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Rayne Hall, Douglas Kolacki, Jonathan Broughton, Pamela Turner, Larisa Walk, Mark Cassell, L.L. Phelps, Wakefield Mahon, Candy Korman, William Meikle

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Ten Tales Fantasy & Horror Stories

Ten exciting stories - frightening, thoughtful and funny - about dragons by ten authors, edited by Rayne Hall.Wherever humans live, they tell stories of dragons.Cultures on every continent in every era have dragon myths and dragon art – from the Mesopotamian creation myth of the dragon Tiamat around 5,000 BCE to Fafnir in the Icelandic Volsungasaga, and Saint George and Saint Michael slaying dragons in early medieval legends. In China, pictures of dragons date back as far a...

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Rayne Hall, Jonathan Broughton, William Meikle, Tracie McBride, Liv Rancourt, Grayson Bray Morris, Donna Johnson, Pamela Turner, Deborah J. Ross, Deborah Wheeler, Karen Heard

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Ten Tales Fantasy & Horror Stories

Ten stories of spine-tingling suspense, edited by Rayne Hall.In this collection, you'll find scary stories for almost every taste, each penned by a different author with a different writing style and a different taste in horror. This allows you to explore your own preferences. Which story gives you the most delicious frights?The authors have played with "What if" scenarios: What if the safe world we take for granted is changing and we don't know? What if a seemingly harmles...

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Jonathan Swift, Matthew Broughton

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Arthur Darvill, Full Cast

Jonathan Swift's classic satire, in a brand new dramatisation starring Arthur Darvill (Rory from BBC Television's Doctor Who)Gulliver is shipwrecked on the Island of Lilliput where the natives are tiny people living in a miniature society. With his unique overview of this realm, Gulliver discovers a world of petty politics and small minds. Coerced into a war between two nations who disagree on the best way to eat boiled eggs, Gulliver finds himself betrayed by frie...

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Rayne Hall, Carole Ann Moleti, Grayson Bray Morris, Jonathan Broughton, April Grey, Douglas Kolacki, William Meikle

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Ten Tales Fantasy & Horror Stories

Exciting, spooky and scary stories for everyone, edited by Rayne Hall.Ten authors spin creepy yarns, each with a different writing style and a different way of telling a story. Allow these fantasy and horror stories to haunt you, and see which story resonates most with you.GHOSTS CAN BLEED by Tracie McBrideGhosts can bleed. Maurice knows, because he is one.DANCERS by William MeikleA country graveyard in winter can be made warm.BREAKWA...

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Matthew Broughton

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Jonathan Forbes, Full Cast, Olivia Poulet

The final series of the conspiracy thrillerDr Helen Ash is coming to terms with the fact she has just 9 months to live, when she's emailed a video of a boat mysteriously sinking in stormy seas. And the email is from her dead father.As she and Freddy try to find out whether the sunken ship really exists, they realise that they are being followed. And disaster awaits...A gripping thriller, Tracks has won multiple awards including Best Sound (...

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Leo Tolstoy, Richard F. Gustafson

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Kevin R. Free, George Guidall, T. Ryder Smith, Suzanne Toren

This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group they are representative of his style, and touch on the central themes that surface in War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Stories as different as "The Snowstorm", "Lucerne", "The Diary of a Madman", and "The Devil" are grounded in autobiographical experience. They deal with journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious thought that characterizes Tolstoy's w...

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Anton Chekhov

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Adam Grupper, T. Ryder Smith, Henry Strozier

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Rosamund Bartlett

Raymond Carver called Anton Chekhov 'the greatest short story writer who has ever lived.' This unequivocal verdict on Chekhov's genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, John Cheever and Tobias Wolf. While his popularity as a playwright has sometimes overshadowed his achievements in prose, the importance of Chekhov's stories is now recognized by readers as well as by fellow authors. Their themes--alienation, the absurdity and tragedy ...

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Paula Guran

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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror

Macabre meetings, sinister excursions, and deadly relationships; uncanny encounters; a classic ghost story featuring an American god; a historical murderer revived in a frightening new iteration; innovative Lovecraftian turns; shadowy fairy tales and weird myths; strange children, the unexpected, the supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real . . . tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while invent...

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James Patterson, Emily Raymond

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Witch & Wizard

Whit and Wisty explore the nature of power in the final, explosive conclusion to the bestselling Witch & Wizard saga.Whit and Wisty Allgood have fought and defeated their world's most pernicious threats: the evil dictator, The One Who Is The One, as well as his wicked father and son. But just as the heroic witch and wizard start to settle into their new roles in governance, a deadly crime wave grips their city, with all signs pointing to a magical mastermind every ...

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Marie Rutkoski

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The Winner's Trilogy

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Winner's Trilogy comes Marie Rutkoski's Tor.Com Original short story, "The Bridge of Snow."Here readers are introduced to Arin during more innocent times. In his childhood, before the war, there was still time to tell stories.This story is set in the same world of the author's stunning YA trilogy, which begins with book one, The Winner's Curse.At the Publisher's request, this title ...

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Sharon Lee

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Archers Beach

Archers Beach is a more-than-slightly battered resort town on the coast of Maine, but there's something a little bit special about it. Magic works there, sort-of, and the trenvay--the beings that guard the land and the people--work their own kind of enchantment. Includes two short stories, "The Gift of Music," and "The night don't seem so lonely." Both stories were previously published at Baen.com

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Ellen Datlow

Lock your doors, hide under your covers, and prepare to be terrified by this bone-chilling anthology of twenty-nine all-original tales about monsters from legendary horror editor Ellen Datlow.**WINNER of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology!A Shirley Jackson and Locus Award Finalist! A World Fantasy Award Nominee!**In Screams from the Dark, award-winning and up-and-coming authors like Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw...