is observed by Maître Malandain, a man with whom he has a longstanding rivalry.

Moving from a London theatre to a Pacific nightmare, and finally to a garden at the end of human history, these novellas explore what those famous silences contained. They do not rewrite the originals; they stand alongside them, asking: What did you see, and why could you not say it? An immersive listening experience for fans of literary fiction and psychological depth, these testimonies give a final, defiant voice to the witnesses who have been waiting over a century to be heard.

Es muy posible que Hugo Schatzman, el vecino de la casa 8, tenga cáncer. Y todos en el condominio reaccionan unidos frente a esta noticia. Sarcástico relato de Jaime Collyer, que deja de manifiesto los vaivenes del comportamiento humano.

Una mujer recuerda con nostalgia su infancia en la casa de campo familiar, junto a sus hermanas y Sabina, la vieja criada, cómplice de sus juegos y aventuras.

Due racconti, due ritratti dell'animo umano, un'unica, inconfondibile voce: quella di Fëdor Dostoevskij. In "Un piccolo eroe", lo scrittore russo esplora con sorprendente delicatezza il passaggio dall'infanzia alla maturità. Attraverso lo sguardo di un giovane protagonista, il racconto mette in scena il risveglio dei sentimenti, l'orgoglio, l'umiliazione e il primo confronto con il dolore morale.

Dos acaudalados empresarios mineros copiapinos apuestan sus más preciados bienes en un juego de cartas que impactará a toda una ciudad. Relato inspirado en un hecho histórico ocurrido en Chile en el siglo XIX.

SF is an extension of our understanding of the universe whereas Speculative • Dystopian Fiction is more to do with the here and now. The journey from the wooden characterisations of yesteryear to the here and now — a direction of travel as good as a stated objective by the High Evangelists of New Wave — was a uniquely pointless endeavour... Undercroft: The last redoubt of mankind is a massive subterranean building. Crotchety old scribe Broadsquire once again downs his quills. He's been called on to deal with the challenge of crackle-connect. Shades of Gormenghast!!

Poucos escritores moldaram tanto a imaginação moderna quanto H. G. Wells. Considerado um dos pais da ficção científica, Wells foi muito mais do que um autor de histórias fantásticas: foi um visionário que antecipou debates sobre ciência, sociedade, política e o destino da humanidade. Em "A Porta no Muro e Outros Contos", o leitor tem acesso a uma faceta menos comentada, porém igualmente poderosa, de sua obra: narrativas curtas que mergulham no psicológico, no simbólico e no existencial.