Títulos em Antologias e Contos

La métamorphose une nouvelle fantastique écrite par Franz KAFKA. Texte français : Candide MANETCette nuit, je me suis métamorphosé en un monstrueux cafard. Pourtant, c'est toujours moi à l'intérieur. Pourquoi me haïssez-vous ?

Includes all five books in the Vegas Aces: The Wide Receiver series: Rookie Mistake, Hidden Mistake, Honest Mistake, No Mistake, and Favorite Mistake.

Un libro de cuentos con las insólitas historias navideñas de algunos de los autores con más talento de la literatura española. Un regalo excepcional para estas fiestas. Pensar en la Navidad es imaginar familias felices que sostienen tazones humeantes frente a la chimenea, cenas opíparas servidas con cubiertos de plata, calles cuajadas de nieve, vaho en las ventanas, abetos engalanados. Es invocar la nieve, el trineo de Santa Claus, las casas enormes decoradas con luces y estrellas, muñecos de nieve impávidos que sonríen bajo la nariz de zanahoria.

La duquesa y el joyero de Virginia Woolf es un cuento que explora las complejidades de las relaciones humanas y las expectativas sociales. La historia sigue a Oliver Bacon, un joyero modesto, que se enamora perdidamente de la duquesa de Lambourne, una mujer de alta alcurnia. A pesar de las diferencias sociales abismales entre ellos, Bacon cree que puede conquistar el corazón de la duquesa con un regalo extraordinario: un collar de esmeraldas. Sin embargo, la duquesa no muestra ningún interés en el collar ni en Bacon, lo que lo sumerge en una espiral de desesperación y obsesión.

A college student takes a job as a nightwatchman at his uncle’s junkyard and the ghosts that haunt the wrecked cars are the least of his worries. When a hardened New York City Detective tries to help two young boys being stalked by someone or something, he uncovers a truth that terrifies him.What happens when a mother makes a wish on a four-leaf clover and wants to take back her request?

Samhain has arrived. The Aegeon machine-elves have worked overtime to provide you with a special Halloween edition. Feel the cockles of your heart valves warming, carbon-dumplings. But BEWARE. This issue has nothing but doom, gloom, chills, frights, horrors, and lamenting dirges. A funeral march of despair, from moment one to the finish, where the pall bearers are as dead as the deceased, and the choir are howling werewolves. Where the sun goes all-black and Typhon raises from Tartarus a storm that captures souls in a black whirlwind.

Follow Bill Calders as he navigates a web of deceit, desire, and danger in a small town. When Bill visits an old friend, Art Thompson, he finds himself entangled with Art's alluring wife, Sarah. As the fog rolls in, secrets unravel, leading to a shocking revelation that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

This new collection is set around the events of The Edge of Madness, the second novel in the Aetherial War series. This shorty story compilation gives listeners seven different perspectives, and also introduces some keystone characters as the adventure continues.

Los relatos que recoge este libros –todos inquietantes y cargados de significado- dan cuenta de personajes inocentes y fatales, pero, sobre todo, constituyen una búsqueda al fondo de la literatura. El conjunto, pues, es una muestra de la potencia que ya le ha dado al estilo de su autora un carácter distintivo.

A captivating collection of short stories that explores the intersection of love, loss, and the afterlife through the lens of LGBTQ+ experiences. Each story features a unique protagonist who navigates their identity, longing, and relationships, all while encountering ghostly figures from the past.

The stories in The Vanishing Point are both exotic and domestic, their settings ranging from Hawaii to Africa and New England. Each focuses on life’s vanishing points—a moment when seemingly all lines running through one’s life converge, and one can see no farther, yet must deal with the implications. With the insight, subtlety, and empathy that has long characterized his work, Theroux has written deeply moving stories about memory, longing, and the passing of time, reclaiming his status, once again, as a master of the form.

A virtuosic, laugh-out-loud collection of stories that explore the fraught and fantastic nature of human connection—featuring women, men, various couples, and one terribly precocious baby enmeshed in tangled romances of all shapes and sizes

Estas fábulas son tanto episodios históricos como invenciones. Histórica fue la terrible venganza por la cruel muerte de Inés de Castro, como la huelga de hambre en Roma contra la tiranía de Nerón o el feroz castigo de un emperador griego que tras una batalla perdida condenó a la ceguera a miles de soldados búlgaros que así nunca podrían relatar lo que habían visto. Pura imaginación parecería este suceso que no obstante fue real.

岐路に立ち、惑う人々に贈る 喪失と再生の記憶。この物語は、あなたの明日をやさしく照らす――絵本作家として活躍する高城好子はかつて美弥子の継母だった。

In Ed Park’s utterly original collection, An Oral History of Atlantis, characters question the fleetingness of youth and art, reckon with the consequences of the everyday, and find solace in the absurd, the beautiful, and the sublime. Throughout, Park deploys his trademark wit to create a world both strikingly recognizable and delightfully other.

Querky tales of ordinary people...Their lives exposed!

Free Range is a humorous and quirky compilation of short stories. They were developed over time about a young JD Nirmaier being left with only his own devices and vivid imagination while growing up in the very rural North Woods of Wisconsin. Set during the early nineteen sixties and beyond, the stories are intended to highlight the incredible power and potential of the young (and older) human imagination, especially when left unchecked.

Der Fluch… So schnell es geht, muss ich den Schaden an meinem Schiff beheben und diesen Planeten verlassen. Nachts finde ich nur in der Kirche Zuflucht und werde zum Stein. Ausgerechnet SIE begegnet mir dort. So süß, so harmlos, so lecker und so menschlich. Gerade als ich alles hinter mir lassen und abhauen will, erlöst sie mich von meiner jahrelangen Pein. Damit ist unser Schicksal endgültig besiegelt…

Level 50! Die meisten erreichen es nie, da sie entweder zu feige, faul oder bequem sind. Diejenigen, die es schaffen, sind entweder Meister in ihren Berufungen oder so total verskillt wie Rok, so das sie immer noch nichts wirklich können. Nicht so Kiran. Der kann nicht nur jetzt schon was, er hat auch drei volle Charakterklassen für dieses Ereignis gespart. Außerdem war Rok so blöde, ihm zu versprechen, das er ihm hilft. Also sieht sich unsere Ratte derzeitig einem etwas anderen Problemspektrum gegenüber, als "nur“ eine Gilde aufzubauen.

The scene is a traditional English garden located in the splendour of the English countryside. The plants and wildlife have an ability to communicate with each other which the humans who reside in the house are totally unaware of. The rulers of the garden are the climbing roses who have a status of aristocracy which the other plants obey and surrender to them.