Short Stories Fairy Tales

Four Horrifying Tales from the book 31 Horrifying Tales from the Dead in audiobook format.

Welcome to Cambio Springs. In this small desert town, secrets bubble up from the desert floor, and history is written on the canyon walls. Seven friends will gather at the crossroads, because in Cambio Springs everything - and everyone - changes. Jena Crowe escaped the Springs 10 years ago. Now she's heading home with two boys to start a new life. With her husband's ghost keeping her company on the road, Jena will learn that moving back and moving backward aren't necessarily the same thing.

En estos cuentos fantasticos, campea el espiritu de los personajes que nos hacen sonar, sorprendernos y vivir en ese otro lado de la vida, que -como la cara oculta de la luna-, se antoja habitado por criaturas inimaginables, sombras, ecos y colores nunca vistos. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

There is a place just beyond the dream world where writers come to play. It is a mythical place located next to the Field of Gathered Imaginations. In the land of Olde Country there resides a shoppe filled with ideas for the masses. But what happens when the ideas run out?

What really happens when Prince Charming and Sleeping Beauty ride off on his white steed? Funny you should ask. We thought we knew. But the truth is, while he's wooing Sleeping Beauty, he's still married to Snow White and Cinderella. Things get zany when the seven dwarves show up to have a word with this ladies' man.

Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, and the other denizens of Mount Olympus feel almost as present and larger than life today as they did when they were worshipped as gods. Humanity has been telling and retelling stories about the characters from Greek and Roman myth for centuries—heck, the Romans liked the Hellenic originals so much, they remade them faster than Marvel remakes Spider-Man movies. And from Virgil's Aeneid to Xena: Warrior Princess to Percy Jackson to The Song of Achilles, the obsession has never waned.

Le mille e una notte è una raccolta di novelle orientali, di varia ambientazione e di differenti autori. Il re persiano Shahriyar, essendo stato tradito da una delle sue mogli, ha deciso di uccidere sistematicamente le sue spose al termine della prima notte di nozze. La bella e intelligente Sheherazade, sua novella sposa, escogita un trucco per salvarsi: ogni sera racconta al re una storia, rimandando il finale al giorno dopo.

Archeologo ed autore di celebri romanzi storici, tra cui la trilogia "Aléxandros", Valerio Massimo Manfredi si cimenta in questo testo inedito con la forma del racconto. Che siano ambientate nell'antica Grecia o nelle corti rinascimentali, ai tempi delle guerre puniche, o in una centrale nucleare all'alba del 2000, queste storie confermano il desiderio costante dello scrittore di rendere la Storia sempre più "vicina" al lettore contemporaneo.

Before Black Elk Speaks, before his epic poem "A Cycle of the West", John G. Neihardt wrote many short stories that found favor with readers and critics. Among his best were the 17 collected in Indian Tales and Others in 1926. "The Singer of the Ache", considered Neihardt's highest achievement in short fiction, portrays young Moon-Walker's quest for supernatural powers achieved at a price.

Do you want to get a good listening in, but only have 10-15 minutes? Want a full scary story but don't want to read for days and days? This short thriller is for you! Are urban legends real? After being teased about a scary urban legend of The Lady on the Road by her older brother, a teenage girl drives to her friend's house on a Friday night to hang out. After leaving her friend's house, she decides she's going to prove to her brother that The Lady on the Road urban legend is just that.

Abejas superpoderosas, ogros que se pasan de listos y monstruos más buenos que el pan, niñas más astutas que un zorro o un conejo, ciegos que lo ven todo muy claro, hombres pobres que en realidad son muy ricos, comerciantes tramposos y abuelas mejores que mejores... Este libro es un viaje apasionante por los más dispares rincones del mundo a través de sus cuentos. Del Líbano a Guatemala, del Tíbet a Senegal, de Tanzania a Portugal, desprende un lenguaje universal de fraternidad, el valor del bien común y el respeto por la diferencia.

Fernando Telletxea Oskoz nos introduce en el celaje de los valles encantados, mostrándonos con su particular manera de narrar los enigmas de las malas artes y conjuros de aquellas mujeres que gracias al dicho popular tuvieron presencia en la cotidianidad del discurrir de una sociedad embebida por las innumerables promesas de la Santa Madre Iglesia.

The beasts Detective Loren and Soriya Greystone battled in Lou Paduano’s debut book Signs of Portents were just a hint of what lurks in the city. Tales from Portents explores the city’s immersive history, including stories of Loren’s descent after his wife’s death - and his opportunity to have her rise from the grave. Soriya battles gremlins, navigates lessons with Mentor, and meets the werewolf Luchik. Follow new characters with expansive histories as they come face to face with the horrors of Portents - both human and otherwise.

A righteous King with a choice to make realizes he's less virtuous than he originally thought....

Dating from at least a millennium ago, these are the earliest known Arabic short stories, surviving in a single, ragged manuscript in a library in Istanbul. Some found their way into The Arabian Nights, but most have never been read in English before. Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange has monsters, lost princes, jewels beyond price, a princess turned into a gazelle, sword-wielding statues and shocking reversals of fortune.

Thirteen short stories detailing completely different scenarios will keep your attention in the final collection of the Rabbit Hole series.

Welcome to a world where magic dances with reality and where folktales whisper the wisdom of ages past. In this enchanting collection of short stories for kids, we invite you to embark on an extraordinary journey filled with wonder, laughter, and timeless lessons.

Disfruta de las maravillosas leyendas de Béquer en esta compilación única :El rayo de luna , El monte de las ánimas, La cueva de la mora, La Rosa de pasiónLa corza blanca, La Cruz del diablo, La promesa, Los ojos verdes, El besoEl gnomo, 3 fechas, Maese Pérez el organista, Las hojas secas, Creed en DiosLa venta de los gatos, La creación, La ajorca de oro, El miserere, ! es raro !El Cristo de la calavera, El caudillo de las manos rojas.

Die Magie von Geschichten zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch Neil Gaimans Werk. So auch durch diese Kollektion von Erzählungen und Gedichten, in der ein mysteriöser Zirkus sein Publikum in Angst und Schrecken versetzt, Sherlock Holmes in einem seltsam verzerrten viktorianischen England einen royalen Mord aufklären muss oder eine Gruppe von Feinschmeckern nach der letzten ungekosteten Gaumenfreude forscht. Neil Gaimans erzählerisches Genie und sein beängstigend unterhaltsamer Sinn für schwarzen Humor machen diese Sammlung zu einer Geschenkbox voller Zauber.

Nickle finds himself sucked into the center of the earth, where he finds nothing but magic and mayhem. Amid horrifying monsters, fairies that are in open rebellion, a greedy dwarf warlord, and an indestructible but blind adversary, Nickle finds himself in the middle of a power struggle that could mean the end of this new world.