The Cosmic Express is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Jack Williamson is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Jack Williamson then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. Views: 615
Seeking a harbor against coming winter, ships Erebus and Terror are unaware of the unearthly being which has followed them from the shores of native England. For Commander James Fitzjames, an unending nightmare has begun.Nothing is going right for Eric Dirnam. His father has disappeared and he hardly even sees his mom anymore. Everything has changed and he wishes he could be the same happy-go-lucky fourteen year old boy he was before his life was flipped upside down. Just as things start to change for the better such as his soccer win and getting attention from a girl that he has a crush on, again things are changing. Someone has broken into his home and is after something but what? As Eric delves deeper into this mystery, he uncovers more about his identity. But who can he trust? And who is after him? He soon realizes that he has to adapt to his changing world but in doing so, he needs to retain who he really is. Views: 615
Janie thought she was a lone wolf until she met Roane. She believes he's her soul mate as he takes her into his home and his heart. But when she unlocks a hidden room, Janie discovers dark secrets that could threaten not only her life, but that of her unborn child.Broken Moon is an urban fantasy short story by Annie Bellet.Mystery writer Violet Carsten has spent most of her life behind the pages of a book, either reading one or writing one. When she inherits a house in the city she ends up getting much more than she bargained for! Through some amazing coffee, a real life mystery, an overprotective older brother, and a little bit of pepper spray, she finds the man of her dreams. Will she take a chance on love or will old fears keep her heart locked up tight? Views: 614
I have only one request," Kafka wrote to his publisher Kurt Wolff in 1913. "'The Stoker, ' 'The Metamorphosis, ' and 'The Judgment' belong together, both inwardly and outwardly. There is an obviousconnection among the three, and, even more important, a secret one, for which reason I would be reluctant to forego the chance of having them published together in a book, which might be called TheSons."
Seventy-five years later, Kafka's request is-granted, in a volume including these three classic stories of filial revolt as well as his own poignant "Letter to HisFather," another "son story" located between fiction and autobiography. A devastating indictment of the modern family, The Sons represents Kafka's most concentrated literary achievement as wellas the story of his own domestic tragedy.
Grouped together under this new title and in newly revised translations, these texts -- the like of which Kafka had never written before and (as he claimed atthe end of his life) would never again equal -- take on fresh, compelling meaning. "From the Trade Paperback edition." Views: 614
H.P. Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror features twenty of horror master H.P. Lovecraft's classic stories, among them some of the greatest works of horror fiction ever written, including: "The Rats in the Walls," "Pickman's Model," "The Colour out of Space," "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Dunwich Horror," "The Shadow over Innsmouth," "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Shadow out of Time," and "The Haunter of the Dark." Views: 613
A follow-up collection of poems continuing upon themes dealt with in "Before Dark, and After"--but concentrating more on the element of water than fire.Imagine being born in captivity with a crippling disability. Your life is in the hands of alien creatures that provide sustenance and affection. How much does your happiness mean?***WARNING*** Despite the title, this is a very sad story. Do not read if you do not want to cry.Please also note that Happy is a short story, approximately 7 pages in length and just over 2,100 words.This short story was written to bring awareness and inspiration. You can support this work by donating to your local no kill shelter. Views: 613
Sam is a quiet and lonely boy who had the misfortune to be born a few years before World War II. Finding shelter from German bomber planes is almost a daily part of his life now but he wonders when his luck will run out...The world's #1 (if not only) Big-Data Detective returns in yet another extremely unlikely (if not impossible) adventure. This time things that should never move are apparently moving, and hidden dangers are lurking just beneath the surface. Part Freakonomics, part Sherlock Holmes, part Doctor Who, part Errol Flynn, but 100% completely absurd, with a complicated reverse-polyamorous situation thrown into the mix, The Outlier series continues with "The Outlier #2, Migrants" another Dillon Sharif Tall Tale. Views: 612
"For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson's scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh After the publication of her short story "The Lottery" in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickly established as a master horror storyteller. This collection of classic and newly reprinted stories provides readers with more of her unsettling, dark tales, including the "The Possibility of Evil" and "The Summer People." In these deliciously dark stories, the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and seek, the loving wife hides homicidal thoughts and the concerned citizen might just be an infamous serial killer. In the haunting world of Shirley Jackson, nothing is as it seems and nowhere is safe, from the city streets to the crumbling country pile, and from the small-town apartment to the dark, dark woods. There's something sinister in suburbia. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators"-- Views: 611
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • “One of our most inventive purveyors of the form returns with pitch-perfect, genre-bending stories that stare into the abyss of our national character. . . . An exquisite work from a writer whose reach is galactic.”—Oprah Daily Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with his first collection of short stories since the New York Times bestseller Tenth of December.The “best short-story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose—wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned—Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collection of prismatic, resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre... Views: 610
Yon 'fore the now, the then was a'here. The beasties, an' ghoulies, an' ghosties ran freer.Amok an' away, we hid from the day. Runnin' at night, we doled out our fright. Twas not of our own strife; we were spoken to life.I be one o' the beasties what goes bump in the night!A short single.Yon 'fore the now, the then was a'here. The beasties, an' ghoulies, an' ghosties ran freer.Amok an' away, we hid from the day. Runnin' at night, we doled out our fright. Twas not of our own strife; we were spoken to life.I be one o' the beasties what goes bump in the night!Are our nightmares things of fantasy and imagination? Or does that which we dream of become real? What happens to a small girl when her nightmares do become real?A short single. Views: 609
