Category: Short Stories

By Charles Christian

Prickly area visitors, every one with their very own astounding mystery, locate they've got extra in universal than they firstly concept - and never simply their love of early cinema. however the course of real love, and twenty third century expertise (much like today’s) doesn't constantly run easily. Can they belief one another and will they belief their rescuers?

The not going pair of twentieth century movie buffs be aware of each motion picture finishing ever made yet the place will they be while the credit roll?

Secret shipment has been nominated for the British technology Fiction organization Awards 2014.

About the Author

Charles Christian is a former barrister and Reuters correspondent became award-winning expertise journalist, publication writer, blogger, new media maven, technological know-how fiction writer, storyteller and keynote speaker.

His dystopian sci fi and concrete myth tales are Gothic stories for the twenty first century - with a feeling of humour and a topical twist.

Charles lives in Norfolk together with his spouse, Jane, 3 canine and a horse.

By Thisbe Nissen

As summer season starts off on Osprey Island, arrangements on the inn -- the island’s one and in simple terms lodge — are underway for the busy season. On upkeep and house responsibilities there’s Lance and Lorna Squire, Osprey locals and raging drinkers; and their irrepressible son Squee. There are collage boys to attend tables and Irish ladies to scrub rooms. and some strange returnees, too: Suzy Chizek, unmarried mother and daughter of the Lodge’s proprietors, who’s trying to find a parentally funded holiday; and Roddy Jacobs, one other former neighborhood, who has come again after a mysterious twenty-year absence. but if tragedy moves, darkish secrets and techniques explode, dividing the island group over the destiny of a tender boy all of sudden extra at risk of his violent father than ever. within the uniquely ephemeral surroundings of a summer time inn, Thisbe Nissen unfolds, with charecteristic heat and grace, an ever-deepening tale of misplaced loves and located romance, of loyalties and betrayals; and of lingering–sometimes fleeting–joy.

Bizarre stories has constantly been the preferred and sought-after of all pulp magazines. Its mixture of unique myth, horror, technological know-how fiction, suspense, and the simply undeniable indescribable has enthralled generations of readers during the world.
Collected listed here are thirteen of the easiest brief tales released in bizarre Tales' first 12 months of e-book, 1923 -- classics through many that might later play a vital part within the detailed journal, resembling H.P. Lovecraft, Frank Owen, and Farnsworth Wright.

Considering that its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker–literally. because the domestic of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M.F.K. Fisher, who virtually invented American foodstuff writing, the journal tested a practice that's carried ahead this day via irrepressible literary gastronomes, together with Calvin Trillin, invoice Buford, Adam Gopnik, Jane Kramer, and Anthony Bourdain. Now, during this critical assortment, The New Yorker dishes up a banquet of scrumptious writing on foods and drinks, pro with a beneficiant sprint of cartoons.

Whether you’re within the temper for snacking on humor items and cartoons or for savoring vintage profiles of serious cooks and nice eaters, those choices, from all ages of the recent Yorker’s fabled eighty-year heritage, are bound to fulfill each style. There are memoirs, brief tales, tell-alls, and poems–ranging in tone from candy to bitter and in topic from soup to nuts.

M.F.K. Fisher will pay homage to “cookery witches,” these mysterious chefs who own “an uncanny energy over food,” whereas John McPhee valiantly trails an inveterate forager and is rewarded with stewed persimmons and white-pine-needle tea. there's Roald Dahl’s recognized tale “Taste,” within which a wine snob’s palate is available in for a few unwelcome scrutiny, and Julian Barnes’s creative story of a lifelong connoisseur who is going on a really strange vitamin for nonetheless extra bizarre purposes. Adam Gopnik asks if French delicacies is completed for, and Calvin Trillin investigates no matter if humans can truly style the variation among crimson wine and white. We trip with Susan Orlean as she distills the essence of Cuba within the tale of a unmarried eating place, and with Judith Thurman as she investigates the arcane practices of Japan’s tofu masters. towards domestic, Joseph Mitchell celebrates the outdated big apple culture of the beefsteak dinner, and Mark Singer shadows the city’s prime fisherman-chef.

Selected from the magazine’s ample larder, Secret Ingredients celebrates all varieties of gustatory satisfaction.

By Isak Dinesen

Initially released in 1934, Seven Gothic stories, the 1st publication by way of "one of the best and so much singular artists of our time" (The Atlantic), is a contemporary vintage. listed here are seven beautiful stories combining the willing mental perception attribute of the fashionable brief tale with the haunting secret of the nineteenth-century Gothic story, within the culture of writers equivalent to Goethe, Hoffmann, and Poe.

By H. P. Lovecraft

Probably the most influential practitioners of yank horror, H.P. Lovecraft encouraged the paintings of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker. As he perfected his mastery of the macabre, his works built from seminal fragments into stated masterpieces of terror. This quantity lines his chilling occupation and includes:

IMPRISONED WITH THE PHARAOHS--Houdini seeks to bare the demons that inhabit the Egyptian night.
AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS--An unsuspecting excursion uncovers a urban of untold terror, buried underneath an Antarctic wasteland.

