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This scorching collection from award-winning author Thom Jones features his best new short fiction alongside a selection of outstanding stories from three previous books. Jones's stories are full of high-octane, prose-drunk entertainment. His characters are grifters and drifters, rogues and ne'er-do-wells, would-be do-gooders whose human frailties usually get the better of them. Some are lovable, others are not, but each has an indelible and irresistible voice. They include Vietnam soldiers, amateur boxers, and veterans of the psych ward, and more.

Take a crime-filled tour of Manhattan with this collection of all-new mystery stories compiled and edited by Mary Higgins Clark - with contributions by Lee Child, Jeffrey Deaver, Ben H. Winters, and others.

In this eerie, enchanting compilation, Stephen King takes listeners down a road less travelled (for good reason) in the gripping 'Riding the Bullet'. Terror becomes déjà vu all over again when you get 'That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French'. 'LT's Theory of Pets' will make you stop and think before giving a dog to a loved one. And there are 11 more stories that will keep you awake until dawn.

A Yellow Duster follows the story of a couple that has recently come into a large amount of money. They spend a year traveling with an old friend of the husband, who notices that the husband is never without a certain collection of curios. The friend is fascinated by the curios, and decides that he needs to talk to the husband about the collection. When he asks about a specific piece, a yellow duster, the husband recounts the tale of how he discovered his wife's true love for him.

Here are two complete audiobooks by Denis Johnson, narrated by Will Patton. Listen to both Train Dreams, and Jesus’ Son, as well as an excerpt from Denis Johnson’s National Book Award-winning Tree of Smoke.

Winesburg, Ohio is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small town at the end of the nineteenth century. In the perfectly imagined world of Winesburg, an archetypal small American town, Anderson reveals the hidden passions that turn ordinary lives into fonts of unforgettable emotions. Played out against a deceptively placid backdrop, Anderson's loosely connected stories coalesce, like chapters, into a powerful novel of love and loss.

Transport yourself to a world of fantasy and magic, villainy and heroism, and stories that will enchant children and adults alike with The Brother's Grimms’ Fairy Tales. This classic collection contains the stories of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, German storytellers whose fairy tales have been the inspiration for film, television, and literature for nearly two centuries.

A collection featuring three classic horror stories, read by actor Earl Hammond: "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Cask of Amontillado", and "The Black Cat".

Movie star Mary Marvell consults with Hercule Poirot after receiving threatening letters that warn her to return her diamond, the famous "Western Star", to its rightful owner. But who does own the diamond, and is it even the genuine article?

From the eerily "real", almost holographic evocations of historical figures like Lyndon Johnson and over-televised game-show hosts and late-night comedians to the title story, in which terminal punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism, David Foster Wallace renders the incredible comprehensible, the bizarre normal, the absurd hilarious, and the familiar strange.

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旅行先から急電によって兄の見舞いに来た道太は、しばらくの間、廓を営むおひろの家の二階に滞在することになる。姪の縁談をめぐるごたごたで、誰にも会いたくなかったのだ。その家にはおひろの姉お絹が世話焼きに来ていた。事情が許せば、彼女と同棲しうる時の幸福を想像したりするが、道太は何をするでもなしに日を送る。

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1931年に発表された短編小説。ソヴィエト・ロシアに住む6歳の男の子ミーチャを中心に、1930年代初頭の社会状況、特に労働者家庭の日常生活と子育て環境が描写される。

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楠山が体験した神田での生活と、明治30年代から昭和初期にかけての神田の変遷を描いたエッセイ。昔も今も神田という街の外観は大きく変わってはいないものの、町の構造や住民は大きく変わったと指摘する。神田はかつて、浅草と並ぶ大衆娯楽の中心地であったが、今では娯楽の中心は本郷や下町へと移り、神田の賑わいは次第に失われつつある。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

災いをもたらすイノシシに困った王様は、退治した者に一人娘を妻にやるとお触れを出す。二人の兄弟が名乗り出て、兄は西から、弟は東から森の中に入ることに。弟は小人からもらった黒い槍で怪物を退治する。妬んだ兄は、王様のところへ持って行く途中で弟を殴り殺し、橋の下に埋める。数年後、ヒツジ飼いが橋の下で白い骨を一つ見つけると、削って笛にする。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

コスモスの花が咲き乱れている。暗い土の底で、土の上へ出てみたいともぐらの子供が母に言うと、太陽の光を見たら危ないから夜まで待つことに。山の端に出た月が庭の真上に見えてくる頃、もぐらの母子は土の上に出る。赤、白、深紅、桃色のコスモスの花が月の光に浮いて見える。

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辰吉は幼い頃に両親を亡くし、おばあさんに育てられた。辰吉は他の子供たちが親や兄弟と過ごす様子を見て、「自分ばかりは、どうして、独ぼっちなのであろう」と寂しさを感じていた。おばあさんは辰吉に、母親が星になって空から見守っていると教える。それから辰吉は毎晩空を見上げ、優しそうな赤い星を母親だと信じるようになる。

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身寄りのない少年は、病気で働けず、死ぬことさえ考えていた。ある日、おばあさんから西の山奥にある温泉の話を聞き、そこへ行くことを決意する。少年は旅費を稼ぐため、四つ街道で道案内をしてお金を集めはじめる。木賃宿で他の乞食たちと出会うが、彼らの脅しにあい、宿を追い出されてしまう。途中、石を積んだ車を押す男に出会う。

Ghosts, specters, wraiths.... Restless undead spirits wail beneath the full moon and reach out for you from the swirling mists. The pain and loneliness of death drives them to seek the one thing they cannot have - the spark of life within your soul.... Scare Street presents volumes seven through nine of Terror in the Shadows, gathered into one spine-tingling tome. More than 30 stories of supernatural fear and suspense lurk with this macabre collection. Each one packed with a ghoulish assortment of creatures from beyond the grave.

During the winter solstice, on the shortest day and longest night of the year, the ancient burial chamber at Newgrange is empowered. Its mystifying source is a haunting tale told by locals. Professor O’Kelly believes an archaeologist’s job is to make known only what can be proved. He is undeterred by ghost stories, idle speculation, and caution. Much to the chagrin of the living souls in County Meath. As well as those entombed in the sacred darkness of Newgrange itself. They’re determined to protect the secret of the light, guarded for more than 5,000 years.

How well do you know people? How well do they know you? Six award-winning, bestselling authors of suspense explore the lingering threat of secrets and the inescapable fear that they can’t stay buried forever. No matter how dark the hiding place, the consequences of revealing the truth can bring out the worst in lovers, friends, family, and strangers.