A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky - format ePub

Joel Hetman Jr. is summoned home because his mother was found dead. The only thing his father saw was an unknown man fleeing their home. The murderer was never found and the crime case turned to a mystery....

Halpin Frayser awakes from a dreamless sleep and the only thing in his mind was the words "Catherine Larue". Frayer feels a shiver down his spine because this was not the first strange thing he had experienced...

Accadde al ponte di Owl Creek è un racconto breve ambientato durante la guerra Civile americana. Un fatto di cronaca, al ponte sull’Owl Creek è del 1891, e ci cala direttamente nel cuore del trauma originario....

La strada al chiaro di luna è un racconto gotico dell’orrore apparso per la prima volta sul cosmopolitan nel 1907. La storia presenta la storia dell’omicidio di una donna dalla prospettiva del figlio,...

Il maestro di Moxon è un racconto breve ma ricco di suggestioni. Protagonisti sono Moxon, inventore e filosofo dilettante, e la sua creatura meccanica: un automa giocatore di scacchi. Lo spunto narrativo parte...

‘100 Quotes by Ambrose Bierce’ is a selection of thoughts, observations, and sayings by one of the most inventive minds of the 19th century. Bierce’s obsession with the preposterousness of death takes...

Prima di partire per il Messico, dal quale non avrebbe fatto ritorno, "Bitter" Bierce lasciò dietro di sé la fama di intransigente critico dei suoi tempi e più di novanta racconti, perfetta espressione...

"The Parenticide Club" features four short-stories about a family murder, as seen from the eye of its most innocent member, who just might be the murderer himself.

In "Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War: Bits of Autobiography," Bierce recounts some of his experiences as a soldier. At the outset of the American Civil War, Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's...

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Dictionary, n: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however,...

"Can Such Things Be?" is a thrillingly creepy collection of short stories from one of the 19th century’s masters of horror. Sit yourself by a campfire or candlelight and enjoy these 24 eerie stories,...

A man named Manton killed his wife and his two children and managed to get away with it. Ten years later he returns to the house where the crime was committed. He is recognized by the locals and he is...

Monk Ambrosius arrives at a rural monastery and the last thing he expects to happen is to be drawn into sympathy with a young girl. Her name is Benedicta, the local hangman’s daughter. Ambrosius is not...

In "Cobwebs from an Empty Skull," Ambrose Bierce offers a compelling collection of satirical essays that deftly critique the absurdities of human existence and societal conventions. Bierce's sharp wit...

El "Diccionario del Diablo" de Ambrose Bierce es una obra singular que combina la crítica mordaz con el ingenio literario, presentando una serie de definiciones ingeniosas y satíricas que cuestionan las...

Si ces épigrammes devaient être gravés sur la tombe d'un monument, ce serait un monument à la liberté... de pensée. Que l'on en juge : "Nous nous soumettons à la majorité parce que nous y sommes tenus....

Ambrose Bierce est un écrivain et journaliste américain, assez peu connu en France. Il est essentiellement connu comme l'auteur du Dictionnaire du Diable et de nouvelles d'humour noir relevant fréquemment...

Ambrose Bierce est un écrivain et journaliste américain, assez peu connu en France. Il est essentiellement connu comme l'auteur du Dictionnaire du Diable et de nouvelles d'humour noir relevant fréquemment...

Anatole France est un écrivain français, considéré comme l'un des plus grands de l'époque de la Troisième République, dont il a également été un des plus importants critiques littéraires. Il devient une...

Anatole France est un écrivain français, considéré comme l'un des plus grands de l'époque de la Troisième République, dont il a également été un des plus importants critiques littéraires. Il devient une...

Parues dans divers recueils américains dans la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle, traduites dans divers volumes chez Grasset à partir de 1957, ces Histoires macabres et flegmatiques de la guerre de Sécession...

Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie d'Ambrose Bierce. L'auteur du "Dictionnaire du diable" est désormais reconnu comme le créateur de la "short story" d'horreur, et à ce titre comme l'initiateur...

Sa participation à la guerre civile américaine le convertit à une forme de scepticisme teinté de misanthropie qui ne fit que se renforcer au fil du temps. Plus tard, son métier de journaliste acheva de...

Corde au cou, pieds et poings liés, et surveillé par une poignée de soldat, un homme contemple la rivière qui coule sous le pont où il va être pendu. Les secondes s'égrènent jusqu'à sa mort inévitable...

400 citations de philosophes méconnus

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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)" is formatted for your...

La versione ebook della fortunata collana Short Stories permette al lettore un'inedita esperienza di lettura, passando dal testo in lingua originale al testo in italiano in un rapido click e ascoltando...

