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A collection of ten classic short stories including "Lost Hearts", "Miss Brill", "The Yellow Paint", "An Encounter", and "The Phantom Coach".

There’s nothing worse than the ruler of Hell without wings. Unless it’s the ruler of Hell without Sparrow. Meg’s trying to get her footing in her own realm, while planning an escape to locate Sparrow. What starts as a simple rescue mission turns into disaster.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story The Rose Garden. Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales featuring the macabre and chilling voices of writers as diverse as Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Nesbit, and MR James. These tales are designed to unsettle you, just a little, as you sit back and take in their words as they lead you on a walk to places you’d perhaps rather not visit on your own.

She should have been safe. But she never came home. Kath has lived on the same London estate for decades. Lately she’s become friendly with the little girl next door, who is often left alone for hours while her mum is at work. They have a system. When Mina gets home from school to the empty flat, she knocks on the wall three times. Knock, knock, knock. I’m home safe and sound. But one day Mina’s knock doesn’t come. Kath raises the alarm and the police begin the search. Kath was the only person looking out for Mina—now she might be the only one who can bring her home.

Join the adventure through dystopian worlds, to outer planets and into a speculative future. Welcome to the Future Days Anthology. Seventeen authors imagine a future with thrilling tales, starships, unlikely heroes, and exotic aliens, all of which combine to make Future Days a must-listen sci-fi fantasy short story collection.

On the distant world of Zoe, an expedition finds DNA-based life. When alien invaders are also discovered, Glenn Hamilton calls on the U.S.S. Merrimack for help. But the Ninth Circle and the Palatine Empire have also found Zoe. Soon everyone will be on a collision course to determine the fate of this planet.

Meg Clark has turned out to be everything her father and the people of her little North Country town of Gouverneur, NY, have been saying her whole life: nothin’ but a piece of white trash. To hide her past, she spent her inheritance on the perfect little house with a white picket fence. Then something terrible happened and Meg got sent to county lockup so her fiancé, Jim, wouldn’t have to. And then everyone started waking up…dead.

There is one thing that is common to every individual, relationship, team, family, organization, nation, economy, and civilization throughout the world - one thing which, if removed will destroy the most powerful government, the most successful business, the most thriving economy, the most influential leadership, the greatest friendship, the strongest character, the deepest love.

Relying on primary sources-oral history interviews, personal memoirs, newspaper articles, official records, diaries, and letters - E.R. Milner cuts through myth and legend to create this startling portrait of the real Bonnie and Clyde.

No te pierdas el esperado desenlace de “Tierra de bestias", la cautivadora bilogía de R. M. André, y sumérgete en una aventura que te mantendrá en vilo hasta el final. SINOPSIS:Los destinos de Derryn, Tarym, Braundel y Lydana serán puestos a prueba con nuevas y trepidantes aventuras llenas de magia, amor, luchas y sucesos inesperados que culminarán en un desenlace apoteósico.¿Conseguirá el esclavo Derryn lo que más ansía? ¿Podrá la valerosa fanshi Tarym sobrevivir con su don maldito? ¿Qué nuevos riesgos vivirá el impulsivo Braundel? ¿Recuperará la caprichosa Lydana lo ...

Roxy is the unwanted child of Isadora Reid, a beautiful, intelligent woman beset with manic depression. Isadora’s neuroses lead to ever more risky behavior, exacerbated by drug addiction. Roxy clings to her mother’s rare displays of affection to tide her over long periods of gruesome abuse and neglect. Still a child, she falls into the orbit of Nick Dredd, a rising gang leader and drug dealer. He becomes her mentor, lovingly shaping her in his own image. However, Roxy has ideas of her own, a deep-seated desire to escape from the wretched world of her birth to one of peace and safety “...

"These novels are amazing. Deep, heartfelt, diverse and full of characters you would want to be your friends. The adventures are reminiscent of Prydain, Narnia, Earthsea, Willow, and Pern. Offers something for all lovers of fantasy, at any age, and should not be missed." ~ Digital wizard An evil sorcerer, addicted to the powerful magic contained in dragon tears, has grown powerful by capturing dragons and torturing them to sustain his need. His realm has few wyrms left. Craving, more dragons to hurt, and with the intent of enslaving everyone, and ruling the Isle of Alves, and Brytonia both,...

Xak, Garven, and Slayer leave Brytonia. Xak begins following a strange feeling drawing him deep into the frigid north. After hiring Nova Cordova, a northern barbarian girl with a reputation they assemble a motley crew of adventurers and set out to find a crystal palace in a hidden valley. Along the way they face terrible dangers and thrilling encounters, as well Nova's father, who raised her as a tomboy, but can't stand that she likes women. Xak, and those who survive, find way more than they bargained for when the witch who lives beyond Nova's village, decides to send her pack of malformed...

Layke never thought the gods would bless him with a mate but there she was...standing before him, locked in the dungeons, tied as a participant in the king’s evil Trials. His heart skipped a beat, knowing he would do whatever he could to ensure she lives. Even bind his life to hers.

We have been divided to be conquered. I made a deal to save Imani’s life….. but it means mine is over. And I would do it again in a heartbeat if it means she is safe from the Chancellor. How do you tell the person you love most in the world, you lost their family…… I’m alone. In the most inhospitable place to ever exist. Surrounded by exiled men. The rebellion has grown, the days dwindle, the end feels like it is barreling toward us. Everything we thought we knew unravels before our eyes.

Um eine fantastische Welt lebendig erscheinen zu lassen, benötigt sie eine Vergangenheit. Daher erschuf Bestsellerautor George R. R. Martin den fiktiven Kontinent Westeros, auf dem sein Meisterwerk "Das Lied von Eis und Feuer - Game of Thrones" spielt, in jahrelanger Detailarbeit. Das Hörbuch präsentiert erstmals die Geschichte von Westeros - beginnend in der Zeit, in der die ersten Menschen den Kontinent betraten, über die Ankunft von Aegon dem Eroberer und seinen Drachen bis zu Robert Baratheons Rebellion gegen den wahnsinnigen König Aerys II. Targaryen.

Meg finds out Sparrow has a sister. A beautiful and deranged sister that Sparrow's family is keeping locked in the basement. And now, they're locked up together while Sparrow attempts to make amends with family. Meg and Sparrow might be invincible together, but Meg is having a hard time getting along with Sparrow's father.

In "The Devil's Disciple," the remnants of the once-famous rock band The Serpents gather in the decaying grandeur of Steven Rex's French country house, now a haunting symbol of their past glory. As they confront their fading relevance, Steven proposes an outrageous plan: to invoke dark forces through an ancient ritual, hoping to regain their lost fame. Gathered with him are his bandmates—Mick, Barry, and Tony—along with Anna Divine, a former supermodel who embodies both beauty and desperation. The atmosphere is thick with tension as they commence the ritual, reciting archaic words from ...

Meg’s hiding from the law after that event at the border put her on America’s Most Wanted List. She’s not very good at hiding, though, and she’s made a new friend, Reuben. Reuben might be Florida’s cheapest lawyer, but he also has a dark side. One Meg will have to learn about the hard way. As Meg fights her personal demons, Sparrow tries to lure her back to Hell and Nightingale keeps interrupting her dreams. To make it worse, someone keeps dropping zombies nearby.