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  • Vengeful Hank and Other Shortweird Stories
    Marcel St. Pierre
    A time-travel prototype lands in a Viking village. A horse-riding fiddler crab reveals his secret. A despotic tyrant is confronted by a penguin. Each story is 'an imaginative gem... funny, charming, surprising' (Don Ferguson, Royal Canadian Air Farce) with a writing style that’s 'tight, airy and whimsical'(Colleen McKie, Lavender Lines Book Review). In Vengeful Hank & Other Sho...
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    12,10 €

  • The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories
    Bernardo Esquinca
    In ’The Secret Life of Insects’, a forensic entomologist tries to solve the murder of his wife, who impossibly seems to have been killed in a forest at the same time she was asleep in bed with him. The husband in ’The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife’ becomes concerned by his wife’s strange behavior, which includes sleepwalking, muttering strange phrases, and a bizarre erotic fasc...
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    43,23 €

  • The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories
    Bernardo Esquinca
    In ’The Secret Life of Insects’, a forensic entomologist tries to solve the murder of his wife, who impossibly seems to have been killed in a forest at the same time she was asleep in bed with him. The husband in ’The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife’ becomes concerned by his wife’s strange behavior, which includes sleepwalking, muttering strange phrases, and a bizarre erotic fasc...
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    24,02 €

  • Scenes of Bohemian Life
    Henry Murger / Robert Holton
    This book is a new translation of Henry Murger’s influential Scènes de la vie de bohème, first published in French in 1851. ...
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    158,29 €

  • Mysteries and Misadventures
    Aaron Mullins
    Thrilling Scottish mystery stories with a twist: Step into the murky world of the Scottish Highlands, where secrets lie buried in rugged landscapes and the past refuses to remain silent. In this collection of ten gripping Scottish short stories, mystery and intrigue unfurl like heather across the hills, and brazen characters unfold their murderous plans. From strange towns to h...
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    12,99 €

  • Words Worth Reading
    Diane Wordsworth
    In this issue: Short Story: The Girl on the BenchNovella: Mardi Gras – a Toni & Bart time-travel taleShort Story (Series): The Ace of Wands – a short  Tarot taleShort Story: The Most Scariest Night of the YearNovel Excerpt: Night Crawler – Part 1 of 4From the Archives: The Spirit of the Wind ...
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    11,44 €

  • Not Buried Deep Enough
    Gary Robbe
    We all have nightmares buried in our psyche. Gary Robbe uncovers thirteen that weren’t buried deep enough... WWI soldiers encounter ghouls in the wastes of No Man’s Land. Siblings in rural Appalachia are haunted by their dying mother’s last request. A family discovers that tearing down an old house won’t make it go away. And the dreams only get darker from there.Gary’s striking...
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    11,23 €

  • The Curious Trial of Dr. Allen Fine
    Joe Shrager
    Author Joe Shrager, MD, doctor and playwright, offers his latest masterpiece 'The Curious Trial of Dr. Allen Fine'. Mr. Motis was seeing Dr. Fine for a rare skin disease. Treatment included ultraviolet light sessions in an ultraviolet light box four times a week. Mr. Motis was given strict instructions on how to stand in the light box, so that he would not get burned. When he f...
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    9,22 €

  • Way Of The Ghosts
    Jesse Calnan
    Bring out your inner ghoul as you read this entertaining compilation of ghost stories, perfect for a rainy-day scare, a quick break from reality, or to enthrall your guests around a campfire. You’ll enjoy embarking into the spirit world with stories that will draw you in and hold tight to your imagination. Which story will make the hairs on the back of your neck rise? Civil war...
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    10,30 €

  • 52 Stories In 2023 - Volume Three
    Michael Kingswood
    Action. Adventure. Horror. Romance. And just plain fun.All of those and more await in this collection of ten works of fiction, written as part of a great challenge to complete 52 stories in 2023.Come join the adventure of the year, and sink into engrossing stories set in imaginative worlds. You’ll be glad you did. ...
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    11,90 €

  • Sleep Tight Satellite
    Carol Guess
    Central to Sleep Tight Satellite is the theme of queer chosen family. This positive form of connection contrasts with violent pseudo-communities formed by policing, government control, and technological surveillance. Characters struggle to survive the pandemic, but their survival skills were honed long before the Covid-19 outbreak. There’s a gritty realism to the odd jobs chara...
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    19,68 €

  • The Mad Road
    Laurie Cusack
    A collection of Irish short stories that rocks the soul. One negligent accident on a building site and a blacklist snares two young Irish lads new to London. The world of Irish dance enchants a father who goes all out for his girl. An old Irish man dies totally alone and Matt, his trippy bereavement officer, is cracking at the seams. Rites of passage for a new arrival on the dr...
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    18,29 €

  • An Unsettled Score
    Christopher L. DelGuercio
    An Unsettled Score is a collection of short works by award-nominated author Christopher L. DelGuercio. This, his first collection, includes twenty twisted visions of speculative fiction spanning thrilling adventures on far flung, alien worlds and dystopian futurescapes, to mind-bending surrealities and nightmarish encounters with evil, to the bitingly satirical and overtly comi...
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    15,72 €

  • Progressive Push-Me-Ups
    Hy Stones
    The stories in Progressive Push-Me-Ups, even the personal pieces, entertain, stimulate, and ask for more. As you enter the world of each tale, or the lived experience of others, you live vicariously in new situations. In this way you, even as a seasoned story reader, still expand your boundaries. Whether in work/study in secondary and post-secondary schools, or striving as achi...
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    20,19 €

