Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 1977-01-01 | Author:King, Stephen (as Richard Bachman) [King, Stephen (as Richard Bachman)]

Chapter 22 I was twelve when Mom got me the corduroy suit. By that time Dad had pretty much given up on me and I was my mother's responsibility. I ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-15 | Author:Zweig, Stefan [Zweig, Stefan]

But death was not to be deceived, and broke her laughter. When madame de Prie was found her face was distorted into a terrible grimace. Those dreadful features showed everything ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-07-08 | Author:Hodgson, William Hope [Hodgson, William Hope]

The Stone Ship Rum things!— Of course there are rum things happen at sea— As rum as ever there were. I remember when I was in the Alfred Jessop, a ...
( Category: Fantasy November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1889-01-01 | Author:Twain, Mark [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER XXIV. A Rival Magician. MY influence in the Valley of Holiness was something prodigious now. It seemed worth while to try to turn it to some valuable account. The ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1908-01-01 | Author:Wharton, Edith [Wharton, Edith]

II. WHEN, PUNCTUALLY AT TEN minutes to seven, her husband had emerged from the house, Margaret Ransom remained seated in her bedroom, addressing herself anew to the difficult process of ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Piccirilli, Tom [Piccirilli, Tom]

THAT IMMENSE BRAIN IS TWO-THIRDS WRATH NOW, unbalanced as neurotransmitters slither and slosh and Cole’s love diminishes in the misfiring synapses of heartbreak and rage. Sebastian is bitter and Jonah ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |por | 1950-01-16 | Author:Bradbury, Ray [Bradbury, Ray]

2004-05: THE NAMING OF NAMES They came to the strange blue lands and put their names upon the lands. Here was Hinkston Creek and Lustig Corners and Black River and ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1986-11-01 | Author:Barker, Clive [Barker, Clive]

The man with the white tie had not bided his time. Almost as soon as he set eyes on Julia he came across to her. She decided, even as he ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-18 | Author:Aesop [Aesop]

Quality, not quantity. 115. THE VIPER AND THE FILE A viper entered a carpenter’s shop, and went from one to another of the tools, begging for something to eat. Among ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Hodgson, William Hope [Hodgson, William Hope]

The Room of Fear 1 Willie Johnson lay in the big bed very quiet and rigid. He had that day come upon his eighth birthday, and in consequence thereof—beginning to ...
( Category: Fantasy November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-02 | Author:Carrington, Leonora [Carrington, Leonora]

(1937-40) WHITE RABBITS The time has come that I must tell the events which began in 40 Pest Street. The houses, which were reddish black, looked as if they had ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1798-01-21 | Author:Brown, Charles Brockden [Brown, Charles Brockden]

CHAPTER XXII. The inhabitants of the Hut received me with a mixture of joy and surprize. Their homely welcome, and their artless sympathy, were grateful to my feelings. In the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1920-01-01 | Author:Lewis, Sinclair [Lewis, Sinclair]

II She disliked “The Girl from Kankakee” even more than she had expected. It narrated the success of a farm-lassie in clearing her brother of a charge of forgery. She ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1853-01-01 | Author:Bronte, Charlotte [Bronte, Charlotte]

And had there been anything in the garret? What did they discover? I believe, on the closest examination, their discoveries amounted to very little. They talked, at first, of the ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1895-01-01 | Author:Wells, H. G. [Wells, H. G.]

VII The Unveiling of the Stranger THE STRANGER WENT INTO the little parlour of the Coach and Horses about half-past five in the morning, and there he remained until near ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )