Anthology World Literature

Collected here are intersecting tales not just about Rimes but about friends, antagonists, and passersby who move through his world. Included are his first case as a PI, two pieces written by Bobby Chance, the backstory of a trial that shaped a friendship, the whereabouts of the Spider after his departure from Buffalo, and a novelette (inspired by two historic murder cases) that puts Rimes in the presence of someone truly demonic.

Each story will plunge you into a whirlpool of TERROR, leaving you gasping for breath and begging for more! Your perceptions will shift, and every moment will crackle with suspense. So, TURN OFF THE LIGHTS, plug in your headphones, and let the madness envelop you. But Remember! Once you dive in, there’s NO ESCAPE from the nightmares that await!

Melody is not a fan of modern rock music. She’s more into music from bygone eras than that from her generation, but when her college roommate insists she go to a rock concert with her and a few other friends, she reluctantly lets them drag her along. She doesn’t know anything about the band they’re seeing except its name. That’s why when Melody is about to pee her pants and stumbles into the lead singer’s dressing room, mistaking it for a bathroom, she has no clue who the hot dude is.

Written in the dark days of World War I, join Lord Dunsany as he spreads the dreams that we cannot leave to die. Dunsany was the most influential writer in the genre that came to be known as fantasy, which his stories set trends for that continue to this day.

Justin C. Key has long been obsessed with monsters. Reading R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps as a kid, he imagined himself battling monsters and mayhem to a triumphant end. But when watching Scream 2, in which the movie’s only Black couple is promptly killed off, he realized that the Black and Brown characters in his favorite genre were almost always the victim or villain—if they were portrayed at all.

Bigfoot encounters, they say, are transformative. Jump into Tracks and see what you will say about them! Here, you will meet a Sasquatch for every season. You may never get a chance to meet a Bigfoot in person, but don’t miss the chance to meet the Sasquatch in Tracks, a collection of engaging stories based on actual reports of encounters.

Alla metà del XIV secolo Giovanni Boccaccio immaginò che, per sfuggire alla peste che nel 1348 stava decimando Firenze, sette giovani donne e tre giovani uomini si ritirarono in campagna, ingannando il tempo mangiando, danzando e, soprattutto, raccontandosi storie. Nacque così il Decameron, una raccolta di cento straordinari racconti, uno dei testi fondamentali della nascente letteratura italiana ed europea.

Once upon a time, Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories - fantastical yarns of wondrous creatures in faraway places-bewitched children across the world. But times change. Today, Kipling's writing tells us a different tale; of a love of Empire, and the troubling legacy of British colonialism. In Not So Stories, writers of colour from around the world reclaim these stories and remake them into something new. Something different.

Europe and Elsewhere is a collection of Mark Twain's short stories and essays published in 1923. It is a must-listen for any Samuel Langhorn Clemens aficionado.

Weiterschreiben im Fremdsein – ein einzigartiger Austausch der Kulturen. Wie weiterschreiben nach der Flucht aus Kriegs- und Krisengebieten? Wie veröffentlichen? Gehört werden? "Weiterschreiben - (W)Ortwechseln" ist die vielfach ausgezeichnete Online-Plattform, die Autor:innen die Möglichkeit gibt, weiter zu schreiben und literarisch anzukommen. Bereits seit 2017 schreiben Autor:innen u. a. aus Syrien, dem Irak, Iran, Jemen und Afghanistan Briefe, Erzählungen und Gedichte u.a. über ihre alte Heimat und über ihre neue, über das Weggehen und Ankommen.

Alexander Shalom Joseph’s American Wasteland is a collection of stories about the contemporary day-to-day in America. It is said in the Talmud that one job of certain Jews is to justify the existence of humanity to God; in this collection, Joseph attempts to do just this with his stories, which speak to the everyday mundane and the vast richness in both meaning and meaninglessness that abound all around us. These stories, vivid in detail, portray a stagnant land full of longing and millions of lost people trying to make sense of a world which can seem both crushing and light.

Este audiolibro reúne los mejores cuentos del escritor sueco Stig Dagerman. Los veinticinco relatos que componen este audiolibro reflejan los conflictos y angustias que definieron a toda una generación: la que fue testigo del último suspiro de una forma de vida eminentemente agrícola y que vivió los desastres de la II Guerra Mundial.

From the remarkable Ha Jin, winner of the National Book Award for his celebrated novel Waiting, comes this collection of comical and deeply moving tales of contemporary China that are as warm and human as they are surprising, disturbing, and delightful. In the title story, the head of security at a factory is shocked, first when the handsomest worker on the floor proposes marriage to his homely adopted daughter, and again when his new son-in-law is arrested for the "crime" of homosexuality.

Записки юного врача — сборник рассказов Михаила Булгакова, который раскрывает важную, но не всем известную сторону жизни автора — молодого врача. Рассказы во многом основаны на опыте работы Булгакова врачом в сельской больнице, где, будущий писатель, проводя сложнейшие операции, пытался осмыслить свое жизненное предназначение.

J. Jacob Potashnik's collection of short stories about Montreal and other places is in the tradition of Saul Bellow, Mordechai Richler, and reminiscent of the work of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Sholom Aleichem, among others.

Ci sono fili capaci di unire i mondi interiori delle donne: a volte sono la forza delle risate, il valore dell'amicizia, l'amore o il sesso; altre, la paura di fronte a un matrimonio inaridito, l'ipocrisia, la solitudine o il timore dell'abbandono. Ancora una volta, Marcela Serrano dimostra il suo talento nel penetrare anima e psicologia femminili con venti racconti appassionanti e potenti, abitati da donne fragili, forti, avventurose e timorose, casalinghe o intellettuali, le cui voci e storie si imprimono a fuoco nella memoria dei lettori.

The HG Wells Collection includes 4 of Wells' most beloved novels: The Time Machine, The Island of Dr Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. All read by the new voice of H.G. Wells, Malk Williams, this collection is the perfect opportunity to delve into some of Wells' most formative and iconic writings.

The twelve stories in Crime and Prejudice imagine a deliciously seamy underside to Jane Austen's world. Arson, highway robbery, petty crime and murder mingle with fox-hunting, bawdy-houses, gaming-tables and transportation to Australia in these tales recounted to Elizabeth Darcy by her friends and family.

A fascinating and varied collection of 50 great classic short stories, including ghost stories, crimes, humorous tales and passionate romance.

Eine wunderbare Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten aus vielen Jahrhunderten - vom 14. Jahrhundert bis in die Moderne! Mit dabei Meisterwerke von Boccaccio, Balzac, Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, de Maupassant, Tschechow, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Joachim Ringelnatz und Wolfgang Borchert!