Showing titles in Anthologies & Short Stories

Kun kirjailija päättää jättää tyttöystävänsä halveksuttavalla tavalla, tyttöystävä järjestää koston. Koston, joka vetäisi maton alta jokaiselta kirjailijalta. Toisaalla rikosjuristi saa työkseen tapauksen, jossa on jotakin outoa – miehensä murhasta syytetty vaimo vaikuttaa...

Kaksi lontoolaista miestä kilpailee siitä, kumpi pääsee ensin viettämään yhden illan jutun newyorkilaisen kaunottaren, Debbien, kanssa. Lopputulos yllättää miehet. Aatelismies kokee suuren yllätyksen, kun kallis perintöesine vaikuttaakin olevan väärennös. Englantilainen kirjailija...

Experience the rugged world of the Old West in W. C. Tuttle: Lawmen, Outlaws, and Frontier Justice, a collection of classic Western tales filled with gunfighters, deception, frontier law, and hard-earned justice. Featuring Law-Star for an Outlaw, The Trail of Deception, and Skeeter Bill Comes to...

In the shadowed windows of a grand historic home overlooking the Indian River Lagoon in Fort Pierce, Florida, the apparition of a grieving woman materializes—eternally gazing across the restless waters, waiting for her husband and son who vanished on a doomed fishing trip, never to return.

When a mysterious packet of seeds arrives at their struggling Wisconsin farm, Ruth and Daniel believe it might be the answer to their prayers. The crops grow fast, too fast. The stalks rise impossibly high, the husks pulse as if alive, and at night the whispers begin. Daniel sees salvation. Ruth feels only dread. Soon, the corn is not just growing, it is watching. As eyes open across the fields and voices seep into their home, Ruth realises the truth. This harvest does not belong to them.

When Xander MacKenzie gets the job of assassinating a prominent FBI agent, it's his chance to prove he's still got what it takes. Except sometimes, even the best plans go wrong–and Xander's luck is quickly running out...

Poison-tongued film critic Reginald Wright is known for his creative insults and intolerance for the garbage culture, insufferable rudeness, and thoughtless racism of predictably common people. Now, against his better judgment, and with a marriage in crisis, he’s attempting a getaway in the Poconos that quickly fulfills his every low expectation. In fact, it’s becoming a nightmare. And that’s just what Reginald needs to wake up.

Stephen King reads three of his classic short stories including 1408, now a feature film! Enter a nightmarish mindscape of unrelenting horror and shocking revelations as the greatest storyteller of our time takes us inside a world of yearning and paranoia, isolation and addiction. It is the...

*Named a Garden & Gun and Atlanta Journal Constitution best book of the year* Winner of the 2020 Thomas Robinson Prize for Southern Literature "Mesmerizing...He's one of the best living American writers."--Janet Maslin, New York Times Book Review From bestselling and award-winning writer Ron...

Der Erzähler besucht eine Irrenanstalt im Süden Frankreichs und trifft den Anstaltsleiter, der ihn in die „Menagerie" der Irren einführt. Viele der Insassen halten sich für Gegenstände oder Tiere. Die Geschichte spielt zur Zeit der Cholera-Epidemie in New York. Der Protagonist folgt einer Einladung eines Verwandten zu dessen Landhaus am Ufer des Hudson River. Der Protagonist ist äußerst abergläubisch und wird misstrauisch, nachdem er ein paar Bücher in der Bibliothek seines Freundes gelesen hat.

Some places look ordinary until one impossible detail changes everything. Rain falls across an entire valley except around one isolated house. A light appears inside an apartment with no electricity. Three antique keys belong to a house demolished decades ago. An abandoned railway platform is missing from modern maps. A drought reveals a forgotten village beneath a reservoir. And those are only the beginning. The Rain Stopped at One House is a collection of ten atmospheric mystery and suspense stories in which ordinary people encounter strange clues hidden inside familiar places.

Ten mysteries. Ten unexplained events. Countless clues waiting to be discovered. Someone Opened the Door is a collection of suspenseful mystery stories filled with strange disappearances, hidden rooms, forgotten records, abandoned places, mysterious figures, and unexpected discoveries. From an empty house showing signs of life to seven missing minutes, a strange door deep in the woods, and a midnight intrusion that leaves behind more questions than answers, each story begins with an ordinary moment that quickly becomes a mystery.

Fünfzehn Krimis, ein Sehnsuchtsort: der Lago Maggiore und sein kleiner Bruder, der Lago d'Orta. Zwischen den eleganten Uferpromenaden von Stresa und Belgirate, den stillen Gassen von Orta und Pettenasco, den Felsen von Santa Caterina del Sasso und den alten Häusern von Luino, Maccagno, Sesto Calende, Brissago, Levo und Mergozzo lauert das Verbrechen. Wo andere Urlaub machen, geschieht das Unfassbare: Mord, Verrat, alte Schuld und brandneue Gier.

From Jeff Abbott -- the New York Times bestselling author of ADRENALINE and THE LAST MINUTE -- comes an all new short story, available only as an eBook and audio download. Sam Capra's infant son has been kidnapped. The shadowy, powerful organization responsible for the abduction has thwarted Sam...

From the New York Times bestselling editor of Combat, Victory: Volume Five includes Hangar Rat by Dean Ing and Eyes of the Cat by James Cobb. A stirring tribute to the Greatest Generation of Americans, Victory brings together the finest military fiction writers in the world with short novels of...

In the quaint English village of Eastcote, a series of mysterious murders unfold. Hilda Shilton has unconventional methods. Yet she still stumbles upon a web of espionage and criminal activities linked to a top-secret base. Join Hilda and Arthur Shilton along with her best friend Pearl and a surprise addition. Another Hilda Mystery Novella.

Nothing here is dramatic. Nothing here is impossible. And yet… something isn't right. In This Isn't Unusual, A. Sjoberg explores the quiet moments where reality begins to slip — where memories don't quite match, where people feel slightly off, and where the truth is never as stable as it should be. These stories don't rely on monsters or spectacle. They live in the familiar.

Originally published in the collection Twisted Tales of Halloween Horror: Carnival of Carnage (brought to you by the Sisterhood of the Black Pen), Carnival Prey is now available to listen to solo. Mamie has the perfect life. She gets to adventure with her partner, River, all around the world while entertaining the masses with their traveling carnival. Today is their one year anniversary and Mamie is CERTAIN that River is going to propose. But, instead of a ring, River pulls out a journal, encouraging Mamie to listen to it.

Jeffrey Archer returns with his eagerly-awaited audiobook collection. Tell Tale gives listeners a fascinating, exciting and sometimes poignant insight into the people he has met, the stories he has come across, and the countries he has visited. Find out what happens to the hapless young...

Tragic, comic, outrageous—these fifteen stories in And Thereby Hangs a Tale from international bestselling author Jeffrey Archer showcase his remarkable talent for capturing an unforgettable moment in time… In India, in "Caste-Off," a man and woman fall in love while waiting for a traffic...