The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker ? RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS in 1955, SEYMOUR ? An Introduction in 1959. Whatever their differences in mood or effect, they are both very much concerned with Seymour Glass, who is the main character in my still-uncompleted series about the Glass family. It struck me that they had better be collected together, if not deliberately paired off, in something of a hurry, if I mean them to avoid unduly or undesirably close contact with new material in the series. There is only my word for it, granted, but I have several new Glass stories coming along ? waxing, dilating ? each in its own way, but I suspect the less said about them, in mixed company, the better. Oddly, the joys and satisfactions of working on the Glass family peculiarly increase and deepen for me with the years. I can't say why, though. Not, at least, outside the casino proper of my fiction. Views: 608
A billionaire story unlike any other:She asks herself who he could possibly be, convinced that he would never notice her...convinced that no one ever does.She couldn’t have been more wrong.But what she never could have imagined is far from being the strangest part of this tale. For there are shadowy figures holding the strings offstage and the manipulation of Sara Renardine has only just begunA billionaire story unlike any other--She watches him every day. For two months she has spent each lunch hour studying the enigmatic man in a restaurant always filled to overflowing; yet, for two months he is there each day in a booth all to himself.Sara thinks she is safe as she drinks in every gorgeous detail reflected in the bar’s back mirror. She asks herself who he could possibly be, convinced that he would never notice her...convinced that no one ever does.She couldn’t have been more wrong.Chance brings them together and animal lust is unleashed. But what she never could have imagined is far from being the strangest part of this tale. For there are shadowy figures holding the strings offstage and the manipulation of Sara Renardine has only just begun.13,000 wordsAn excerpt:"Who in the hell do you think you are?" she said, wishing she could have shouted the words loudly enough to shatter the windows.Then, instead of raising her voice, her hand arced up in the shadows. It was slow, yet not, passing through the air as quick as an adder's strike, yet time had stilled in the near darkness and it was as though the air was as thick as syrup.Rather than slapping him hard across the face, Sara felt her wrist entrapped in an iron fist.And absurdly, she wondered what was written on the pages that drifted down to alight upon her feet while the shock of his viselike grip still vibrated down her arm.The beautiful lanterns of his eyes locked on to her own as he said, "Do you not know? Do you really not know?"His voice was calm, but his tone was glacial.-Careful...you're on thin ice-"I have no idea who you are," she said, then bit back the rest of what she wanted to say as his eyes softened."Then look at me," he said, his voice as calm as ever, "Right now, look at me and tell me who you think I am. The truth. All of it."Sara took a breath, then said, "You tell people what to do. You are so used to doing it, that you don't notice anymore."He stepped closer to her and the hand holding her wrist did not let go."You're arrogant. You think you're entitled."Another half step closer as he pulled her hand to his chest, forcing her palm against him. Forcing her to feel him.-There are cracks under your feet-"You think you own people."His other hand went to her shoulder and Sara could feel the strong beat of his heart under her palm."And, you are brave. You step in when you see someone in trouble."Then he touched the side of her neck and Sara's breath came more deeply."You are a knight. You saved me...."Pinned in the amber lights of his eyes, Sara knew that it was already too late, the uncertain footing she walked upon had turned to water as she felt herself drowning in his beautiful gaze.He bent down to her, his lips soft against her own, searching for truths other than her words.She pulled back from him, just enough to speak, her own lips brushing his as she said, "But, that doesn't give you the right."His mouth captured hers once more. Warm and velvety. She felt the light rough of a day old beard rasp gently against her skin as she kissed him back."You don't own me," she said, breaking away only to sigh as his hands slid down her sides, then back up again as he cupped both breasts. Strong thumbs drifted across the nipples studding her blouse, swelling even more under his touch."I told you I would give you cause for regret. Now, I shall give you reason for pleasure.”His voice was delicious in her ears, like warm honey as he continued, “And I can promise you that it will not be the last time, not for one nor the other.”Hands that could have crushed the bones of her wrist to powder only seconds before roamed freely upon her body. Strong fingers undid delicate pearl buttons."Turn around...now." Views: 607
Arthur Meadows fell into a downward spiral and lost everything after the voices and visions started.His average day consisted of bumming money on the street, and trying to forget his tattered life.But not every person he meets is all that they seem, and a seemingly chance encounter leads to a very different end to the day.This is a Spin-off story from my Novelette 'The Crazies'The Life and Times of Dread takes place in the world of the year 2114 where the United States has now been in a carefully negotiated Nuclear world war for over 50 years. The bursting populations of the Earth are herded into giant mega-cities, which sometimes become targets of nuclear destruction once they are nice and full. Dread lives in the Northern Bronx of New York on the ground level, and is a member of the Bronx gang called The Beatles. After the Beatles leader Clark Kent takes a liking to Christopher Robin Dread, (probably because his middle name is Robin,) Dread finds himself now the sidekick of a guy who wears a super hero outfit and thinks he's Batman. Dread is trained to swing around the infrastructure of the New York Mega-city and assists Batman with his obsession of fighting crime. The team of crime fighters soon find themselves over their heads when they uncover a plot by Washington DC to plant bombs in the New York Mega-City. Washington DC intends to blow New York up and blame the Asian Block Nations of an unauthorized nuclear strike in clear violation of the rules of nuclear war. This graphic novel by Davol White was written back in the early 1990’s, years before bombs went off in New York and were blamed on Asian nations. Views: 606
A little boy wants to play in the sprinkler on the hottest day of summer but Grandpa won't let him.Somewhere deep in her mind Christine Marsden is witnessing the murder of young girls.And now she has urges to hurt her own children.After a head injury which left her having nightmares and visions, Christine is convinced that something inside her brain has broken, and that she is slowly sinking into insanity.She is terrified of what she might be capable of. She fears that in losing her mind she will also lose her children and husband.Christine embarks on a desperate fight to try to halt the fracture of her mind before it’s too late, and in doing so, discovers the hidden truth behind the dark horrors she is experiencing. Views: 606