  • Progressive Push-Me-Ups
    Hy Stones
    The stories in Progressive Push-Me-Ups, even the personal pieces, entertain, stimulate, and ask for more. As you enter the world of each tale, or the lived experience of others, you live vicariously in new situations. In this way you, even as a seasoned story reader, still expand your boundaries. Whether in work/study in secondary and post-secondary schools, or striving as achi...
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    32,67 €

  • Letargo
    Santiago J. Miranda Jovellar
    ¿Quién es Santiago J. Miranda Jovellar?Primero diremos que nació en Zaragoza un 2 de diciembre en 1959, en una fresca mañana en que la nieve cubría el suelo de tan maravillosa ciudad.En Zaragoza se crio, estudió y cursó la carrera de Magisterio en la rama de filología inglesa. Trabajó en enseñanza concertada, privada y pública durante 25 años.Es un amante de la lectura y, desde...
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    17,97 €

  • One At A Time
    Allen Wittenborn
    This potpourri of short reads explores the lives of people from a range of backgrounds, locations, and time periods. They include true cases and imaginary ones. Some of the protagonists do well, others not so well. You’ll find stories that are one-hundred percent factual, some purely imaginary, others a bit of each-creative nonfiction. Some end ambiguously or have no end at all...
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    9,12 €

  • Pre-Approved for Haunting
    Patrick Barb
    In this terrifyingly relatable and surprisingly terrifying collection of short stories, Pre-Approved for Haunting spotlights supposedly familiar terrors and fears in new and unexpected ways. ...
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    14,67 €

  • Cold, Black, and Infinite
    Todd Keisling
    Down here in the dark lies a vast and twisted landscape where the wicked, wistful, and profane coalesce. This is where the lonely and lost face their demons, where anxious paranoias are made manifest, and where mundane evil wears a human face. For readers, the sixteen stories found within Cold, Black, & Infinite serve as a harrowing glimpse into the nightmarish imagination of T...
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    17,05 €

  • Stories to Read at Night
    Paco Martín / Jonathan Dunne
    This volume contains four of the best short stories by Spanish National Book Award winner Paco Martín. In 'The New Fire', a commune has been set up in an abandoned village. One of the residents, Mr Mirión, has a kind of totem pole in his yard, which the narrator and his friend would like to use for the St John’s bonfire, but they’re afraid to approach him. In 'Fina', a local do...
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    20,12 €

  • Moments in the Private Room
    Kudzai Mhangwa
    Moments in the Private Room is a piercing exploration of Zimbabwean society by the debutant author, Kudzai Mhangwa. As his creative lens moves through time and circumstances in an uncanny yet authentic voice that manages to be both satirical and heartfelt, each story is poignantly nuanced and articulates something most of us have likely felt at some point in our lives. From the...
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    15,50 €

  • Minerva
    Antonio Gámez Robles
    Durante la década de los ochenta escribí más de mil versos y algunos cuentos para niños. En la actualidad me inclino por escribir relatos cortos, inspirados en noticias de sociedad, sueños y hechos reales. Siendo mi principal ilusión poder transmitirlo al lector de una manera sencilla, minuciosa y fácil de entender a la hora de leerlo. 10 ...
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    12,00 €

  • Dragon Palace
    Hiromi Kawakami / Ted Goossen
    Included in The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2023Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and destiny.From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this otherworldly collection of eight stories, each a masterpiece of transformation, infused with humor, sex, and t...
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    46,29 €

  • Dragon Palace
    Hiromi Kawakami / Ted Goossen
    Included in The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2023Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and destiny.From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this otherworldly collection of eight stories, each a masterpiece of transformation, infused with humor, sex, and t...
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    16,84 €

  • CHILDREN OF THE BOOK
    Isabella Hawthorne
    In a world shrouded by darkness, where the very essence of hope has been outlawed, emerges a tale of unwavering faith, unbreakable unity, and the indomitable strength of the human spirit. 'Children of the Book,' penned by the masterful storyteller Isabella Hawthorne, invites you on a journey through a dystopian landscape where the forbidden becomes the foundation for a revoluti...
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    12,14 €

  • The SideRoad Kids-Book 2
    Sharon Kennedy
    The SideRoad Kids Book 2: A Summer of Discovery takes place throughout the summer of 1958 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Readers familiar with The SideRoad Kids: Tales from Chippewa County will be reacquainted with their favorite twelve-year-old characters and their discoveries. Blew learns who his father was. Flint discovers why Uncle Leo is mean. Shirley shares her fears with...
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    16,88 €

  • The SideRoad Kids-Book 2
    Sharon Kennedy
    The SideRoad Kids Book 2: A Summer of Discovery takes place throughout the summer of 1958 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Readers familiar with The SideRoad Kids: Tales from Chippewa County will be reacquainted with their favorite twelve-year-old characters and their discoveries. Blew learns who his father was. Flint discovers why Uncle Leo is mean. Shirley shares her fears with...
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    27,36 €

  • 11 palabras
    Julia Wong Kcomt
    ¿Cómo se afronta una enfermedad desde la literatura? Desde una amalgama de estilos y temas, 11 palabras desencadenan una profunda reflexión que da forma a cuentos, narrativas y textos con aire poético, que Julia Wong Kcomt teje con la versatilidad que caracteriza su obra.La segunda parte del libro es una respuesta a estas palabras, una exploración inspirada en Las metamorfosis ...
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    13,52 €

  • Split Decision
    David Perlmutter
    A universe of humanized dogs. One mighty, unethical adventurer One teenaged robot with a heart of gold When they fight, who will survive? ...
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    9,60 €

  • The Insomniac Book Club
    Sky Locke
    Charity has lived her life as an insomniac, and life has been the harder for it. But Charity is older now, and lives a quiet, peaceful life with her golden retriever. Through this story, Charity reminisces about her struggles with insomnia, how she found peace in the silences and loneliness that permeated her nights, and how she found friends in unlikely places. ...
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    9,35 €


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