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Three of these five stories feature Charlie Task. Ever wonder what goes into making a psychopath? Find out in "The Odd Task." Ever wonder what it might be like to sit down in a psychopath's home and interview him? Check out "A View to the Curious." In "A False Sense of Finality," a bereaved mother comes to a realization... again. In "The Ethics of Murder" Charlie returns to his hometown to visit with an old friend at a high school reunion, at the...
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This collection contains 82 stories of 500 words and over. We have crimes afoot, characters with and without friends, loves lost and found, homages, heroes and zeros, humans and non-humans, ghosts and a werewolf. With stories in first, second and third-person points of view, the characters shop, work, or go on journeys, some not beyond their own four walls.
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12 short stories those who love strange, heartbreaking, and unforgettable fantasy.
What if you woke up to a city overgrown with briars and a dragon overhead? What if mermaids unleashed their wrath against Copenhagen using mechanoid war-machines? What if the man you loved wanted nothing more than running away to live with the faeries, but you were the one they wanted to take with them?
The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales gathers together twelve...
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In the spectrum of emotions, this book has more colours than the rainbow. The themes in this collection of short stories are varied and surprising. They twist and turn while swinging up and down. That's only to be expected from such an unlikely collection of writers. They met by chance at a community college. Very different people with only one thing in common - in short - they all had stories to tell. So get ready, you'll be astonished where they...
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Includes the following tie-in drabbles (100 word short stories):
"An Alternate Solution to the Sleeping Curse"
"Puss in Oops"
"Entrance Interview"
"The Novice at the Rulership"
"The Painting like the Rulership"
"Fairy Fingers"
"Fairy Stink"
"Dragon's Yowl"
"Trials of a Teenage Shapeshifter"
"Trials of a Teenage Zombie"
"Seven Shameless Scamps Looking Pitiful"
"Thirteen Years After a Sister's Wedding"
"Fifteen Problems in One Hundred Words"
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In this rollicking, gat-filled collection of eleven short stories, you get to see both sides. The mobsters and the cops. The perps and the victims. The guilty, the innocent and the merely complicit. These guys create and dispose of bodies, brag and complain and finagle a way out where no way out existed before. Come along for a wild ride!
In most of these stories, we hear from the mobsters themselves. And these are not mere "gangstas," wearing filthy,...
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Traversing the borderlands between terror and lush, fantastic beauty, Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales, Angela Slatter's eighth collection of short fiction, gathers twelve tales of horror, the uncanny, and dark lament.
Here, you will find Lovecraftian terrors, Aussie vampires, fell magic, ancient wisdom, wayward children, and twisted moments of desire gone horribly wrong. From the otherworldly threats of "The Song of Sighs" and "Only the...
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For fans of the weird and enchanting, Peter M Ball returns for a third collection of speculative fiction stories that dance along the borders between horror, fantasy, and science fiction. These Strange and Magic Things brings together fifteen tales that showcase why he's among the finest writers of the strange and fantastic working in Australia right now.Love is the Roar of a Chainsaw, Cutting Flesh in the Night - Their zombie survival kit started...
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5 spellbinding, awe-inspiring fantasy short stories from the imagination of Connor Whiteley. An International Bestselling writer, Connor presents 5 very fun and outstanding fantasy stories in this one volume.Includes:Game Of KingsWere In The WomanMissing GoddessMania About LoveDead DragonsLove gripping fantasy fiction? Love great stories? Connor gives you both layered on thick in this amazingly fun collection.BUY NOW!
11) Upside Down 3
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Broad, dark, funny, and terrifying, these 13 stories in volume 1 will not disappoint. They'll make you laugh (at another's misfortune), cry as a man gets taken away far too young, and cower in the corner under a blanket as the monster waits for the right time to come take you away. Volume 3 Titles Include:Walk of EchoesMy Dogs Keeps Farting and I Can't Make Him StopThree Twists of The CrownThe Desert of Last ChancesTipping the ScalesMisDirectionCryptic...
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This collection comprises 249 stories all under 500 words. We have revenge, luck and misfortune, sharp edges, sticky red hands, no faded circle of skin, twins, family heirlooms, legends of history, writer's block, Chelsea buns, alien hums, and scratches squeaks and barks. With stories in first, second and third-person points of view, the characters live out their dreams, cling to former lives, and discover more than they were expecting.
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Broad, dark, funny, and terrifying, these 13 stories in volume 1 will not disappoint. They'll make you laugh (at another's misfortune), cry as a man gets taken away far too young, and cower in the corner under a blanket as the monster waits for the right time to come take you away. Volume 2 Titles Include:Three Fingers of CheeseTurned Out & ForgottenDeath GateA Clochard Never Asks TwiceStuck On YouStrength In WeaknessThe Thirteenth RoomThe Scourged...
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
Doyle was a prolific writer; other than Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger and humorous stories.
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"Curious readers and fans of monsters and the macabre, get ready to bulk up your TBR piles! Sadie "Mother Horror" Hartmann has curated the best selection of modern horror books, including plenty of deep cuts. Indulge your heart's darkest desires to be terrified, unsettled, disgusted, and heartbroken with stories that span everything from paranormal hauntings and creepy death cults to small-town terrors and apocalyptic disasters. Each recommendation...
18) Wobble to death
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"London, 1879. Crowds have gathered at Islington's chilly Agricultural Hall to place their bets on who will become the next world champion in a six-day, 500-mile speedwalking race, the "wobble." When one of the highly favored contenders dies under suspicious circumstances, Sergeant Cribb also has a race on his hands-to pursue a ruthless murderer. Fifty years ago, Wobble to Death launched the writing career of one of the world's greatest crime fiction...
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Team JNPR stars in this short story collection based on Rooster Teeth's hit animation series! The world of Remnant is filled with horrific monsters bent on the destruction of humanity. Fortunately, the kingdoms of the world have risen to combat these forces by training powerful Huntsmen and Huntresses at academies around the planet. Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long are four such Huntresses in training. New short stories...
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"Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new edition of one of the greatest comic short story collections in the English language. This classic collection of linked stories feature some of the funniest episodes in the life of Bertie Wooster, gentleman, and Jeeves, his gentleman's gentleman--in which Bertie's terrifying Aunt Agatha stalks the pages, seeking whom she may devour, while Bertie's...
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