Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies – by constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions and motifs, Camilla Grudova has built a universe that's highly imaginative, incredibly original, and absolutely discomfiting. The stories in <i>The Doll's Alphabet</i> are by turns childlike and naive, grotesque and very dark, the marriage of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter. ...
Teenagers philosophize on the nature of ontology, while fearing there's a ghost in the old mill they're stuck in; anxieties over finitude and terrorism are scrutinized; a man encounters an old friend in the unlikeliest of places; nineteenth-century inventor Sigismund Mohr is vividly brought back from obscurity; and two journalists travel to Kenya for a conference, where one of them has a paranoid breakdown. [i]It Is an Honest Ghost is ...
In the stories of Mad Hope, Heather Birrell finds the heart of her characters and lets them lead us into worlds both unrecognizable and alarming. We think we know these people but discover we don't—they are more alive, more real, and more complex than we first imagined. A high school science teacher is forced to re-examine the role he played in Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania after a student makes a shocking request. The uncertai ...
One stormy night in 1826, just north of Galveston Bay, Old Bull, a Cheyenne Indian who had just seen the ocean for the first time, found himself trying to outrace a hurricane. Lifted from his horse, spun around, and thrown down in the bayou, Old Bull rode the current into a small canyon, and survived. He was the only one of his party to return from the expedition, arriving home nearly naked, nearly hallucinating, riding a horse.<br><br& ...
This volume includes the novels «By the Balls,» «Five Shots and a Funeral,» along with brand-new short stories and other bonus materials. This is a reissue of an underground crime-fiction cult classic with a lot of new materials. Pascoe is an Emmy Award-winning writer and artist. Extensive online/social media campaign Advance reader copies available 6 months before publication. ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE COLLECTION – 3 NOVELS AND 25 SHORT STORIES<br><br><br>WHAT'S INCLUDED:<br><br>NOVELS<br><br>The Mysterious Affair At Styles<br>The Secret Adversary<br>The Murder On The Links<br><br>SHORT STORIES<br><br>The Affair At The Victory Ball<br>The Curious Disappearance Of The Opalsen Pearls<br>The Adventure Of The King Of Clubs<br>The ...
WINNER OF THE 15 BYTES BOOK AWARD"David Kranes uses language like a knife and the worlds in his stories come off the page."—RON CARLSON, author of The Signal The stories in The Legend's Daughter inhabit present–day Idaho where fires, streams, and landscapes ask—even demand—that individuals reconsider and reorient their lives. An award–winning playwright, David Kranes infuses this collec ...
We love ghost stories here at Wildside Press. If you've read the first 3 volumes in the Ghost Story MEGAPACK™ series, plus The Macabre MEGAPACK™ series, you’re pretty well caught up with the classic supernatural fiction we've been reading lately. Don't worry, though – we'll keep digging for more classic horror tales!<P> Included in this volume are:<P> THE FOUR-FIFTEEN EXPRESS, by Amelia B. Edwards<BR> THR ...
