Short Stories & Anthologies
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2017-01-24 | Author:Kim Newman

RED JACKS WILD A PRELIMINARY WORD. This story was commissioned by Marvin Kaye at Weird Tales for a prospective series which would pair reprints of classic stories first published in ...
( Category: Short Stories February 28,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Michael Sims [Sims, Michael]

Anonymous In the decades following the 1851 appearance of Charles Dickens’s article “On Duty with Inspector Field,” both real and fictional police detectives became common. Detective fiction grew out of, ...
( Category: Anthologies February 27,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-05-10 | Author:David Szalay

MINISTER’S SECRET LOVE A picture of the minister looking shocked that they found somewhere, archive. Another, on the inside pages, of him looking sad. The stunning brunette, 40, is refusing ...
( Category: Short Stories February 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2002-12-31 | Author:Nikolai Gogol [Gogol, Nikolai]

* The byname of the Dutch painter Gerrit van Honthorst (1590–1656). 7 Noise and commotion filled the Zaporozhian camp. At first nobody could explain how it had come to pass ...
( Category: Short Stories February 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-12 | Author:Rudyard Kipling

Now, the case stands thus. Unthinkingly, I have laid myself open to the charge of aiding and abetting the seal-cutter in obtaining money under false pretences, which is forbidden by ...
( Category: Short Stories February 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-23 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

THE MALTESE CAT They had good reason to be proud, and better reason to be afraid, all twelve of them; for, though they had fought their way, game by game, ...
( Category: British & Irish February 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

‘I KEEP SIX HONEST SERVING-MEN’ I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. ...
( Category: Short Stories February 25,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-07-24 | Author:Sarah Hall

VISITATION Damon Galgut Money had kept everything sweet for the last few years, but now it had all gone wrong. He was in bad trouble, and it was because of ...
( Category: Anthologies February 25,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-01-01 | Author:James Grippando [Grippando, James]

Chapter 32 The deposition of David Kaval ran late, and Jack missed the last flight back to Miami. Motels near the Jacksonville airport were booked, so he took a room ...
( Category: Murder February 25,2017 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2015-03-11 | Author:Murugan, Perumal [Murugan, Perumal]

EIGHTEEN Then came the year when Muthu came in person to invite them for the chariot festival. He was determined to somehow convince his sister and Kali to go. He ...
( Category: Anthologies February 24,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-09-19 | Author:Datlow, Ellen & Kiernan, Caitlin R. & Barron, Laird [Datlow, Ellen]

Who among us has not known a Mr. Doornail? Bernardine held her own wedding ring in her hand, and then she put it around the finger of the bookseller. She ...
( Category: Dark Fantasy February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-21 | Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]

22 Violet I didn’t know what I had been doing teasing Viggo like that. It had to be some form of temporary insanity brought on by sleep deprivation. It hadn’t ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies February 24,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1976-02-14 | Author:George R. R. Martin [Martin, George R. R.]

During the two weeks that followed, De Angelis met with the Blastoff Inn coach regularly to discuss plans and strategy, and supervised a few practice sessions. Hill, meanwhile, was fighting ...
( Category: Anthologies February 24,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois [Martin, George R. R. & Dozois, Gardner]

“As with all nest-fathers,” says Oud, “I instructed Bud on how to more efficiently rid himself of his waste products on waking in the morning and how to use his ...
( Category: Science Fiction February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-23 | Author:Robert Frost

“You mean that’s John’s idea.” “And we live up to it; or I don’t know What childishness he wouldn’t give way to. He manages to keep the upper hand On ...
( Category: Nature February 24,2017 )