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Take a walk with Watts to discover an old Victorian home with a disturbingly dark secret, feel the cold winter snap with two security officers confronting a demon in the middle of a blizzard, witness as a fallen angel seeks justice in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, and cringe as a Halloween demon takes possession of a small boy to satisfy its bloodlust. It will be a stroll you will not soon forget…not one gory detail.

In this collection of 15 tales, Karl Drinkwater sews flesh onto the bones of our worst fears whilst revisiting some of horror's classic settings, such as the teen party, the boat in trouble, the thing in the cellar, the haunted museum, the ghost in the machine, and the urban legends that come true.

"Verloren - Zwischen Leben und Tod". Zehn Kurzgeschichten über den Anfang und das Ende des Lebens. Nachdenklich, skurril, spannungsgeladen, dramatisch... Alles andere als langweilig. Die Autorin Jillian Black berichtet von zehn fiktiven Schicksalen, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Und doch haben alle Kurzgeschichten eine Gemeinsamkeit. Die Protagonisten müssen sich plötzlich mit dem Thema Verlust auseinandersetzen.

Jamwal y Nisha se enamoran en Delhi, mientras esperan a que el semáforo se ponga en verde... así empieza una de los quince relatos que Jeffrey Archer ha reunido de todos los rincones del mundo durante los últimos cinco años hasta formar esta, su quinta antología de fascinantes cuentos cortos. 

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...

Four scorching novels in one—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lady Boss and Thrill! Inside the exclusive mansions of L.A., where Hollywood's most powerful players willingly risk it all, a killer is playing a deadly game. Drawn into this dangerous world are a high-class call...

New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver has long thrilled fans with tales of masterful villains and their nefarious ways, and the brilliant minds who bring them to justice. Now the author of the Lincoln Rhyme series has collected his award-winning, spine-tingling stories of suspense --...

Encounters is a curated collection of six contemporary short stories set across three continents. The stories reflect disparate adventures in a globalized, rapidly changing world: A young couple discovers the luxurious allure of Monte Carlo’s Grand Casino, a woman from San Francisco reveals an inspirational uncle’s secrets, a Bangkok expatriate lives out a night of excess, and a Russian immigrant navigates her unique New World voyage. Each story shines a different, up-close perspective on a lived moment in a certain place and time.

Muž sedící ve vězení je přesvědčen, že člověk, kterého údajně zavraždil, si plnými doušky užívá života. • Řidičku neúnavně pronásleduje vůz s děsivou osobou za volantem. Mladé umělkyni se podaří největší průlom v kariéře. Neposedná kráska najde dokonalý narozeninový dárek. Uprchlý Iráčan, který figuruje na Husajnově seznamu odsouzenců k smrti, nedobrovolně navštíví svou rodnou zemi. Jak se protagonisté s nastalou situací vypořádají? A co byste na jejich místě dělali vy?

A father no one in his house can hear anymore. A gang member who walks into a church where something is very wrong. A cameraman who exposes a trafficking ring and can't outrun what he saw. Then the collection turns on its author. In the final piece, Tullius counts the cost of a life spent absorbing punishment (football, boxing, MMA) and what it did to the man throwing the punches.

Silver Blaze, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "Silver Blaze" 13th in a list of his 19 favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr. Watson travel by train to Dartmoor to investigate a crime of disappearance of the great race horse Silver Blaze and the murder of the horse's trainer, John Straker.

En "Campo de muerte", Poe y Tilly están desayunando, preguntándose cómo pasarán el resto de sus vacaciones, cuando su presencia es solicitada en un aeródromo de Cumbria. Un aeródromo que durante la crisis de la fiebre aftosa de 2001 se conocía como el campo de la muerte... En "¿Por qué no encogen las ovejas?" una pandemia global obliga a Poe y a Tilly a aislarse juntos. Las cosas no salen bien. Discuten y están a punto de pelear cuando Poe encuentra un viejo expediente: un misterio en el que ha estado reflexionando durante años.

 Justice does not always come easily, and it comes in many guises. On the seedier side of London, a shopkeeper witnesses a brutal beating in “The Veteran” (read by Patrick Macnee). In a better neighborhood, a famous London auction house is scammed in “The Art of the Matter” (also read by Macnee). 

"The Problem of Thor Bridge" is a Sherlock Holmes murder mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, first published in 1922 in The Strand Magazine. Neil Gibson, the Gold King and former Senator from "some Western state", approaches Holmes to investigate the murder of his wife Maria in order to clear his children's governess, Grace Dunbar, of the crime. It soon emerges that Mr. Gibson's marriage had been unhappy and he treated his wife very badly.

"The Burial of the Rats" is a short story by Bram Stoker. It was first published in the UK in the January 26, 1896 and February 2, 1896 issues of Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, London. It was first published in the US in the January 26, 1896 and February 2, 1896 issues of The Boston Herald, Boston. Leaving Paris by the Orleans road, cross the Enceinte, and, turning to the right, you find yourself in a somewhat wild and not at all savoury district.

Uno de los grandes maestros en el arte de contar historias nos trae esta colección de catorce fascinantes cuentos repletos de elaborados timos, argucias políticas, comportamientos inmorales y aventuras peligrosamente ilícitas; todas ellas aderezadas de los sorprendentes giros inesperados que son signo de identidad de Jeffrey Archer.

Una de las colecciones de relatos de terror más celebradas por el público y la crítica norteamericana en lo que va de siglo, "Contemplad el vacío" ha colocado a Philip Fracassi en el panorama del terror contemporáneo como una de sus voces más interesantes y refrescantes. En estos cuentos encontramos tanto horror cósmico lovecraftiano como gozosas historias dignas de la mejor carnaza ochentera, todo con una visión y una prosa no vista hasta entonces en el género.

Sin tregua alguna para el lector, el trepidante misterio iniciado en "813" continúa con un maquiavélico juego de identidades secretas, suplantaciones, intrigas políticas internacionales, acusaciones en falso y un intrincado plan por hacerse con el control de Europa entera. Sin embargo, en el centro de todo se alza la figura de nuestro querido Arsène Lupin, el único capaz de plantar cara a quien está detrás de la red de traiciones y enigmas que pretende acabar con él: el pérfido y misterioso L. M.

The newest anthology from Mystery Writers of America explores the theme of home and the crimes that endanger it, with stories by Ellen Hart, Naomi Hirahara, Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky and more. Everyone comes from someplace. Everyone has somewhere they feel safe. Some people have found their...

Nadie es capaz de tejer una red de suspense, provocar una sacudida de sorpresa o dar una lección sobre la vida como el autor de bestsellers Jeffrey Archer. Desde África a Oriente Medio, desde Londres a Pekín, Archer nos lleva a lugares que jamás hemos visto y nos presenta personajes a los que jamás podremos olvidar.