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A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King’s classic bestselling short story collection. Stories include: -Chattery Teeth -The Moving Finger -Home Delivery -Sneakers and more…...

A brilliant new short story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Madeline Miller—her first new work of fiction since the publication of Circe—that vibrantly reimagines the powerful and forgotten myth of Mestra. A cursed father, a gifted daughter Mestra, daughter of the King of...

They say age doesn't matter. I could argue that it does. The ten years separating Stella Cruz and I matter a whole hell of a lot. She has a year of college left—two entire semesters to enjoy being the star pitcher of Fulton University—and I have another Cup to win. Hockey leaves no room for anything else, not even someone as incredible as Stella. So, I left her in my bed. Out of sight, out of . . . sight. Because I damn sure can't get her out of my mind.

Thirteen terrifying tales from the master of horror who created the nationally bestselling Necroscope series. The title story, "Fruiting Bodies," in which a small village slowly disappears, won the British Fantasy Award.

The indomitable sleuth Miss Marple is led to a small town with shameful secrets in Agatha Christie’s classic detective story, The Moving Finger. Lymstock is a town with more than its share of scandalous secrets—a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate mail causes only a minor...

“White Nights” tells the story of a lonely man who wanders the streets of St. Petersburg over the course of four nights, searching for an escape from his isolation.

Life happens when you’re not looking. Unfortunately, so do a lot of other things. Hazard and Somerset: Off Duty Volume 3 is a collection of short stories.

In Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, Cards on the Table, the wily Hercule Poirot is on the case when a bridge night turns deadly Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he is a man of whom everybody is a little afraid. So when he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he...

Seven psychological stories. Seven gut-punch endings. If you think you can predict the twist, think again. From a desperate college student on the brink, to a grandmother whose faith turns to fanaticism, these short stories expose the darkest corners of the human mind. With obsession, betrayal, revenge, and raw vulnerability at the heart of each tale, no one escapes unscathed.

The mountain man fixing my cabin looks at me like something he craves. And now we’re snowed in together. Buying a broken-down cabin in the Montana mountains might have been a little reckless. But I wanted quiet. Freedom. A life that finally felt like mine. What I didn’t plan for? Brooks Walton. The silent, broad-shouldered mountain rescuer Dot sends to repair my cabin. He’s grumpy. Intense. And the way he watches me makes my pulse do funny things. Brooks doesn’t talk much. But when he looks at me, it feels like he’s already decided something. And the way this quiet mountain man ...

Courage comes in various forms. This small book contains a couple of nonfictional stories and one fictional story about courage. Heroes walk among us. Not all of them are given medals and parades, and some never tell others about their courageous acts. Courage Remembered: A true story about a selfless nurse who saved the life of the author in the street after he suffered a severe motorcycle accident. With her courageous act, she saved not only his life – but those of his unborn children and grandchildren. Change Came to Madison County: A true story regarding the dramatic changes impacting...

Dos hombres pendían al borde de la eternidad. Uno maldijo al mundo; el otro encontró a un Rey. Dimas era un hombre de las sombras, un ladrón que sobrevivía gracias a su ingenio y a una hoja oxidada en los despiadados arroyos de Jerusalén. Vivía bajo un código simple: toma lo que puedas y no confíes en nadie. Pero cuando un robo desesperado lo conduce a una mazmorra romana, se ve arrastrado por una marea de la historia de la que no puede escapar.

Jack Carter didn’t set out to write a book. He just kept moving. From ferry decks and telex rooms to street cafés and border towns, Places follows a journalist who thought he was chasing stories — only to realize he was writing one of his own. Told through quiet moments and sharp observations, these snapshots capture the rhythm of life on the road: arrivals, reveals, shifts, and departures. Set against the backdrop of the early 1980s and a world in transition, Places is a meditation on movement, memory, and what we carry when we stop running. No headlines. No heroes. Just a man and his...

What if the songs you know by heart were never about what you thought? Ghost Frequencies is a collection of ten literary short stories, each one built from the bones of a classic song. Not retellings. Not fan fiction. These are original stories that inhabit the emotional architecture of songs by Bowie, Cohen, The Beatles, The Eagles, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, The Rolling Stones, Queen, and The Animals — and transform them into something that breathes on its own. A bassist plays a flawless ninety-minute set while feeling nothing. A parish priest writes a eulogy for a woman he saw every ...

The Last House in Town is a collection of twenty original horror stories united by a single, deeply unsettling premise: the house is not haunted by the dead, but by the living. From a traveller who arrives at a deserted town and finds the last lit window waiting for him, to a woman who discovers a new window in her hallway showing a shadow that learns to smile before she does – these are stories about isolation, belonging, and the terrible intimacy of a place that knows you better than you know yourself. A cartographer maps his city as it disappears around him, block by block, moving ...

Do you believe in ghosts? Is there really a line between sanity and the afterlife? Danny's mother passes away from cancer when he's 13 years old. Over the next several years, his father, the not-quite-famous author Joseph Cramer, becomes a recluse and begins talking to someone else in the house, who he claims is Danny's mother. Is he talking to himself as he slowly loses his mind, or is she really there? Join Danny on this heartfelt journey as he begins to wonder if he's following the path of his father's descent...

Hard-hitting crime stories from the edge of madness and terror where murderers, serial killers, and sociopaths skulk along the streets of Los Angeles by day and night. The skies may be sunny, but the streets of the city are cold as ice and teeming with dissolution that spreads across the entire country like a miasma of evil reaching all the way to the Florida Keys. Corruption drips from the seats of power and infects everyone below. In the land of the dollar, money is not only king it’s the only way to insulate yourself from the raw brutality of the city jungle. Sometimes even money ...

Eli Cutter has seen sixty-two deaths. None of them looked like this. When a woman is found dead in a remote Appalachian holler—official cause: exposure—Eli is called in to confirm the obvious. But there’s nothing obvious about her face. She looks… expectant. Like she saw something coming. Like she recognized it. And she didn’t run. Eli rents a room from the victim’s estranged daughter, Maura Rowe—a woman who doesn’t trust him, doesn’t want him there, and definitely doesn’t want him digging into her family’s past. Because women in her family don’t just die. They go up...

"One day when Pooh Bear had nothing else to do, he thought he would do something, so he went round to Piglet's house to see what Piglet was doing." Thus begins The House At Pooh Corner, A.A. Milne's wonderful companion volume to Winnie-the-Pooh. You will rediscover Pooh, Christopher Robin, Piglet, Eeyore, and all their friends, and be introduced to the irrepressible and very bouncy Tigger.

Jem and Tean: Guys Gone Wild is a collection of short stories.