Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 2009-07-16 | Author:Wood, Simon [Wood, Simon]

ACCEPTABLE LOSSES The landing craft bobbed clumsily on the waves. The damned things were so unstable when they didn’t have a full accompaniment of men to act as ballast. Captain ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 27,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-19 | Author:Burke, Kealan Patrick [Burke, Kealan Patrick]

* * * "Stephanie?" He had brought her clothes, gripping them in a fist that wanted to tremble, to touch her, to help her, but when he offered them to ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 27,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Cummings, Shane Jiraiya [Cummings, Shane Jiraiya]

Miri huddled on a doorstep in the first alley that led her from the lights of Exeter Street. She cupped her head in her hands and fought back tears. Goosebumps ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 27,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1989-09-27 | Author:H.P. Lovecraft [Lovecraft, H. P.]

II. Later, in the utter blackness of the great arched cellar, Jones cursed the childish naiveté which had brought him there. For the first half-hour he had kept flashing on ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-09-27 | Author:H.P. Lovecraft [Lovecraft, H. P.]

II Arthur Jermyn was the son of Sir Alfred Jermyn and a music-hall singer of unknown origin. When the husband and father deserted his family, the mother took the child ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 27,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-10-29 | Author:H.P. Lovecraft

The Haunter Of The Dark (DEDICATED TO ROBERT BLOCH) I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the dark planets roll without aim— Where they roll in their horror unheeded, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 27,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-30 | Author:Courtney Milan [Milan, Courtney]

CHAPTER FOUR LAVINIA’S BROTHER, William thought wryly, was a thin spike of a boy. Attach a sufficient quantity of straw to his head, and he’d have made a passable broom. ...
( Category: Historical September 27,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-09-30 | Author:Mary Balogh, Nicola Cornick; Courtney Milan

SHE HAD BEEN KISSED for the first time. Thoroughly, expertly, ruthlessly kissed by a man who was a thorough, ruthless expert. She knew she should feel shocked or offended or ...
( Category: Historical September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matt Dymerski

[end of file] **** “Come Closer” I'd actually seen him on our way home from school. He looked dirty and disturbed, and stared straight at us as our bus went ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-16 | Author:E.E. 'Doc' Smith [Smith, E.E. 'Doc']

CHAPTER XII The Mastery of Mind Over Matter They descended rapidly, directly over a large and imposing city in the middle of a vast, level, beautifully-planted plain. While they were ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 27,2017 )
epub | | 2010-02-16 | Author:E.E. 'Doc' Smith [Smith, E.E. 'Doc']

CHAPTER 6 Since the tests took much time, and were strictly routine in nature, there is no need to go into them in detail. At their conclusion, Garlock said: "First: ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-30 | Author:Francis, Dick [Dick, Francis,]

To justify that little lot he ordered a second double bourbon from the air hostess and lifted it in a silent good-luck gesture to a man sleeping across the aisle, ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-30 | Author:Francis, Dick [Dick, Francis,]

Letter from the University of Eastern California selection board to Jonathan Derry. London October 20th Dear Mr Derry, Subsequent to your interview in London last week, we have pleasure in ...
( Category: Mystery September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-26 | Author:Short story collection

CHAPTER NINE THE DEAD HARLEQUIN MR. SATTERTHWAITE walked slowly up Bond Street enjoying the sunshine. He was, as usual, carefully and beautifully [ dressed, and was bound for the Harchester ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-26 | Author:Partners in crime (Short stories)

14. THE CRACKLER (continued) Making the acquaintance of the Laidlaws proved an easy affair. Tommy and Tuppence, young, well dressed, eager for life and with apparently money to burn, were ...
( Category: Mystery September 27,2017 )