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【評議員達は二度特別会議を開いて重大な決議をした。・第一条。何事に依らず古来定まりたる事を変更すべからず。・第二条。本市以外には一切取るに足る事なしと認む。・第三条。市民は先祖伝来の時計及キヤベツを忘却すべからず。】 エドガー・アラン・ポーのなんとも異様で滑稽な作品です。原題は「THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY」。オランダ・スピイスブルク市の話です。最後に時計が十三時を打った時、そこでいったい何が起こったのか…。森鴎外の翻訳でお楽しみください。 ※本作品は発表時の未熟な時代背景から、今日の社会では一般的でなく、不適切と思われる表現が含まれている箇所がございます。しかし作品のオリジナル性を最大限に尊重し、なるべく当時のまま忠実に再現することを優先いたしました。(C)2008青空文庫

Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N. Owen. Over dinner, a record begins to play, and the voice of an unseen host accuses each person of hiding a guilty secret. That evening, former reckless driver Tony Marston is found murdered by a deadly dose of cyanide. The tension escalates as the survivors realise the killer is not only among them but is preparing to strike again...and again.

『銀座の恋の物語』妻子ある中年サラリーマンが銀座のホステスから二十万円の融資を頼まれ応じるのだが・・・・干魚と漏電』電気代の集金に来た男に夫人がここに越して来てから電気代が異常に高いので電気メーターが壊れているのではないかと調査を依頼したのだが・・・・。

日常生活に忍び寄る恐怖を映し出す奇才・H・P・ラヴクラフトが源流を作った“クトゥルー神話”の一部と見なされる短編作品 男ふたりがカフェで話をしている。しゃべりかけている男の名前はサーバー。聞いているのがエリオット。人間関係で心がぐらついているサーバーのことを、エリオットは心配している。そして、その話題の中心にいるのがリチャード・アプトン・ピックマンというひとりの画家だ。サーバーがおかしくなったのは、そのピックマンのアトリエに行ってかららしい。いったいその場所で何があったのか…? 「顔なんだよ、エリオット、あの呪われた顔なんだ。あれがカンバスのなかからにらんでて、涎を垂らしてて、まるで生きて息をしてるみたいなんだ! うああ、やつらが生きてるんじゃないかって本気で思えるんだ! あのいやらしい魔法使いは、絵の具でもって地獄の炎を目覚めさせた。その絵筆は悪夢を生み出す杖なんだよ」 ピックマンの描く絵とはいったい…!?

少年の底知れぬ不可解さを描いた「デジ・ボウイ」。「都会人の異常な心理」を巧みに描いた直木賞作家の傑作短編

An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number generator. The new quantum computer system is foolproof. But someone on the inside is no fool. For once the odds may not favor the house - unless human ingenuity isn’t entirely a thing of the past.

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own family. He employs journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history.

Likable antiques dealer Joseph Bridgeman is back in the present and dreaming of a quiet life. But when a mysterious and enigmatic time traveler arrives in his shop, Joe learns that his first trip was just the beginning and this time, the rules of the game have changed. Blackmailed into accepting a new mission, Joe is flung back to 1960s London where he comes face-to-face with a ruthless gangster and witnesses the brutal murder of an innocent woman. Joe knows better than most that death can be reversed and the final chapter is sometimes where the story actually begins.

Who exactly is Danziger? He's a writer of letters for illiterate immigrants on Manhattan's Lower East Side - "a steadfast practitioner of concealing and forgetting" for his clients, and perhaps for himself: He hints at a much worldlier past. What and whoever he really is or has been, he has a seemingly boundless knowledge of the city and its denizens. And he knows much more than the mere identity of the floating corpse.

It's another holiday and Mayor Randall Shiffley has turned Caerphilly, Virginia, into Spooky City, USA. The residents are covering every window with cobwebs and roaming the streets in costume to entertain the tourists, and Meg's grandfather is opening a new 'Creatures of the Night' exhibit in the zoo. When a real body at the zoo and a suspicious fire at the Haunted House threaten to mar the town's creepy fun, it's up to Meg Langslow to save Halloween.

