Literary
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-08-10 | Author:Thomas Ligotti [Ligotti, Thomas]

II I am an offspring of the dead. I am descended from the deceased. I am the progeny of phantoms. My ancestors are the illustrious multitudes of the defunct, grand ...
( Category: Occult March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Janet Hepburn [Hepburn, Janet]

10 We settle into the cushioned seats until the sound of someone pounding on the hood of the car startles us. It’s Rayne. He has Shadow in his arms. “Look ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1991-10-29 | Author:Gustav Meyrink [Meyrink, Gustav]

“No, Eva”, Hauberrisser broke in quickly, “you are wrong. I know what you are afraid I might say. You don’t want to hear me tell you what my feelings for ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1995-11-01 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

4 By eleven o’lock the snow was falling heavily in big, soft puffs and the sky was not visible at all. People were scurrying through the falling snow, and snow ...
( Category: War March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Silas House [House, Silas]

Fourteen For a long time I denied it to myself. I imagined that they were still right over there on Redbud. In the evenings I pictured them all setting out ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-06-13 | Author:Mordecai Richler [Richler, Mordecai]

Carlos smiled enticingly at him. He was short and dark and he stank of eau de cologne and cognac. His dyed black hair was greased down to his oblong skull ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-20 | Author:William Attaway

Big Mat could hear Anna’s laugh when he mounted the stoop. Then he heard Chinatown’s high voice singing snatches of mill songs. He listened awhile before he opened the door. ...
( Category: African American March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Henry James [James, Henry]

VIII WHEN, ON COMING HOME THE EVENING AFTER his father had made the acquaintance of the Dossons, Gaston went into the room in which the old man habitually sat, Mr. ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-15 | Author:Jeremy Robinson [Robinson, Jeremy]

27 The shouting stopped ten minutes ago. But it didn’t end like normal, which would have been slamming doors. It just...stopped. Suddenly. Mid-shout. I weep for several minutes, clutching my ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Patricia Wentworth [Wentworth, Patricia]

TWENTY-TWO ABOUT A QUARTER of an hour later Miss Silver emerged from her own room and descended the stairs. There was no one in the hall, but just as she ...
( Category: Amateur Sleuths March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:R. K. Narayan

A SHADOW Sambu demanded, ‘You must give me four annas to see the film tomorrow.’ His mother was horrified. How could this boy! She had been dreading for six months ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-06 | Author:Regina Jeffers

On the third day of their meetings, Darcy found Wickham made a more presentable appearance; he abandoned his previous unkempt look, and he spent time with his ablutions. The tavern ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-24 | Author:Nevil Shute [Shute, Nevil]

He pressed on over the wide, open, treeless country. The moon was bright now; he could see the country almost as well as in daylight. The road wound on over ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Thomas King [King, Thomas]

When I wake up, Monroe is gone. So is the truck. The buffalo are still standing on the prairies, and for a moment, they look just like the buffalo on ...
( Category: Domestic Life March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Brenda Wineapple [Wineapple, Brenda]

CHAPTER TWENTY This Farther Flight And England, the land of my ancestors! Once I had fancied that my sleep would not be quiet in the grave until I should return, ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )