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The No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's memorable story Apt Pupil - published in his 1982 story collection Different Seasons and made into a movie starring Ian McKellan and Brad Renfro - is now available as a standalone publication. You must know that your fate and my own are inextricably...

The mission seems simple enough: Extract a pharmaceutical magnate from Russian soil. But nothing is as it appears to be. A desperate call thrusts Captain Tucker Wayne and his stalwart military dog, Kane, into a frantic race to rescue the brilliant-but-deluded Abram Bukolov from a cadre of skilled assassins. Hunted and betrayed at every turn, Tucker and Kane must discover the truth behind a horror out of the ancient past that can be weaponized to terrorize the modern world. As time rapidly runs out, the deep and intimate bond between dog and soldier will be tested to the extreme.

The World of Shadow introduces The Doll Funeral and delves further into one of the characters in the book – Shadow. Shadow flits through The Doll Funeral, he has a close but often tempestuous relationship with the hero, Ruby. In the short story we rewind back and see a snapshot of his life...

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...

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...

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.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA 'Mary Farren went into the gun room one morning about half-past eleven, took her husband's revolver and loaded it, then shot herself. The butler heard the sound of the gun from the pantry...' The fourteen haunting stories in this collection span the whole...

When Gold's daughter is viciously attacked by a neighbor's dog and barely escapes with her life, Gold's world is torn open. Haunted by the incident and unable to convince local authorities to take action, he agrees to a friend's offer of retaliation. When he feels compelled to return the favor...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fiendish suspense. Shocking twists. Twelve diabolical tales. New York Times bestselling author and highly acclaimed storyteller Jeffery Deaver-the undisputed "grand master of the plot twist" (Booklist)-returns with a dazzling new collection of short stories. In these twelve electrifying tales...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Lincoln Rhyme novel The Burial Hour -- comes three powerful short stories. In "Fast," Kathryn Dance races against the clock to track down the members of a domestic terrorist cell--with the lives of 200 people hanging in the balance. In "Game," a...

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...

This collection of twelve short stories will draw the listener into each story, whether it is Old Love, the tale of two undergraduates at Oxford in the thirties and their bitter rivalry that ends in a memorable love story or Broken Routine, which tells of an insurance claim advisor and his...

Cat O' Nine Tales is the fifth collection of irresistible short stories from the master storyteller Jeffrey Archer. These twelve yarns are satisfying and ingeniously plotted, featuring richly drawn characters and Jeffrey Archer's trademark deliciously unexpected conclusions. They feature the mad...

The expected never happens . . . A man calls unexpectedly on his mistress and sees another man leaving her flat. Accusing her of being unfaithful, he quarrels with her, strikes her. She dies. Leaving unseen, he tips off the police so that the other man is arrested and charged . . . Has he...