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Best known for his masterpiece of horror, Dracula, Bram Stoker wrote a number of other novels and many short stories, all with supernatural themes or filled with a physical terror reminiscent of Poe. The title story, "Dracula's Guest," was originally part of the great novel but was excised and published separately. The accompanying stories, such as "The Squaw," "The Judge's House," and "The Burial of the Rats," are classic tales of the macabre in...
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Welcome to Dib!
Dib is an Earthlike planet, only slightly smaller, with shorter days and longer years, in orbit around twin suns.
On the continent of Geo, in the city of Velon in the nation of Inimata, a man lies dead in his study.
The Murdered Monk
In life, Professor Orno Linus was a world-class scholar: an astrophysicist, a dead-language linguist, and an expert in (and apparent true believer of) the religious concept of the Cull, i.e., the end...
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Thirty stories from thirty authors, including Jane Yolen, Mike Resnick & J. J. Steinfeld.
How will the world end? With aliens or angels? Or a ground hog? Bleak despair? Martial fervor? Or a belly laugh? Whatever the Apocalypse, It will be borne by people and their families and their dogs and most of all, it will challenge their notions of themselves. This anthology includes international award winning writers, poets, and thinkers that give you their...
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Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, with the help of his friend Hutchison Hatch, solves a variety of mysteries using cold, hard logic. No matter how twisted the trail of clues or how clever the perpetrator, Professor Van Dusen, aptly dubbed "The Thinking Machine," reminds us that "two and two make four, not some times, but all the time." So when a woman begs a surgeon to amputate part of her finger or when a pearl necklace disappears from a woman's...
65) Widdershins
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At first blush, Widdershins is a conventional haunted house story involving an unsuccessful writer, who moves into an empty house in hope that isolation will help his failing creativity. His sensitivity and imagination are enhanced by his seclusion, but his art, his only friend, and his sanity are all destroyed in the process...
The story can be read as narrating the gradual possession of the protagonist by a mysterious and possessive feminine spirit,...
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During its heyday, the Chelsea Hotel in New York City was a home and safe haven for Bohemian artists, poets, and musicians such as Bob Dylan, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Janis Joplin, and Dee Dee Ramone.
This oral history of the famed hotel peers behind the iconic façade and delves into the mayhem, madness, and brilliance that stemmed from the hotel in the 1980s and 1990s.
Providing a window into the late Bohemia of New York during that time,...
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Sir Henry Marquis, the Sleuth of St. James's Square, shines in these sixteen unique mystery and crime stories from Melville Davisson Post.Sir Henry Marquis, the chief of the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard, embraces the latest and greatest scientific methods of crime detection ranging from dactyloscopic (fingerprint identification) bureaus to photographie mitrique, and he has ample opportunity to utilize his skills in a range of...
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A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech-all in one place.
Generative AI, Web3, neurotech, reusable rockets to power the space economy-new technologies like these are reshaping organizations at the hybrid office, on factory floors, and in the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing now to take advantage of the new opportunities these technologies are creating-and avoid falling victim to disruption?
The Year in Tech 2024: The Insights...
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Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short-story genre, producing more than three hundred during his lifetime. These concise stories contain twists and shocking turns, and range from the fantastic and supernatural, with characters descending into madness and their most base desires, to the challenges of marriage and parenthood, and to the broader philosophical ruminations on the nature of regret and what it means to love.
The twenty-eight stories...
70) Laddertop 2
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Basic training is over. For eleven-year-old Robbi, the real work on the Laddertop station begins … even as its strange, dark secrets grow more compelling. With the help of mentally-linked robot companions, she and an elite crew of children perform the dangerous maintenance work on the Power Web. But only Robbi keeps having urgent dreams from The Givers, the alien species who bestowed upon humans all the Laddertop technology. Meanwhile, her best...
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The debut title of a new city-based anthology series featuring stories with speculative, sci-fi, and paranormal themes
As an incubator of the future, Los Angeles has long mesmerized writers from Philip K. Dick to Aldous Huxley. With its natural disasters, Hollywood artifice, staggering wealth and poverty, urban sprawl, and diversity, one can argue that Los Angeles is already so weird, surreal, irrational, and mythic that any fiction emerging from...
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Enjoy the traditions of holidays past with this classic collection of fun and touching stories. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, read by John Mawson.
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus by Francis Pharcellus Church, read by Paul Boehmer.
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, read by Paul Boehmer'Twas the Night before Christmas by Clement C. Moore, read by Gregory Itzin.
Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Dogs by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, read...
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English author Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) is considered by many aficionados the unquestioned master of the modern ghost story, and several of his tales have served as source material for multiple creepy film versions. He broke new ground by abandoning many of the conventions of gothic mysteries, and substituting contemporary settings, situations, and characters. Nevertheless, as a Cambridge medieval scholar, James was steeped in the esoteric...
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New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to the prequels to Ender's Game following The Swarm with The Hive, the second audiobook in the Second Formic War.
Card and Johnston continue the fast-paced hard science fiction history of the Formic Wars—the alien invasions of Earth's Solar System that ultimately led to Ender Wiggin's total victory in Ender's Game.
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“I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of...
“I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of...