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What is evil? Is it something supernatural that seeps into our world… or something far more human, lurking just beneath the surface? In The Evil Edition, Kevin J. Kennedy assembles a relentless collection of dark tales that blur the line between monster and man.

Brought to you by Penguin. A thrilling anthology of short stories from the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Scholomance Trilogy and Uprooted, spanning each of her realms and including a sneak peak into the world of her next series. From the dragon-filled Temeraire series and the gothic...

Newly married to novelist Rosie M. Banks, Bingo bucks the current trend by being extremely happy, although he does tend to lose his shirt on various horses. This collection of wonderfully funny stories features a cast of outrageous characters.

Stories about ordinary people going about ordinary lives will always be fascinating when told by a writer blessed with extraordinary talent, insight, and compassion. This Year It Will Be Different brings us the magic and spirit of Christmas in fifteen stories filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark...

Brought to you by Penguin. As she walks out of her marriage, a woman remembers the day her husband rescued a boy from drowning. A blind man on his wedding day celebrates the pursuit of love. And a young man leaves prison with only one desire - to see his son again. Kit de Waal's characters light...

Kevin J. Kennedy Presents Vampires II. It’s a brutal, strange, and beautifully varied collection of vampire tales from a wide range of voices. Spanning centuries, continents, and subgenres. From war-torn Europe and WWII battlefields to southern backroads, abandoned arcades, isolated campsites, and post-apocalyptic highways, these stories explore vampires as monsters, predators, lovers, ghosts, weapons, and myths. You’ll find ancient Slavic spectres, elemental creatures hunted by their own kind, bat-like horrors that stalk the night, and old-world vampires clashing with modern survival.

Welcome to the party. Pull up a chair, take your ease, and join Tom, king of the Cattle Market branch, for a bite to eat and a glass or two of wine. Come and meet his customers: many of whom have become his friends, and many more of whom haven't. Either way they've some fine tales to tell. Join...

From money-making schemes involving placing wagers on vicars to poor Bingo having to produce the village school Christmas entertainments, every one of Wodehouse’s superb short stories are guarantee to raise a smile from even the most stony-faced listener!

Eleven short stories from award-winning author Joe Hill, building on the success of his blockbuster novels. Some new, some previously published, all terrifying. Includes 'Full Throttle' and 'In the Tall Grass', both collaborations with Stephen King and both being filmed at the time of writing.

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.

Collected for the first time anywhere, the nine tales in The Egg and Other Stories highlight Andy Weir's trademark wit and unexpected twists. For the few who have yet to experience The Martian, it's a perfect appetizer. For passionate Weir fans, it's a delicious dessert.

The original stories featuring A. J. Cronin's much-loved Scottish country doctor. Dr Finlay's Casebook brings together Adventures of a Black Bag and Dr Finlay of Tannochbrae, A. J. Cronin's two hugely popular collections. Set in and around the fictional Scottish town of Levenford and village of Tannochbrae during the interwar years, the stories found here are heartwarming, funny and touching, full of fascinating characters and unforgettable encounters.

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.

Welcome to Bloodhaven, where each night a new nightmare unfolds. Abandoned carnivals that should be avoided, zoos with the strangest of occupants, duffle bags that are best left unopened. An assortment of chilling short stories await—bite-sized horrors told in a gripping, "true story" style that will make you question the quiet towns around you.

ベストセラー『さよなら、田中さん』の著者が瑞々しい文体で描き切る涙と笑いの家族小説 嘘も、後悔も、失望も、孤独さえも、持ち帰れる場所はきっとある――。 両親を亡くして一人で生きてきた紅美（27）。

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...

Some hauntings arrive not as shadows, but as a smile you cannot quite face. In The Smile In My Peripheral, Elara Voss receives a relic from her estranged mother's estate: an obsolete flip phone that smells of dust and antiseptic. What begins as clinical paperwork fractures into psychological suspense when the old phone vibrates at 3:03 a.m. with voicemails from a woman dead for eight weeks. Or so Elara believes.

Wenn der Schnee leise fällt, beginnen die Geschichten zu flüstern. In Schneegeflüster öffnen sich fünf winterliche Welten – märchenhaft, geheimnisvoll und manchmal ein wenig schräg. Eine Elfe kämpft um den letzten Funken Weihnachtszauber, auf dem Eis tanzen zwei Herzen umeinander, ein kleiner Vampir entdeckt ein uraltes Familiengeheimnis, und ein verbitterter Mann sucht nach seiner verlorenen Liebe. Und zwischen Büchern und Träumen liegt ein Moment der Ruhe und Wärme.

Upon returning from abroad, Ryan Jordan receives word that his mother has passed. As he processes this news from his sister over the phone, Ryan begins to question his past relationship with his mother. Grief soon mingles with regret as he makes the necessary preparations for her burial alongside his father. While at his father’s gravesite, memories of a fond childhood growing up around horses at their former home flood his mind, memories that he wants to share with his sister’s family when they bring down his mother’s cremated remains.

A literary short story featuring 'Theatre -of -the -Mind' cinematic audio design. On a cold Scottish autumn evening, a man stops by derelict castle ruins while driving through the Highlands. Something draws him towards the deserted ancient fortress. As dusk settles over the loch, a profound grief overtakes him—a sorrow so deep it threatens to consume him entirely. Something about this place speaks to him in ways he cannot explain. What the hell is happening?