Plus, for the 1st time in any Del Rey edition:

HERBERT WEST: REANIMATOR--Mad experiments yield hideous leads to this, the muse for the cult movie Re-Animator.
COOL AIR--An icy condo hides secrets and techniques no guy dares unlock.
THE negative outdated MAN--The intruders search a fortune yet locate in simple terms death!

AND TWENTY-FOUR extra BLOOD-CHILLING TALES

From the alternate Paperback edition.

By Peter Robinson

Now not secure after darkish comprises all of Peter Robinson's brief crime stories, together with 3 tales approximately Inspector Banks, a private-eye tale set in Florida, and different tales of crime and secret. it isn't astounding that the identify tale is an workout in noir suspense, as is the fashionable vintage "Innocence," which gained Crime author of Canada's top brief tale Award. This ebook additionally comprises crime/detective tales set some time past, together with one written particularly for this assortment.

Whether he writes natural detective tales or heartbreakingly noir stories, Peter Robinson is a considerate author who's the most effective plotters and stylists within the business.

By Alice Munro

WINNER OF THE  NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013

Spanning nearly thirty years and settings that variety from giant towns to small cities and farmsteads of rural Canada, this remarkable assortment brings jointly twenty-eight tales by way of a author of unheard of wit, generosity, and emotional strength. In her Selected Stories, Alice Munro makes lives that appear small spread until eventually they're published to be as spacious as prairies and locates the moments of affection and betrayal, hope and forgiveness, that vary these lives endlessly. To learn those stories--about a touring salesman and his little ones on an impromptu trip; an deserted girl making a choice on among seduction and solitude--is to succumb to the spell of a author who enchants her readers totally whilst she restores them to their truest selves.

A television fact convey host is helping to revive an East finish track corridor and uncovers the dreadful mystery of Mrs nighttime and her Animal Comedians. . . . A historian travels to Switzerland to ghost the autobiography of an exiled Balkan king and encounters a sinister cult. . . . The grasp of an Oxford university attempts to introduce a doubtful piece of contemporary sculpture into his collage chapel with dire effects. . . . an odd assembly occurs on a taking part in box among an officer on depart from the trenches and his former headmaster. . . .
The settings and characters in Reggie Oliver’s 5th choice of ‘strange’ tales are as different and strange as ever, notwithstanding, as in earlier volumes, the theatre types the milieu of a couple of his stories. however the theatres will not be simply English ones, within the provinces and the West finish: one is at the Black Sea; one other in post-colonial Kenya. issues are both diverse, yet underlying all is a deep feel of the non secular under-currents slightly under the outside of daily lifestyles, and the precariousness of ‘normality’.

Reggie Oliver is an English playwright, biographer and author of ghost tales. His paintings has seemed in a couple of anthologies, together with the Year’s top fable and Horror and The huge ebook of top New Horror.

Mrs dead night and different tales comprises: "Mrs Midnight", "Countess Otho", "Meeting with Mike", "The Dancer within the Dark", "Mr Pigsny", "The Brighton Redemption", "You don't have anything to Fear", "The Philosophy of the Damned", "The Mortlake Manuscript", "The Look", "The Giacometti Crucifixion","A Piece of Elsewhere", "Minos or Rhadamanthus".

By L. Frank Baum

What should be higher than a narrative in regards to the unforgettable characters from the land of oz.? Six tales, after all! that includes everyone's favourite friends--Dorothy, Toto, the Wizard, the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman--these little stories comprise a similar Baum magic, with a number of particular surprises no longer printed within the different ounces books. additionally incorporated are adventures with Tiktok, the Clockwork guy; the consistently starving Hungry Tiger; the superb Jack Pumpkinhead; the outstanding wood Sawhorse; and the paranormal princess Ozma of Oz.

Discover how Dorothy and Toto break out from lower than the ability of the bad substantial, Crinklink, sign up for clever Princess Ozma and the Wizard as they fit wits with 3 mischievous Imps; stick to the adventures of Jack Pumpkinhead and the Sawhorse as they courageous an excellent, gloomy wooded area to avoid wasting misplaced childrens. even if you might have visited the enchanted land of oz. sooner than, you are going to relish those and 3 different fanciful and fascinating tales.

For over 90 years L. Rank Baum's fairyland has stirred the imaginations of readers of every age. Now, during this lavishly produced version that includes all forty-five of John R. Neill's impressive full-color illustrations, younger readers and listeners will take pleasure in six little oz. adventures concerning the cherished people who make oz. so interesting and enduring.

Afterword through Peter Glassman. This deluxe selection of six brief tales was once written in particular for starting readers and lines forty-five sparkling full-color plates. all people will take pleasure in those impossible to resist adventures concerning the cherished characters who make the land of ounces so pleasant and enduring. A Books of ask yourself vintage.