In merely resuming his own the author hopes to be held guiltless by those to whom the work is addressed-enlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet, sense to sentiment, wit to humor and clean English...

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Tales" is a collection of 23 stories by the American author Ambrose Bierce. It consists of some of the author’s best known works such as "An Occurrence at...

Whispers in the MirrorA Paranormal Tale of Haunting Secrets and Unbreakable Family Bonds When Sarah Winters moves her family into the aging Briarwood House, she believes it will be a fresh start—until...

The Mission: Steal a sentient diamond figurineThe Team: a lockpicking squirrel, a larcenous raccoon, a soft-spoken porcupine, and a mage's red panda familiarNo resources? No opposable thumbs? No problem...

Ever wanted to follow a black cat and see where it goes? Well you're in luck. In this collection of reedited and new stories Kevin Densmore (Author of "Leftovers") has collected every one of his stories...

At United Middle School, mysteries aren't just an occasional problem—they're an everyday disaster. When Jake, Emily, Amy, and Max—the school's unofficial mystery squad—team up to solve a string of bizarre...

The Symphony of Absences: An Exploration of Meaning in the IncompleteIn a world that often equates value with presence and completion, "The Symphony of Absences" offers a refreshingly contrarian perspective....

All 51 Hercule Poirot short stories presented in chonological order in a single volume – plus a bonus story not seen for more than 70 years. ‘My name is Hercule Poirot and I am probably the...

Agatha Christie’s seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection. First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding… then the discovery of a corpse in a chest…...

The No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's timeless coming-of-age novella, The Body - set in Castle Rock and originally published in his 1982 short story collection Different Seasons, and adapted into...

This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents of the complete works of Oscar Wilde, containing more than 150 works. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie...

‘No Muggle Prime Minister has ever set foot in the Ministry of Magic, for reasons most succinctly summed up by ex-Minister Dugald McPhail (term of office 1858-1865): “their puir wee braines couldnae cope...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. “In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul...

After studying the Moon card, Madeline blesses Alice and Eliot's upcoming marriage.

Welcome to a world of wisdom, tradition, and life lessons, told through the vibrant voice of the Ndebele people. This book is a collection of 25 Ndebele proverbs—each one a piece of ancient knowledge...

An anonymous tip leads detectives to the bodies of a dozen women in the cellar of an abandoned cabin. The cellar also contains the body of a man killed within the previous thirty-six hours. Who killed...

In the skeletal remains of a world choked by dust and haunted by the ghosts of a fallen civilization, knowledge is a dangerous currency, and survival a brutal daily grind. Sloan, a hardened archivist...

This ebook contains Oscar Wilde's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)...

Can the perfect village save the perfect wedding? INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT FROM A POSTCARD FROM ITALY Cher, the landlady of the Duck & Puddle...

'Sailing away, he survived at sea, then on foreign land, and then by writing - re-living his life, many times, many ways, in English fiction' Neil Rennie, from his preface to The Secret Sharer and Other...

The death of his wife leaves Florian the beekeeper heartbroken. Out of love for him, his bees create a duplicate wife to console him, but this act has unexpected consequences for humans and bees alike.

Being a bodyguard isn't easy, not even when you're the seventh son in a long line of seventh sons, not even when the magic comes when you call—and especially not when the man you are protecting is a treacherous,...

Sherlock Holmes is not only the most famous character in crime fiction, but arguably the most famous character in all fiction. In sixty adventures that pit his extraordinary wits and courage against foreign...

Nick Roberts, author of The Exorcist's House, called Gage, "Arguably the most versatile voice writing today,"  and Gage puts that genre-blending flexibility on full display in this collection of short...

A dark and disturbing ebook original from the master of the crime genre.A famous writer asks a boxman to open an old safe that comes with the mansion he's just bought. It's not as easy a job as he's used...

Three irresistible short stories by the global phenomenon Ali Hazelwood, now available together in paperback for the first time, with an exclusive bonus chapter.Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first,...

Isaac Asimov’s Robot series – from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels – contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the Three...

**Pre-order DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie now!** From the Women's Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun come twelve...

"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath is a haunting exploration of the human psyche. Set against the backdrop of 1950s America, the novel follows Esther Greenwood, a talented and ambitious young woman, as she...

A Machine for Hugs is a collection of tales embracing the everyday strangeness of being alive. These stories explore forgotten avenues and dark corners too weird to ignore. A lone gravedigger's life...

Little girls and their dragons. Ever wonder how your favorite Reverse Harem started? Wanting nothing more but to meet the dragon in the cave, Risa will stop at nothing. Even if that means endearing, it's...

Belinda Middleton is about to lose her job at the county library. Just as she thinks she won't find new work elsewhere, she's invited to interview for a position overseeing a private library. Her meeting...