Rich and flamboyant Honeybelle Hensley, the most colorful character in Mule Stop, Texas, dies a suspicious death and enrages the whole town by leaving her worldly fortune to the most undeserving recipient - her dog. The incorrigible Miss Ruffles is a Texas cattle cur, not a cuddly lapdog. But now Miss Ruffles is in danger, and it's up to Sunny McKillip, the unwilling dogsitter, to keep her safe.

Ernst Grip, of the Swedish security police, has no idea why he's been dispatched to a remote American military base in the Indian Ocean. Met by FBI agent Shauna Friedman, he learns that the US wants him to determine whether a prisoner they're holding is a Swedish citizen. The detainee is a suspect in an Islamist-inspired terror attack in the US.

Rodney Schmuck and his wife, Cleo, Hillside Manor's latest guests, seem completely ordinary. Judith McMonigle Flynn is touched to hear that the 40-something couple is in town to visit family. Rodney has come to visit his mother - who, he claims, is none other than Judith herself! Shocked to meet a son she's certain she never had, she insists he's made a mistake. Then Rodney shows her proof: a birth certificate from Norway General Hospital listing Judith Anne Grover as his mother.

Adventurous in her work as one of Manhattan's hottest interior decorators, Kit Finn couldn't be tamer in her personal life. So, while on vacation in the Florida Keys, Kit resolves to do something risky for once. Flirting with Matt Healy is one thing. Going back to his room after their date is another. Instead Matt offers to cook her dinner when they're both back in the city. But when Kit arrives at his luxury apartment ready for the date of a lifetime, who is the man who opens the door? Kit's usually so good at reading people. How could she have been taken in by the deceptions of a con man?

Natty and Sean Wainwright have a rock-solid marriage and family. When their younger daughter falls ill on an overseas school trip, Natty rushes to her side. Luckily, Natty's best friend from college, Eve Dalladay, is visiting and offers to stay with Sean to lend a hand in the Wainwright household. But Natty returns home to find that Sean has fallen in love with Eve. Natty attempts to start anew, but Eve is there to knock her down again.

Lara Chandler has come home to the Rocking B Ranch - though not for Carson Blackridge. Four years ago he cruelly rejected her, and her love turned to hate. But the chance to research the history of the ranch on a business footing is one she just can't pass up. Carson is waiting, though, and he is determined to show her that he's long regretted the way he treated her.

Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: private investigator Philip Marlowe. He is willing to help a man down on his luck, but later Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe is drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA's Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth?

「奥様のほうでは、少しも御存じのない男から、突然、このようなぶしつけなお手紙を差し上げます罪を、幾重にもお許しくださいませ――」 美しき閨秀作家・佳子のもとに、一通の分厚い封書が届く。ファンから原稿が送られてきたものと思い封を開けるが、奇妙なことに、原稿用紙には表題はおろか署名すらない。そして、突然「奥様」という呼びかけの言葉で始まっていた。気味悪く思いながらも読み進めていく佳子だったが、そこに書かれていたのは、椅子職人だという男の、驚くべき告白だった……。推理小説、そして怪奇小説の名手として知られる鬼才・江戸川乱歩。2014年に生誕120年を迎えるのを機に、乱歩の短編の中でも随一の知名度を誇る「人間椅子」をオーディオブック化しました。朗読するのは、名優・篠井英介。美しい言葉で描写された仄暗い作品世界を、時に繊細に、時に大胆に表現します。奇抜な設定、そして意表を突く結末をお楽しみください。

私立未来世紀大学。就職活動に出遅れた４年生の城崎あかねは、面接に落ちまくり、意気消沈ぎみの毎日を送っている。そんな折、夢科学研究所のホームページに、「夢が売られている」という情報が入る。

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of the year. But by the morning there was one passenger fewer. An American lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.