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1) The Willows
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The Willows is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird...
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While they are discussing the possible illnesses they may have, Jerome, Harris, and George all realize they suffer from the same thing-working too much. Upon the realization, the three best friends decide that they must go on a vacation. After rejecting the ideas of a sea trip or country stay, because Jerome doesn't like the sea, and Harris finds the country to be dull, the men decide on a boat trip. With their bags packed and with the company of...
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a novel by the Scottish author James Hogg, published anonymously in 1824. Considered by turns part-gothic novel, part-psychological mystery, part-metafiction, part-satire, part-case study of totalitarian thought, it can also be thought of as an early example of modern crime fiction, in which the story is told, for the most part, from the point of view of its criminal anti-hero. The action...
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"Es lunes, aunque no importa –podría ser cualquier otro día laborable–. El abogado y propietario de la oficina, por el bien de todos, designa a cada uno de sus subalternos las tareas que hay que resolver. Tres sencillas palabras, pronunciadas por el último empleado contratado, harán que, desde esos despachos, el mundo comience a tambalearse.
Con su «preferiría no hacerlo», Bartleby deja perplejo a todo aquel incapaz de ver más allá de...
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Los monólogos de Ludovico es la segunda novela con que nos sorprende William Castaño-Bedoya. En esta obra, el autor de la también conmovedora Flores para María Sucel, reafirma sus dotes de recreador de la profundidad humana.
Poco a poco, Castaño-Bedoya nos va llevando por el mundo de Ludovico. En un comienzo el lector podrá pensar que se trata de un personaje que se propone mostrarnos su limitado y aburrido mundo, pero en la medida en que el...
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Durante el otoño de 1912, en Praga, escribió Franz Kafka (1883-1924) La metamorfosis, la peripecia subterránea y literal de Gregor Samsa, un viajante de comercio que al despertarse una mañana "de un sueño lleno de pesadillas se encontró en su cama convertido en un bicho enorme". En pocos libros de Kafka queda tan explícito y tan nítido su mundo como en La metamorfosis, en la que el protagonista, convertido en bestia, sumido en la más absoluta...
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It's summer in the little town of Somwärin, Texas, where the most anticipated event is a wrestling match between a man in a bear-suit and a bear in a man-suit. To Ruby Bejou, it looks like just another boring summer. And when Ruby's bored, she makes trouble.
But this year, things are different. Her daddy accidentally starts a cult for long-haul truckers. Her big sister is on a mission to win a cutthroat beauty pageant and won't let anything get...
8) MultiWave
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Short stories that will, ultimately grow long in the telling. For example the longest short story in the history of the Universe is one Helluva BigBang. Question is, was any species actually there to hear it, and more cogently; as this creation / extinction event occurred in the almost total vacuum of space did you hear anything? Or see colours / fireworks? Feel a thrill of frisson? Me, I just slept through it all, but then I was a babygod.
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I'm under constant pressure from working with incompetent people, avoiding repeated calls from America, I'm too scared to take. My life is a multitude of buried emotions, forced by a life shattering event. In my head, under the radar of others, I engage in a glut of unspoken conversations, too abrasive for the real world. If these were to creep out, just slip nonchalantly from my warped mind to my tongue, people around me would recoil in horror and...
10) Gutter Ball
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John's down to the last day on his rent and one whole moldy sandwich to eat. To add insult to injury, somebody left a bowling ball on the kitchen table. John's never seen it before, didn't know how it got there, or what he's supposed to do with it. It has to belong to somebody, and so he sets out to find out who. Maybe he'll pick a job or something to eat along the way, too.
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The Hunting of the Boojum is a 'poetic' sequel to Lewis Carroll's, The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in Eight Fits). In The Hunting of the Snark, a crew of ten unlikely characters, under the direction of the Bellman, pursue their quarry the 'Snark'. They discover, however, that the Snark is actually a 'Boojum' when met by one of their number, the Baker. The Baker is apparently lost in the encounter and there The Hunting of the Snark ends.
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Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas ... Population 2,454. Joe Vaughn, the stalwart chief of the Luna City Police Department, wants to keep that figure at that — if he has anything to say ...But fugitive former celebrity chef, Richard Astor-Hall (formerly Rich Hall, the Bad Boy Chef) now contentedly managing the Luna Café and Coffee — has had a significant person from his past catch up to him.
The seven-year-old son of Richard's assistant...
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David Alexander sets strong and resourceful characters into settings that are simultaneously familiar and bizarre. His stories are everyone's, at least everyone that is paying attention to the continual apocalypse of life and relationship on the cusp of the 21st century. In Haywire Car Alarm Deep In September Night Alexander carries the vision of modern life to hallucinogenic heights and answers the dilemma of dream and reality: Each are so vitally...
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Mal and Loll is the same person; born in a man's body, but always struggling to accept things as they are. Mal pushes herself to the fore and Loll has to take second place in a life of manic schizophrenia and bizarre circumstances. Mal gets cancer but decides to fight to the bitter end with anybody and anything which stands in the way of her pleasure; trouble is it's not the end but the beginning.
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Fairy tale movies and commercials are everywhere. They are very popular. And that's great, because all those fairy tale characters need the work. All the Snow Whites, Three Pigs and a variety of Big Bad Wolves all are clients of the Madre and Gander Employment Agency. That's how Humpty Dumpty finally gets a crack into Show Business.
Madre and Gander is a casting agency where they supply all the fairy tale denizens a film production can ask for. Ethel...
17) Schrödinger
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What happens when you meet yourself? Would you trust what you saw? What happens when you want to leave but you can't find the door? And just who are all these people who like me more than I do? A story of trying to adjust.
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Este libro es fruto de la búsqueda constante de lo irreal, lo incoherente y lo fascinante. Elegantemente, el desquicio y la música de las palabras se encuentran, de manera poco inocente, para mezclar sus colores y cegar a la mismísima oscuridad, desmintiendo los miedos lógicamente ilógicos de lo desconocido, volviendo a la rutina un juego de riesgos reales y nutritivos.
El contenido emocional de esta compilación surge del florecimiento de lo...
19) Skunk Hunt
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Killed in a botched robbery, Skunk McPherson returns to life via a series of letters to his children. In them he plants clues that send Mute, Sweet Tooth and Doubletalk McPherson on a wild hunt for hidden loot, all the while trailed by lovers and ex-lovers, Skunk's old cronies, private detectives, the police and a host of unsuspected relatives. Death and comedy combine in a spectacularly twistedjourney of self-discovery.
20) Oh Stupid Heart
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Carrie Hanson is in love with a different species: Trent, a pampered, uber-rich socialite who's also her boss. Everyone keeps telling her it's a train wreck looking to happen, but her heart wants what it wants. So, despite the billion and one reasons not to, Carrie commits her heart to this inter-species relationship. But while she's off being trained for her new job responsibilities, a beautiful ex-fiancée is working hard to get Trent back and Carrie...
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